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digital photo professional

TotoEC — Sat, 03 Jan 2015 19:15:10 GMT

Maybe this is a dumb question but somebody point me to the correct way..

I am using Digital Photo Professional 4.1.5 under Windows O/S. I took a bunch of pictures and saved the RAW files separately from the JPeg. How do you navigate from one directory to another or for that matter from one directory to its sub-directory using the DPP 4.1.5?

Thanks.

Re: digital photo professional

RobertTheFat — Sat, 03 Jan 2015 22:37:26 GMT

A tiny triangle, about halfway up on the left-hand edge of the window, opens the navigation pane. Why does it have to be so inconspicuous? Who knows? DPP V4, especially its GUI, is most definitely a work in progress.

BTW, there's an option that claims to make the program open on the same folder on which you last closed it. You probably needn't bother to try it; it has never worked for me. (It does work in DPP V3, which is somewhat less buggy and a lot more intuitive than V4. But V4 has some useful features that V3 lacks.)

Re: digital photo professional

TotoEC — Sun, 04 Jan 2015 05:51:11 GMT

Bob,

Thank you very much! My eyes are trained to look at the windows' top and bottom sides and never suspected that the 'navigation option' lurks on its left side. I totally missed that [blasted] triangle!

This latest software update forces the program to open on the same folder on which you last closed it - via the "Preference" option under the Tool menu.

Thanks again for your help!

Toto

Re: digital photo professional

ebiggs1 — Mon, 05 Jan 2015 15:34:59 GMT

Or, you can buy Photoshop Elements 12 or Adobe Lightroom 5 and be very much happier.

Re: digital photo professional

RobertTheFat — Mon, 05 Jan 2015 15:53:57 GMT

@ebiggs1 wrote:
Or, you can buy Photoshop Elements 12 or Adobe Lightroom 5 and be very much happier.

Depends on what's important to you. DPP incorporates your editing changes as metadata in the RAW file. I'd be surprised if either of those other two programs does that.

Re: digital photo professional

ebiggs1 — Mon, 05 Jan 2015 16:07:06 GMT

Bob from Boston,

"Depends on what's important to you."

Yes it does. I have a friend that loves DPP, just like you. But if DPP washed the clothes and did the dishes, I wouldn't use it. Canon needs to do some serious "tweaking" to make it a real prime time player.

Well maybe if it did do the dishes....................

Re: digital photo professional

RobertTheFat — Mon, 05 Jan 2015 16:19:07 GMT

@ebiggs1 wrote:
Bob from Boston,
"Depends on what's important to you."

Yes it does. I have a friend that loves DPP, just like you. But if DPP washed the clothes and did the dishes, I wouldn't use it. Canon needs to do some serious "tweaking" to make it a real prime time player.

Well maybe if it did do the dishes....................

I don't love DPP; I merely prefer it to the alternatives for my current requirements. And I couldn't agree more about the need for tweaks.

Re: digital photo professional

TotoEC — Tue, 06 Jan 2015 16:38:52 GMT

Most people like Elements or Lightroom because of their 'supposed' better filing systems but if you know "Windows" and its filing system - you will not miss anything.

I use Photoshop since version 3 thru CS6. Stopped throwing money to Adobe since they moved to Clouds. Never been a fan of Elements nor Lightroom. I just prefer DPP over the latter as far as processing RAW is concerned.

And yes, I love CS6 for its ability to edit not only pictures but also video. And before you say something else, I also use Premiere and Media Composer 7. Both doesn't do laundry as well.

Re: digital photo professional

connomar — Thu, 04 Jan 2018 04:12:37 GMT

I have just downloaded my first copy of Digital Photo Professional 4.7 and really really wish I hadn't. My Windows 10 64bit Installation updated a week or so ago to the Fall Addition and I wonder if this is why my problem seems to get no mentions.

The problem: DPP 4 generates an Error during the install and doesn't complete to the extent that it will uninstall. The uninstall scripts (.xml) are missing. The applications, DPP, Picture Style Editor and EOS Lens Registration Tool all behave the same way, so I have three partially installed products that don't work.

DPP 4 is the 64 bit version and whilst it runs, I can't get it to load anything. I can select a folder full of .cr2 images but to no effect. During load, a message says Graphics Processor Unavailable. Strange, because I have a Nvidia 980GT which should be well up to the task.

Now I know my Camera - a 350D - is old and no driver is supported, but surely that would have no effect on loading the software installation?

Any ideas would be gratefully received.

