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Happy birthday, Photoshop and Lightroom! “Is today, February 19th, ‘The Most Important Date In Digital Imaging History (Via John Nack on Adobe.)

It’s funny on Photoshop’s birthday, I find myself struggling to get mine to run. You see I just swapped out my original MacBook for a MacBook Pro. Since then, I first couldn’t get Save for Web to come up in Photoshop. I finally figured out it was a possibly corrupted preference file. Then in debugging this, I reinstalled Photoshop and a few other apps in the suite. They worked fine until I decided to run the updater. Now when I try to open a document in any app, it crashes spectacularly. Now I’m deleting, reinstalling everything, and now trying to reinstall again to see if I can get everything working for me. Ugh.

Update: So it turned out to be a comedy of errors (but not really funny). I swapped out my original MacBook for an extra MacBook Pro someone traded out at work. So I did a Time Machine brain transplant to the new (old) MacBook Pro.

The migration seemed to go okay until I tried to do some work over the weekend and realized the Save for Web window wouldn’t open up. The UI would dim like it was going to work but then nothing. I tried to reinstall Photoshop but that didn’t help. Continue reading ‘Happy birthday, Photoshop and Lightroom!’