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Snow Goose landing, early morning light, Bosque del Apache NWR, San Antonio, NW. From the recently concluded Bosque IPT. This image was created on the morning of 11\/18\/2011 with the tripod-mounted Canon 800mm f\/5.6L IS lens<\/a> and the EOS-1D Mark IV<\/a>. ISO 640. Evaluative metering +1 1\/3 stops off the low blue sky: 1\/1000 sec. at f\/5.6 set manually. <\/p>\n

Central Sensor\/AI Servo Rear Focus active at the moment of exposure. Click here<\/a> if you missed the Rear Focus Tutorial. Lens\/camera body Micro-adjustment<\/a>: +2. For a greater appreciation of the image, click on the photo. Then click on the enlarged version to close it.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

Photoshop CS 5 Twilight Zone?<\/h3>\n

About halfway through the Bosque IPT Photoshop CS-5 started acting strangely. The first thing that I noticed was that when I brought an image into CS-5 to convert it in ACR (Adobe Camera RAW) it looked hazy, dull, and flat and the color looked way off. Some images looked so bad that I simply went started over and converted them in BreezeBrowser. With others I spent 10 minutes adjusting the sliders in an effort to get the image to look right…. That process (as described in detail in Digital Basics<\/a>) usually takes 10 seconds…. I soon noticed that all of my keyboard shortcuts, both Tools and Applications, had disappeared. One by one I re-keyed each of them. But the problem with the ACR conversions persisted. Robert O’Toole took a crack at it on the IPT to no avail…. <\/p>\n

Mystery Solved!<\/h3>\n

Last night I called old friend and Photoshop expert Ellen Anon. She spent 30 minutes with me trying to solve the problem. Also without success. Finally she said, “CS-5 somehow became corrupted; you need to delete all of your preferences and start from scratch. Here’s how you do that:<\/p>\n