Digital BW, The Print

Hogarth,

Calm down . . . I am not cursing at you . . . just the general attitude that "if it ain't fast enough" mabe I should take ANOTHER walk to my computer store. As to it taking another 20-90 seconds as you cite, well that is another minute or so. I run three computers in my "home studio". While one of them is churning and farting away, I DO other things, sometimes on another computer, sometimes on the phone. It is called as the computer geek world likes to call it "multi-tasking". I have no problem with that. Those that do, probably need not another "upgrade" but more likely a course in management. While "time is money" is a given, time well ORGANIZED is a gift that allows you more freedom, and often a chance to quit a little earlier in the day.

As to your fear about leaving your "edit" . . . are you that unsure of what you are doing after all this time?????? As I said . . . sitting and bitching in front of your monitor IS NOT PRODUCTIVE . . . at least pick your nose . . . that will be your first step in learning how to "multi-task".

Paul Aparycki

p.s. by the way, I have a real grip. I don't owe a cent to anyone and I have been using my time WISELY for nearly thirty years.
  Are you just being silly, or are you actually serious? If you've ever 
  worked on large files in PS before, you know that what we are talking 
  about is an extra 20-90 seconds for some operations (for example, it 
  takes my machine about 60 seconds to complete a crop on a 500MB file).. 
  There's no 6-18 minute "gift" of time here. It's that everything takes 
  an extra few seconds. That time, with all due respect, isn't usable. You 
  can't turn around and do something else without seriously lengthening 
  the time it takes to finish the editing job. If I turn around and start 
  filing, it'll be 20 minutes or more before I get back to the edit, which 
  will have been sitting waiting for me for 19 of those minutes.

  Get a grip, and stop cursing at me.
  --
  Hogarth Hughes


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