Re: PhotoCD, multitrack, books and linart..

[Pixel Fairy]

On Sat, 13 Dec 1997, Howard Gibson wrote:

> Don't get your hopes up.  I have been investigating to see just what I
> can output from my new Epson Stylus Color 600.  The weak link in the
> PhotoCD process is memory.  Their maximum resolution is 3072x2048.  When
> you write this out to disk in uncompressed 24_bit format, it takes
> eighteen megs of disk space and RAM.  I actually managed to load this
> into xpaint, but it took awhile, and you can forget about multitasking! 
> My machine has twenty megs of RAM and fifty megs of swap.  I am here to
> tell you that my photo file used all of them.  Another problem is that,
> at 720dpi, an 3072x2048 image doesn't use up very many inches.

you dont use a home printer for really good output. offset, for example, 
can give you really good results at 150 lines per inch, for which
300dpi is enough. you can do pictography or a direct print to negative at
300-400 dpi and then develop the picture. (perhaps after gimping it first)

if you dont have much ram, you may want to mkswap(8) a temporary swap
file. 

                                                        decayed kisses,
                                                        The Pixel Fairy
                                           http://www.pitzer.edu/~zkazi