Re: OT: Photoshop CS

[Paul Stenquist]

I run PS   CS on a dual processor mac G4  1.25 gigahertz, 1.5 gig RAM. 
I give the software 750 megabytes of memory. My primary scratch disk 
has 50 gig of open space, my secondary disk has 25 gig of space. In all 
operations I've encountered, the speed is very good. I've never had to 
wait. I don't care how much memory PS7 used. PS CS does awesome RAW 
file conversions. That's all that matters to me.
paul
On May 16, 2004, at 10:38 AM, Shawn K. wrote:

Yeah, I personally know that, and it's not the problem.  I have a gig 
of
Ram, and almost 200 gigs of harddrive space, I typically allow windows 
the
use of 5 gigs of scratchdisk, if I have anything else using memory or
scratch disk Photoshop oftens runs out of scratch disk.  Thats just 
retarded
amounts of memory to be using.  PS 7 never used that much memory.

-Shawn
-----Original Message-----
From: Henri Toivonen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2004 8:39 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: OT: Photoshop CS
Doug Franklin wrote:
That's just insane.  That's 1000 times the size of the 40MB image Shel
mentioned.  It's 300 times the size of the 130MB images I typically
work on.  I'd love to know what the "lower limit" on scratch disk is.
If I was working on several dozen images or layers at the same time, I
might understand, or doing long stretches of work that ended up as
dozens of undo/history copies.  But I typically load the image, adjust
the ppi setting, crop a bit, adjust colors/curves, zap with a little
unsharp mask, and save.  At worst, that's 520MB of images,
undo/history, etc.  I'd think 1-2 GB ought to be plenty for the type 
of
work I do.

TTYL, DougF KG4LMZ

Youknow, you can always lower the amount of mem it uses.
In preferences you can set the maximum ram used by PS, also how many
Cache levels and how many history states it saves.
Lower everything by a notch and PS won't use as much RAM. Or if you 
want
more in RAM and less on disk, juice up the maximum ram setting and 
lower
the rest.

/Henri Toivonen