Digital BW, The Print

Because I'm the new guy that just got his Epson 4870
but hasn't yet done enough reading to really know what
he does and doesn't need out of it.  :)  

Matt

--- "B. Campbell" <bellis60@...> wrote:


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> I scan in 4x5 negatives at 4800 dpi, 16-bit
grayscale,

Why?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Anthony G. Atkielski" <anthony@...>
To: "Matthew Wensing"
<DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 12:00 AM
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Computing power



Matthew Wensing writes:

> 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.

Buy more memory.

> 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?

Install the maximum amount of memory your motherboard
will support; that
should help considerably.  Memory is the biggest
bottleneck with any
version of Photoshop.  A single gigabyte isn't very
much for image
editing, at least not for large film formats.





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