Vista in Action

[jtsull]

Ok, regardless of what I said about Vista in March, I noticed there semed to be enough drivers to setup a decent Vista system so I took the plunge.
Built a nice Core 2 Dual computer with a good graphics card. Loaded VISTA, then went out to all the seperate websites to download the latest Vista drivers for each. I'm up and running. Other than two problems with Photoshop, I must say "up and running flawlessly". Including the new Canon EOS utility for Vista. The two problems I had/have with CS2 were repeated registation popup. (Adobe has a fix for that) and having Vista popup a box telling you it can't recognize CS2 EVERYTIME you run it. Can't find a fix for that one. Adobe does not seem to address that one - just upgrade to CS3. Not sure if CS3 is Vista friendly. Anyone try it yet on a Vista system? Jeff??

[DianeR]

CS3 running just fine on Vista Home Premium. No hiccups at all. The ONLY thing that irks me is that you cannot view .psd thumbnails in Windows -- you have to use Bridge, Thumbs Plus etc., to view them. See Computer Corner thread on issue.

[Ron Lacey]

CS3 running just fine on Vista Home Premium. No hiccups at all. The ONLY thing that irks me is that you cannot view .psd thumbnails in Windows -- you have to use Bridge, Thumbs Plus etc., to view them. See Computer Corner thread on issue.

Have you tried looking for a shell extension? This one claims to work for CS2 PSD files, I don't have Vista so I couldn't try it out.

http://www.aeonity.com/david/adobe-photoshop-cs2-thumbnails-psd-file-in-windows-explorer

BTW do you know if the MS RAW Viewer works in Vista?

Ron

[DianeR]

Can't help you there Ron - never used it. I have downloaded the file you linked to but need to know if someone who uses Vista and CS3 has used it and that it works. Don't want to be the "tester" on this one. :wacko:

[Jeff JTPhoto]

Yup, CS3 runs flawless on Vista. It runs better AAMOF then CS2 did on my XP machine. CS3 also runs very well with XP. James, before Adobe sent me my CS3 I installed CS2 on my Vista machine and had the same issues with the registration pop-up and recognition. CS3 was designed to run on Vista so I'm told.

As far as thumbnails in the Vista, Windows viewer Ron. I'll have to check again but I believe the PSD files still only come up as an icon.

[stilllearning]

You have more courage than me. I'll probably run my machine with XP till the wheels fall off. :biglaugh:

[Ron Lacey]

As far as thumbnails in the Vista, Windows viewer Ron. I'll have to check again but I believe the PSD files still only come up as an icon.

For XP Microsoft provided a shell extension for Canon RAW files as well as a RAW viewer along the lines of the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer. It didn't come with Windows but you could download it free from the MS site. I just wondered if there was one for Vista or if MS had a new one.

Viewing PSD files in Windows was via a shell extension from Adobe which was part of the PS CS 1 installation but they never included a shell extension with CS2 though some third party ones like the one I linked to were written.

Ron

[andreasb]

The Raw viewer is built into Vista. Both Canon and Nikon have written drivers for it. I use the Nikon one and it works well. The issue is that it seems a bit slow at first but the reason for it is that Vista is reindexing the content. Once that is done it works reasonably fast.

As for Vista and speed, try getting a fast 4 GB USB drive (I bought Lexar Lightning ) and use it as a fast swapfile, called Readyboost. When you stick it in you will get the option of using it as that. Makes huge difference using Nikon capture, and other apps are faster too. you can read more about it here (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/features/details/readyboost.mspx)..

Overall I have been using Vista for a long time now during the beta and before it was in Beta. It is safe to say there is more then meets the eye. There are a lot of chnages under the hood that will benefit us for a long time. Some of the chnages wont have immideate ramifications for us, but will come gradually. For instance when Directx 10 cards are cheap an prevalent and Say PS CS4 (?) is out and works with Directx10 there is likley to be a huge speed increase in handling multilpe graphics files in real time.

As for Vista as they say the best is yet to come! The only issue I have had so far was Skype causing a so called DEP error, easily fixed when I started searching Skypes knowledgebase....