|  | how much memory for using Photoshop ? | | |
| | | Bernard Cordier |  |
|  Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 2:13 pm Post subject: how much memory for using Photoshop ? |  |
Hi,
My daughter uses Photoshop CS2 with a A5 Wacom pen tablet. She draws large
images like 6000 * 6000 px or more. Her PC is a Dell Dimension 5150 with a
2.4 GHZ processor and 2 GO RAM, which sounds comfortable enough to me.
However, working in that conditions turns out to be very slow. What would be
the necessary power to work with comfort on a very large image with
Photoshop?
Thanks.
--
Bernard Cordier
Ressources STG : LINK
Pyrrha Naja : LINK |
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| | | KatWoman | |
| | Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 3:14 pm Post subject: Re: how much memory for using Photoshop ? | |
"Bernard Cordier" <cordier-bernard@_wanadoo.fr> wrote in message
news:4880c16d$0$924$ba4acef3@news.orange.fr...
| Quote: | Hi,
My daughter uses Photoshop CS2 with a A5 Wacom pen tablet. She draws large
images like 6000 * 6000 px or more. Her PC is a Dell Dimension 5150 with a
2.4 GHZ processor and 2 GO RAM, which sounds comfortable enough to me.
However, working in that conditions turns out to be very slow. What would
be the necessary power to work with comfort on a very large image with
Photoshop?
Thanks.
--
Bernard Cordier
Ressources STG : LINK
Pyrrha Naja : LINK
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before spending on a new comp
have you tried adding some extra drives??
and making sure the primary scratch drive is not set to the C drive??
look under options to set that
PS is more dependent on having drive space unless she is doing filters or
other mathematical processes that require chip speed |
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| | | Voivod | |
| | Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 5:08 pm Post subject: Re: how much memory for using Photoshop ? | |
On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:26:20 -0700, Mike Russell
<groupsRE@MOVEcurvemeister.com> scribbled:
Don't. Unless you're running a 64bit version of Windows you won't see
the full four gigs, upgrade to three and save the money you'd waste on
bad advice. |
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| | | Joel | |
| | Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 6:30 pm Post subject: Re: how much memory for using Photoshop ? | |
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"Bernard Cordier" <cordier-bernard@_wanadoo.fr> wrote:
| Quote: | Hi,
My daughter uses Photoshop CS2 with a A5 Wacom pen tablet. She draws large
images like 6000 * 6000 px or more. Her PC is a Dell Dimension 5150 with a
2.4 GHZ processor and 2 GO RAM, which sounds comfortable enough to me.
However, working in that conditions turns out to be very slow. What would be
the necessary power to work with comfort on a very large image with
Photoshop?
Thanks.
|
6000x6000 isn't that big (and doesn't mean much without the PPI). Both my
laptop and desktop have 4GB and the desktop doing fine with 12MP image (I
don't have CS3 installed on laptop).
My grand-daughter uses CS3 on her Laptop, Vista with 2GB memory and she
thinks it's ok (she upgraded from 1GB cuz she said it was too slow).
And for your daughter, here is few things you may try.
- 2GB should be ok, but you can upgrade to 3-4GB to speed thing up a little.
The memory is so cheap these days.
- Make sure to have plenty of Disk Space for swapping. |
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| | | tacit | |
| | Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 9:19 pm Post subject: Re: how much memory for using Photoshop ? | |
In article <fvu184dehf19pqgueaorl39uq3bbduptpv@4ax.com>,
Joel <Joel@NoSpam.com> wrote:
| Quote: | 6000x6000 isn't that big (and doesn't mean much without the PPI).
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Sure it does. A 6000x6000 image is 103 MB if it's RGB, and 137 MB if
it's CMYK. PPI makes no difference.
2 GB of RAM is OK, if a little tight, for comfortably working on images
that size. The biggest bottleneck, though, is likely to be hard drive
speed.
More RAM and a faster hard drive will help.
--
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LINK |
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| | | Bernard Cordier | |
| | Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 6:33 am Post subject: Re: how much memory for using Photoshop ? | |
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| | | John | |
| | Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 4:22 pm Post subject: Re: how much memory for using Photoshop ? | |
Joel wrote:
| Quote: | 6000x6000 isn't that big (and doesn't mean much without the PPI).
|
Uh oh. You are gonna get spanked for that. |
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| | | Kurt Knoll | |
| | Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 5:08 pm Post subject: Re: how much memory for using Photoshop ? | |
My computer has 1.10 gigabites of memory how ever it does not longer work
with image ready from Photoshop or as a stand alone application. It freezes
up or call it the application is not responding.
Kurt Knoll.
"John" <nohj@droffats.ten> wrote in message
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| Quote: | Joel wrote:
6000x6000 isn't that big (and doesn't mean much without the PPI).
Uh oh. You are gonna get spanked for that. |
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| | | Joel | |
| | Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 7:54 am Post subject: Re: how much memory for using Photoshop ? | |
tacit <tacitr@aol.com> wrote:
| Quote: | In article <fvu184dehf19pqgueaorl39uq3bbduptpv@4ax.com>,
Joel <Joel@NoSpam.com> wrote:
6000x6000 isn't that big (and doesn't mean much without the PPI).
Sure it does. A 6000x6000 image is 103 MB if it's RGB, and 137 MB if
it's CMYK. PPI makes no difference.
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No it isn't! and Yes, PPI makes the BIG difference.
| Quote: | 2 GB of RAM is OK, if a little tight, for comfortably working on images
that size. The biggest bottleneck, though, is likely to be hard drive
speed.
More RAM and a faster hard drive will help. |
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| | | Joel | |
| | Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 7:55 am Post subject: Re: how much memory for using Photoshop ? | |
John <nohj@droffats.ten> wrote:
| Quote: | Joel wrote:
6000x6000 isn't that big (and doesn't mean much without the PPI).
Uh oh. You are gonna get spanked for that.
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Yup! I already spranked lot of people on this before. |
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