Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Removing the scan lines from a matt surface photo in photoshop.

You need the Fourier transformation plugin for photoshop.

Link to plugin and how to install it:
http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/software/33084-here-fft-64-bit-photoshop-2.html

Tutorial 1 on using plugin
http://retouchpro.com/tutorials/?m=show&id=185

Tuorial 2 on how to blend the two images mentioned in tutorial 1
http://my.safaribooksonline.com/book/photo-and-graphic-manipulation/9780470612651/work-with-layers-selections-and-masks/automatically_blend_multiple_images_to_g

Friday, December 30, 2011

No tasks are available on this page - Device Stage Message

On connecting the camera, explorer window does not open to show folders and files of the camera. Instead error message displays " No tasks are available on this page"

Solution:
Open regedit and navigate to the key shown:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\AutoplayHandlers\KnownDevices\
The various device handler keys are shown as subkeys like this.
WpdDeviceHandler_USB#VID_04A9&PID_3225#6BCD465182F24AC1A78A78B27F590724

Click on the key and check the name of the device in the right hand pane

Select the camera in question

Double click on its DWord value named DXPDeviceCPLDefault

Change value data to 1

Disconnect camera and reboot.

Connect camera and autoplay options will now open.. Choose Open files in Explorer.
Check the box labelled : Always do this action.