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Subject: [Leica] Lightroom2/PS CS3/Alien Skin Glitch?
From: douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp)
Date: Tue Sep 23 07:57:21 2008
References: <30db39f20809230715r7cf302b0h98194d69e1c51477@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Bob,
Make sure your image is not saved in Grayscale format - assign it an 
sRGB or RGB profile in CS3, even though it's BW. I reckon it should work 
then.
Cheers
Douglas

Robert D. Baron wrote:
> I've run this by the Adobe Lightroom Forum and Alien Skin Support
> without a solution so I thought I'd try it here, since I know there
> are at least a few regular users of these programs in attendance:
>
> Lightroom 2 has a really nifty feature called Adjustment Brush, which
> lets you make local (as opposed to global) corrections such as
> exposure and so on to specific parts of an image.
>
> I work on a raw image in Lightroom 2 and fiddle with it (crop, adjust
> exposure etc) and then open it in Photoshop CS3 where I use Alien Skin
> Exposure 2 to convert it to b&w. I then flatten the layers, save it as
> a .tif, and re-open it in Lightroom.  At this point I can still make
> global corrections (exposure etc) but the local Adjustment Brush
> doesn't work.
>
> Alien Skin must be doing something to the image.  If I go LR->PS->LR
> without using Alien Skin I don't have this issue.
>
> When something like this occurs to me I usually assume it is operator
> error but I can't figure out what it might be.
>
> If anyone has  a suggestion I'd appreciate it.
>
> --Bob
>
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