Martin

Re: digital photo professional

Waddizzle — Thu, 04 Jan 2018 13:44:58 GMT

I just recently bought a Dell laptop workstation, which has ‘Intel Inside”. I have no issues. What are you running?

Re: digital photo professional

shadowsports — Thu, 04 Jan 2018 14:28:39 GMT

Connomar,

Build 1709 here too, laptop, and desktop. No issues, and I uninstall before upgrading to newer versions each time.

We'll wait for you to elaborate further.

Re: digital photo professional

RobertTheFat — Thu, 04 Jan 2018 15:49:19 GMT

@Waddizzle wrote:
I just recently bought a Dell laptop workstation, which has ‘Intel Inside”. I have no issues. What are you running?

I think "Intel Inside" just means it has an Intel CPU. I don't think it says anything about its graphics capability.

Re: digital photo professional

ebiggs1 — Thu, 04 Jan 2018 15:54:24 GMT

"I just recently bought a Dell laptop workstation, which has ‘Intel Inside”."

So did I, whatever that means. I am not that much of a computer guru but DPP4 seems to run fine for me. Yes, it is infrequent use but I do try it from time to time. Mostly when Canon upgrades something. I keep hoping !!!!!!!!

Re: digital photo professional

Waddizzle — Fri, 05 Jan 2018 13:12:41 GMT

@RobertTheFat wrote:
@Waddizzle wrote:
I just recently bought a Dell laptop workstation, which has ‘Intel Inside”. I have no issues. What are you running?
I think "Intel Inside" just means it has an Intel CPU. I don't think it says anything about its graphics capability.

Actually, it does.

While I wasn’t trying to directly suggest anything about the graphics capability, “Intel Inside” actually suggests the inclusion of the standard Intel graphics chipset. Any additional graphics board would be above and beyond the standard chipset.

Canon’s DPP software seems to be written against genuine Intel hardware, and NVidia graphics cards.

Re: digital photo professional

ebiggs1 — Fri, 05 Jan 2018 14:12:53 GMT

"...genuine Intel hardware, and NVidia graphics cards."

I think that is what my machine has. It has 16MB of RAM and a third 2TB HD just for LR and PS to use exclusively..

Re: digital photo professional

Waddizzle — Sat, 06 Jan 2018 19:22:50 GMT

@ebiggs1 wrote:
"...genuine Intel hardware, and NVidia graphics cards."

I think that is what my machine has. It has 16MB of RAM and a third 2TB HD just for LR and PS to use exclusively..

I'm running with a 500GB SSD, a 1 TB conventional hard drive, and an nVidia GeForce GTX 1060 w 6GB RAM. I use the local SSD for storing applications. I use the local HD for downloading from camera, but store the images on a Western Digital NAS, running RAID 1, for editing. Back it all up so that even BfromB would approve.

Re: digital photo professional

ebiggs1 — Sat, 06 Jan 2018 22:02:18 GMT

If you are running all your normal apps including LR and PS on a 500GB drive, you are probably starving PS and perhaps even LR. PS and LR use so many swap files they like a lot of room that they don't have to compete for.

I stopped doing backups. Last time I checked several months ago, there was over 200,000 photos in backups. Nobody is ever going to want or even look through them. So bye, bye. Running four 2TB external drives and three 2TB internal drives is too much when nobody including myself don't care. I tell what very few clients I have now, I will keep you job for six months then I'm done.

Re: digital photo professional

connomar — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 20:27:02 GMT

As I have an incomplete install, I can't uninstall, but I wonder if anyone could send me the uninstall.xml file from their computer which might enable me to determine how to get rid of the darn thing.

The message I get is: UniversalUninstaller.exe could not load C:Program Files (X86)\Common Files\Canon_Inc_IC\UniversalInstaller\Uninstall\Digital Photo Professional 4 (x64)\uninstall.xml

Re: digital photo professional

Stephen — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 20:33:06 GMT

Hey connormar!

Support can likely help you get rid of the incomplete install. If you have an EOS product, our team's available at 1-800-OK-CANON (800-652-2666) from 8am to Midnight (ET) weekdays and from 10am to 8pm (ET) on Saturdays. For all other products, they're available weekdays from 10am to 10pm (ET).

They're right here in the USA and support at Canon USA is 100% free.

Re: digital photo professional

ebiggs1 — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 20:56:56 GMT

"I wonder if anyone could send me the uninstall.xml file from their computer ..."

I doubt seriously that would help your situation. Your most best solution is to call 1 (800) 652-2666.