I have a 8 gig 5400rpm disk 40% full. What I want to do is get enough memory that
photoshop doesn't have to go to disk to use the burn tool.
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On 12/14/00 at 7:57 PM Frank Paris wrote:
>I have a 733 MHz Pentium III. How big a disk do you have and what percentage
>of it is full? I'm not doing anything fancy with PhotoShop yet (I'm also a
>raw beginner with this program), using it just for unsharp masking and
>printing with a calibrated profile to my Epson 2000P. It takes 11 seconds to
>open a 50 MByte file and 9 seconds to save it. I have a single 30 GByte
>Seagate ATA drive, 7200 rpm, about 2/3 full.
>
>Frank Paris
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mike
>> Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2000 9:59 PM
>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Subject: RE: filmscanners: infos on Nikon LS 2000 or Microtek 4000T
>>
>>
>> I've just had a film scanner and photoshop for a couple of weeks
>> and am trying to figure out how to use photoshop effectively.
>> So, I'm certainly no expert and I may be doing something wrong.
>> However, I've found that with a 20 something meg file, with
>> certain tools (most notably the burn tool), the result of the
>> tool lags way behind the action. Maybe as long as 30 seconds
>> with constant disk activity. I tend to use a very large brush
>> with the dodge and/or burn tool as my experence is in a
>> conventional darkroom and that is most like how I would dodge and
>> burn in the darkroom.
>>
>> I have 256 megs of memory and a 450mhz K6-2 processor.
>>
>> Do other people experience this? Could this be due to photoshop
>> settings? Because of this, I normally run photoshop with no other
>> programs loaded. Would 512megs and an 800mhz processor fix the problem?
>>
>> Mike
