OK, hopefully someone here can help me out. I use LR as my DAM (aperture won't open sRAWs so it's not even an option) and CS4 to add my watermark and border to my images before they go to my website... I just moved from a PC to an iMac and so far so good, but I'm having an issue with LR2 when I export...
Typically I go through one days images at a time, "develop" then export, then go right into the next day while LR2 is exporting. The export opens CS4 and runs an action on the images I've made. On my PC, it would open CS4 in the background and do it's thing. You'd only notice it if you looked at the taskbar or if you noticed the computer slowing a bit, but the computer would let you keep doing your thing in LR.... Well on the iMac, as soon as CS4 opens to run the action on the first, it brings me to CS4...... Well I don't need to even see photoshop, I want it to quietly handle it's business in the background. Did I miss a setting somewhere? Right now it's really annoying, and even on clicking back on LR, it will still go back to CS4 as it opens another file from the batch for the first two images....
My walk around has been to go through the entire weeks images, edit them ALL in LR as a giant batch, then to export all 7 days at once. While this works, it means I'm waiting a bit longer at the end because instead of it doing most of the batch in the background, the walkaround means it's doing it all once I'm done which wastes time.....
Hopefully someone here knows of a magical setting I missed.
Thanks,
Ben
Typically I go through one days images at a time, "develop" then export, then go right into the next day while LR2 is exporting. The export opens CS4 and runs an action on the images I've made. On my PC, it would open CS4 in the background and do it's thing. You'd only notice it if you looked at the taskbar or if you noticed the computer slowing a bit, but the computer would let you keep doing your thing in LR.... Well on the iMac, as soon as CS4 opens to run the action on the first, it brings me to CS4...... Well I don't need to even see photoshop, I want it to quietly handle it's business in the background. Did I miss a setting somewhere? Right now it's really annoying, and even on clicking back on LR, it will still go back to CS4 as it opens another file from the batch for the first two images....
My walk around has been to go through the entire weeks images, edit them ALL in LR as a giant batch, then to export all 7 days at once. While this works, it means I'm waiting a bit longer at the end because instead of it doing most of the batch in the background, the walkaround means it's doing it all once I'm done which wastes time.....
Hopefully someone here knows of a magical setting I missed.
Thanks,
Ben