On Wednesday, November 27, 2002, at 04:31 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote:
The Scratch disk is what PhotoShop uses to allow undos and keep track ofHaving a good HD is important for a lot of reasons, but the _best_ thing you can do to make your box Photoshop friendly is max out your RAM--and RAM is dirt cheap nowadays (cheaper than a huge firewire drive).
the history. Every time you do something to your image, it records the
previous version on the scratch disk -- or at least enough information
so that your next step can be undone. The bigger your scratch disk, the
more history steps you can save. And a bigger scratch disk allows you to
work with bigger files. Obviously, the speed of the disk being used as a
scratch disk is crucial. With a huge firewire drive, PhotoShop flys.
Paul
I rarely hear Photoshop accessing my disk, which means Photoshop isn't waiting on info to be loaded or unloaded from the disk and it's only because I have enough of that wonderfully, amazingly, affordably cheap RAM--1.2 gigs on my old G4/400.
Dan Scott
