Polaroid D&S Mac Issue

[Ken Fournelle]

I was following Gary Richardson's solution to remove the red blotches on this picture. It worked as he directed.

However, when I have tried to use Polaroid D&S on a layer, I get only a partial view in the dialog window--see attachment.

Currently, it resides in the CS2 plug in folder and is listed in Filters.

For the blotch problem, I did as Gary did: Copied the red channel as an Alpha channel and applied Polaroid; and it worked fine. But when I try to use it in a Layer, when there are multiple layers, it gives me the "half" window.

Any thoughts?

K

[Gary Richardson]

Hi Ken, can't really help you here, except to add that it could be a Mac or a CS2 issue, as I'm using PS7 on a PC.

Have tried using filter on both Alpha Channel and on Red Channel directly, with no problems.

Hope another Mac or CS2 user will have some help for you.

[Caitlin]

I can't get the Polaroid filter to work in Win XP CS2 at all. (Well it stalls 1/3rd way)

[winwintoo]

I don't have the filter you're talking about, but I am a Mac user. If the problem is that you only see part of the image in the dialog and you'd like to see other parts of the image to better judge how your settings are working, try moving your cursor to the middle of the partial image in the dialog window - it will likely turn into a hand and then you can use the cursor to move the image around.

Hope this helps, Margaret

[Ken Fournelle]

Margaret,

That doesn't work either. The hand is there, but it doesn't effect anything.
I currently have CS2, and it would have the same problem with CS. I tried contacting Polaroid to no avail.

thanks,

k

[WendyW]

I'm a Mac user and I can't get it to work on layers ... only on the background layer. Tried in in PSE2, PS7 and CS.

To get round that I make sure I have no background layer then I click on the layer I wanted to use D&S on and do Layer>New>Layer from Background ... it makes it into the background layer and the filter can then be applied to it.

Seems to work OK for me

Wendy

[Ken Fournelle]

Well thank you Wendy, I thought I was the only one having this problem.
I have tried to contact Polaroid several times, but nothing. I will try your method.

k

[Ken Fournelle]

Wendy,

I am missing something from your Polaroid work around method. Do you mean you click off the background layer when you say "I make sure I have no background layer...."? Sorry.

Can you post a screen shot(s) of what you mean.

k

[WendyW]

Ken ...

I'm sure that I originally read about the problem on this forum ... certainly it has done this since I first got the filter and I think that may have been on OS9.

I found the workaround by accident ... its a bit clumsy but it seems to work OK

I really thought that D&S worked this way for everyone ... its a bit of a surprise to find out that it doesn't.

Wendy

[Ken Fournelle]

Wendy,

I am working from the Plugin, are you working directly from the Application?

k

[WendyW]

Ken ...

If the image already has a layer called Background you need to rename it to something else ... as when you continue with Layer>New>Layer from Background you are actually creating a new background layer.

I'm not sure what would happen if you already had one ... so I simply rename it if there is already one.

Let me know if it works OK on your Mac

Wendy

[Ken Fournelle]

Thanks Wendy. I'll give it a try.

k

[WendyW]

Ken,

I'm working from the Plug in too


Wendy

[Kraellin]

you can also do a control-c and then control-v to make a separate image of that layer. run the filter on it and then paste it back to the original as a new layer. i do this in psp regularly when i want to test filters and masks. a number of my filters dont show correctly when applied to a layer and particularly to a masked layer.

also, having just gotten the polaroid d&s app/plugin, i'm using it currently as a stand-alone program and i found out the hard way that once you have run the detect and clean routines, you cant 'save as', you can only save. thus, if like me, you NEVER want to overwrite your original images, make sure you make a copy of the original before running this program/filter.

great program otherwise. does a bang up job!

Craig