two question about element 6

[JTcooper]

1.does anyone know why sometime my element 6 won't let me imput the crop size that I wanted to. Its only happen to some photo and I'm stuck
2. I shoot in raw and after each shoot I loaded up to lightroom and converted to jpeg for viewing in window and I just found out that in the whole raw file had a few copy XMP file to some of the photo and it have a pattern like first 5 photo have un XMP and then the 7 and the 9 and it went back down to 1. please does anyone know how to correct this in photoshop. Both of this problem started since I upgrade from a 20d to a 5d and thank you for any help.

Note: question 1 refer to photoshop and question 2 XMP file show up in raw file folder

[Medley]

I can't help you with question 1, as I use photoshop CS2.

As to question #2, the XMP files are "sidecar" files for your raw images. Raw image are never directly altered. When you open them in Lightroom, Lightroom saves any adjustments made in either a camera raw database, or in a file that has the same name as the image, with an extension of .xmp. Then when you re-open the image, Lightroom accesses either the database or xmp file, and reapplies any adjustments made.

You can switch the methods in the Preferences of the Camera Raw plug-in. I use the xmp files exclusively for a couple of reasons:

1) I can look in the raw folder and tell at a glance which images I've processed and which I haven't simply by the existence (or lack thereof) of the xmp file.

2) And most importantly, I can archive the adjustments made to my images along with the raw file themselves without having to try to extract the information from the database.

Hope that helps.

- Joe U.

[JTcooper]

well Medley, Its show up even before I loaded up into lightroom. Its does not do that with my 20D raw file. Usually I loaded the card and put it in a certain folder and open the file up to see how many shot I took and the XMP already in the folder with some of the same shot not all of them. I still don't get it could you explain to me a little more please... I'm a dum to this I guess

[readingr]

Where are you doing the cropping? Are you in the full edit mode or in the organiser?

If your in organiser then select custom from the spect ratio drop down list which enables the number boxes or in full edit it should be already there and raring to go.

Roger

[JTcooper]

yes, I'm in the full editing mode. and guess what after I shut my machine down coming back from a cigarette and coffee break the darn thing working normal again and I still don't know what cause that. humm...