Since upgrading computers to ones running OSX, I and my father, a retired yet borderline professional photographer, have appreciated the OS's ability to display image files as thumbnails in a directory.
However, we've stumbled across a problem that neither Apple nor Canon seem able to figure out:
He recently purchased a Canon 1DS Mark II. The Raw format was, until the past few days, incompatable with Adobe's Raw Filter in Photoshop. It came with it's own image browser, that my dad was using to convert images to TIFF before editing in Photoshop. His procedure has always been to save images to the desktop (I think it's silly, but you try retraining a 73 year old man!). With other files, including ones from photoshop, all images would have a thumbnail preview as the icon.
Not with the 1DS - just a generic image icon. The application that came with the 1DS even has a option to "create thumbnail and save" but that doesn't appear to do anything. He can open the file with Photoshop and re-save it, which results in a thumbnail icon. This is the source of confusion for me:
I'm not sure whether OS X creates image thumbnails or not (I thought it did). The other os'es I use create them without requiring an external app to do anything - I'm speaking of the window managers in linux (KDE and gnome) and Windows 2000. I thought OS X did the same.
Any explanation would be appreciated. Canon and Apple keep blaming each other when he calls ;-D
He's running a Dual 1.8 G5 with Panther (10.3.6 at the moment).
However, we've stumbled across a problem that neither Apple nor Canon seem able to figure out:
He recently purchased a Canon 1DS Mark II. The Raw format was, until the past few days, incompatable with Adobe's Raw Filter in Photoshop. It came with it's own image browser, that my dad was using to convert images to TIFF before editing in Photoshop. His procedure has always been to save images to the desktop (I think it's silly, but you try retraining a 73 year old man!). With other files, including ones from photoshop, all images would have a thumbnail preview as the icon.
Not with the 1DS - just a generic image icon. The application that came with the 1DS even has a option to "create thumbnail and save" but that doesn't appear to do anything. He can open the file with Photoshop and re-save it, which results in a thumbnail icon. This is the source of confusion for me:
I'm not sure whether OS X creates image thumbnails or not (I thought it did). The other os'es I use create them without requiring an external app to do anything - I'm speaking of the window managers in linux (KDE and gnome) and Windows 2000. I thought OS X did the same.
Any explanation would be appreciated. Canon and Apple keep blaming each other when he calls ;-D
He's running a Dual 1.8 G5 with Panther (10.3.6 at the moment).