Digital BW, The Print

Hi Steve,

Dunno if you saw my recent post on the subject, but if you have 4GB in your PC
you can get PS to use 3GB of it. Take a look here:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint/message/51522

Best regards,

-= mike =-

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Kale [mailto:stevekale@...] 
Sent: 01 December 2004 23:18
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Computing power


I had a similar feeling with my little 15in Powerbook (800Mhz).  I finally
stumped up for a 2x2.5Ghz G5 - 64bit processing rocks.  At the moment I only
have 1 Gig of RAM and I would like to go to 3Gig (my understanding from recent
posts is that PS CS can only use 2 Gig but with 3 it gets all of the 2).  I
added a second internal hard drive and use that as a scratch which helps.  I
scan 35mm film at 6300 dpi (a little overkill but I figure if I am going to go
rent an Imacon 848 for an hour I might as well get the best scan possible and
it is fast), 16 bit - so that's around 90meg for B&W and 270 meg for
colour...without any layers.  The G5 mulches this stuff.  If you have colour
slides and start using programmes like Photokit Sharpener (which requires an
RGB file), file sizes can rapidly peak out at a couple of gig before you
flatten them back down - even the G% twin slows down considerably for this.


> From: Matthew Wensing <wensing@...>
> Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 14:25:24 -0800 (PST)
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: [Digital BW] Computing power
> 
> 
> 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
> 
> =====
> E-mail: wensing@...
> Blog: <http://seaofglass.blogspot.com>
> Photography: <http://www.wensing-photo.com>




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