Digital BW, The Print

I'm working with files a lot bigger than that - 550MB TIFF files. Drum 
scans of 4x5 film, 16bit grayscale, about an 11x enlargement. My 
computer is a 1GHz Athlon, with 3GB main memory running win2k-sp4. It's 
sloooowwww, but livable. The 1.5GB color images are killer slow though 
;-) Anything below about 250MB seems to run fine. At 100MB you might 
even think it quick.

One thing that helps is having two physical diskdrives with one 
dedicated to be Photoshop's scratch disk.

I just wish the clowns at micro$oft and adobe would get their act 
together and give us 64 bit support (I'd change to Mac in a minute, but 
Photoshop is the problem there).
--
Hogarth Hughes


Matthew Wensing wrote:

> I scan in 4x5 negatives at 4800 dpi, 16-bit grayscale,
> and am having a tough (read: slow) time of it with
> Photoshop 6.0 with the resulting files. Actually, I
> can't even work with the 50-90 mg .jpeg's, but instead
> downsize to roughly 12 megapixels and then
> dodge/burn/tweak those. Does anyone here work with
> digital files around 50-90 megs in Photoshop that is
> happy with the quickness of their setup in doing so?
> Right now, with the machine I have, manipulating such
> files is impossible.
>
> My machine is an Athlon XP 1.46 Ghz with 1 gig of DDR
> RAM. Two possible bottlenecks from what I know are
> memory bus speed (333 Mhz with my current motherboard)
> and also the version of PS I'm using. CS might be
> faster from the get-go?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Matt
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