PS not running a droplet in the background (from LR2 export)?

OK, hopefully someone here can help me out. I use LR2 as my DAM and CS4 to add my watermark and border to my images before they go to my website... I just moved from a PC to an iMac and so far so good, but I'm having an issue with LR2 when I export...

Typically I go through one days images at a time, "develop" then export, then go right into the next day while LR2 is exporting. The export opens CS4 and runs an action on the images I've made. On my PC, it would open CS4 in the background and do it's thing. You'd only notice it if you looked at the taskbar or if you noticed the computer slowing a bit, but the computer would let you keep doing your thing in LR.... Well on the iMac, as soon as CS4 opens to run the action on the first, it brings me to CS4...... Well I don't need to even see photoshop, I want it to quietly handle it's business in the background. Did I miss a setting somewhere? Right now it's really annoying, and even on clicking back on LR, it will still go back to CS4 as it opens another file from the batch for the first two images....

My walk around has been to go through the entire weeks images, edit them ALL in LR as a giant batch, then to export all 7 days at once. While this works, it means I'm waiting a bit longer at the end because instead of it doing most of the batch in the background, the walkaround means it's doing it all once I'm done which wastes time.....

Hopefully someone here knows of a magical setting I missed.

Thanks,
Ben

no one?

I've seen PSCS4 exhibit the same behaviour, but hardly use it that way. I think PSCS2 didn't pop up like that (stayed away after the initial "hello"), but not sure.

So I'm curious as well.

Have you tried to hit Ctrl+Cmd+H in PS?

René Damkot wrote in post #7119282
Have you tried to hit Ctrl+Cmd+H in PS?

no, what's that do?

cmd H is hide, but what's the ctrl with it add to that? and yes, I did try hide... but my other issue is when doing this on a PC you only see CS4 pop up on the taskbar... Even if it was closed when you start the export (so LR opens it). I can deal with hiding it once, but it is annoying to deal with it for EACH export (so 7 times in a weeks worth of PPing)....

thanks.

Ctrl+Cmd+H = hide PS

ooooohhh, so in PS they use what I thought was hide for something else...

gotcha, thanks. This whole mac transition has been fun, frustrating, and a PITA all in one. The whole command/crtl issue is the biggest for me. I'm learning, slowly, but I use PCs at work so that's not helping.

Yeah, your fingers will need to re-learn a few reflexes.

I know I'm cursing PCs if I have to use PS on them, because I'm used to (for instance) Cmd+Z instead of Ctrl+Z: Totally different finger movement.

In cases like that, I've hit the Windows key a dozen times within a minute, and start mumbling to myself: "Cmd, so that would be Ctrl"

figured it out, if the action has NN in it, it pops up, w/o NN check it's fine....