Software woes...WARNING, Apple related technobabble abounds
I had been putting off upgrading my laptop to OSX Lion for a few months because I knew the version of Photoshop Elements I've been using was not compatible. And if I was going to buy another photo-editing program from Abobe, I wanted it to be full blown Photoshop. But I just couldn't justify spending spending over $600 on a program that I would use primarily for making icons. I searched around trying to find CS5 on sale somewhere, but all I managed to find was the educational discount that I do not qualify for because I am not a student nor a teach and no longer work for an educational institution.
At that point, I put the idea on the back burner because Snow Leopard has served me well and I had no pressing need to upgrade to Lion. Cue arrival of my shiny new iphone 4s with its shiny new 8 megapixel camera and the shiny new icloud that allows you to sync photos and all sorts of other things from your iOS5 devise to your computer, all done through the internet without the need for cables....in theory. While music and apps I downloaded on my phone showed up in itunes on my MacBookPro, there was no syncing of my iphone's photostream with my iphoto library. I did a little bit of digging, and come to find out, syncing of photos via icloud can only be done on devises running iOS5 and OSX Lion. *le sigh*
I was back at my original conundrum of not being able to find Photoshop on sale at a price I was willing to pay. Right about this time I was looking through old comment notification in my inbox, when I came across a comment on one of my tutorials where the person was just so grateful to have found a tutorial that wasn't Photoshop specific. And that kind of galvanized me to stick with PSE, so I immediately called my Mom and told her I wanted Photoshop Elements 10 for Christmas.
So yesterday afternoon, I sat down with my MacBook Pro and installed PSE 10. After that, I bit the bullet and installed OSX Lion from the app store. It took FOREVER for it to download, and another long while for it to install. After it finally finished installing, I went through a quick setup where I enabled icloud and was eager to fiddle around but my computer was soooo incredibly slow because Spotlight had to re-index all my files in the new OS. It turns out that takes a couple of hours to do and it was already after 11 pm, so I ended up just going to bed and letting it run overnight.
I didn't get to really explore how things work in Lion until this evening after work, and of course, one of the first things I checked was to see if the photos from my phone have synced. They haven't. The main reason I upgraded to Lion is to sync my photos and it doesn't work! Cue me sighing in exasperation and going on another Google hunt to see what could be causing the problem. I had a suspicion and it turned out to be true. In addition to needing Lion, you also have to have the latest, greatest version of iphoto in order to sync photos over icloud. I only have the second latest, not quite the greatest version. So here I am, having to spend another $15 on iphoto 9 in addition to the $30 I already spent on Lion. I'm still waiting on iphoto to download, and from what I've read, I'll have to run another software update in order for the photo syncing to work....hopefully. All this rigmarole and jumping through hoops because I'm too lazying to connect my phone to the computer and manually download photos from one to the other. This better work, or I'm not going to be a happy camper.
ETA: It works! Huzzah! 181 photos just downloaded to iphoto on my Macbook! :D
At that point, I put the idea on the back burner because Snow Leopard has served me well and I had no pressing need to upgrade to Lion. Cue arrival of my shiny new iphone 4s with its shiny new 8 megapixel camera and the shiny new icloud that allows you to sync photos and all sorts of other things from your iOS5 devise to your computer, all done through the internet without the need for cables....in theory. While music and apps I downloaded on my phone showed up in itunes on my MacBookPro, there was no syncing of my iphone's photostream with my iphoto library. I did a little bit of digging, and come to find out, syncing of photos via icloud can only be done on devises running iOS5 and OSX Lion. *le sigh*
I was back at my original conundrum of not being able to find Photoshop on sale at a price I was willing to pay. Right about this time I was looking through old comment notification in my inbox, when I came across a comment on one of my tutorials where the person was just so grateful to have found a tutorial that wasn't Photoshop specific. And that kind of galvanized me to stick with PSE, so I immediately called my Mom and told her I wanted Photoshop Elements 10 for Christmas.
So yesterday afternoon, I sat down with my MacBook Pro and installed PSE 10. After that, I bit the bullet and installed OSX Lion from the app store. It took FOREVER for it to download, and another long while for it to install. After it finally finished installing, I went through a quick setup where I enabled icloud and was eager to fiddle around but my computer was soooo incredibly slow because Spotlight had to re-index all my files in the new OS. It turns out that takes a couple of hours to do and it was already after 11 pm, so I ended up just going to bed and letting it run overnight.
I didn't get to really explore how things work in Lion until this evening after work, and of course, one of the first things I checked was to see if the photos from my phone have synced. They haven't. The main reason I upgraded to Lion is to sync my photos and it doesn't work! Cue me sighing in exasperation and going on another Google hunt to see what could be causing the problem. I had a suspicion and it turned out to be true. In addition to needing Lion, you also have to have the latest, greatest version of iphoto in order to sync photos over icloud. I only have the second latest, not quite the greatest version. So here I am, having to spend another $15 on iphoto 9 in addition to the $30 I already spent on Lion. I'm still waiting on iphoto to download, and from what I've read, I'll have to run another software update in order for the photo syncing to work....hopefully. All this rigmarole and jumping through hoops because I'm too lazying to connect my phone to the computer and manually download photos from one to the other. This better work, or I'm not going to be a happy camper.
ETA: It works! Huzzah! 181 photos just downloaded to iphoto on my Macbook! :D