Digital BW, The Print

This is probably more of a computer problem than a PS problem. Myself 
I've never understood why photoshop takes so long - I suspect it is a 
dinosaur that needs to be completely rewritten which will probably never 
happen.

What I think you probably saw was an OS problem. Windows after it has 
been up for a long period of time - especially if you have run 
applications that require a lot of memory - will get corrupted and many 
things will not be done correctly. Windows memory management is not very 
good. A reboot will solve the problem.

This is the very reason that although we have tried many times in the 
past to use high end PC for digital signal processing applications 
Windows always fails because of system reliability. The only way we have 
ever gotten them to work is by throwing away Windows and using Linux.

Truman

Kip Babington wrote:

>Is there a common reason why Photoshop 7 should all of a sudden take an 
>extraordinarily long time to load, and sometimes fail to load at all?  It 
>was doing fine this afternoon, but this evening when I tried to open it (to 
>do some B&W prints using Lyson Quad Black on my Canon S9000) I've had it 
>fail to load several times and on another occasion took about 4 minutes to 
>load (felt like a half hour, of course.)
>
>It has always taken longer to load than any other program I use, but I can 
>see that it loads up a ton of stuff at the start - I watch the items flash 
>by on the startup screen.  But this evening there are several places where 
>it seems to get hung up on a plug-in - I remember Bas-Relief sat on the 
>screen for what seemed like forever, and there were several others where 
>the loading process just seemed to stop for a while.  Eventually it 
>finished and my image manipulation seemed to work at normal speed, but 
>clearly something is wrong.  I didn't do anything particular to the 
>computer that I can remember - I just have Eudora and Internet Explorer 
>open most of the time.  I don't leave Photoshop open all the time, just 
>open it when I'm ready to do some image work.
>
>Anything obvious to check to get back to "normal?"
>
>Thanks for any ideas.
>
>Cheers,
>Kip
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