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03CarbonDog
07-30-2003, 07:54 PM
I've been playing with photoshop now for like 4 or 5 months now and my computer acts like it doesn't want to run it good. I have a Dell about 2 years old running XP Home, P4 1.3 GHZ, GeForce 128 MB card, and 640 MB of RAM. What rez do you guys usually work with on the pics. If I go 1000 or more it really slows down. Any advice? Also I'm prolly going to buy another computer pretty soon and was wanting to know if any of you knew anything about the P4 3 GHZ.
BCossette
07-30-2003, 10:14 PM
Anything above 1GHZ for what your doing shouldn't be affected whatsoever. If you were in BRYCE re rendering images all night long it may be a different story... but you really should be fine. May be time for a reformat.
03CarbonDog
07-30-2003, 10:18 PM
Reformat. Yeah that's coming soon. Just hadn't had time to do it.
lrymal
07-30-2003, 11:51 PM
Highly recommended to check your free space and make sure you have about 500 MBytes and more available. I would defrag the hard drive also. And finally, dig around in the Photoshop manual for setting up the scatchdisk to optimize things.

Regarding image sizes on board such as this one... typically keep the image down to about 500 pix wide and smaller. It will fit nicely on the monitor and eases download times for modem dialup users. Finally, with PhotoShop, use the SAVE FOR WEB feature. Select medium quality. Try to keep as a goal a file size of 30-40k. That will help.

I probably am violating my own rule, but I do knock the file size down as best as I can.
Chuggernaut
07-31-2003, 01:34 AM
Whoa, that is wierd... definitely check your scratch disk settings, but I dunno. 98% of the PS work that I turn out are from my home comp -- a 7 year old 266 PII with 128 Megs of RAM.
03CarbonDog
07-31-2003, 01:42 AM
Thanks I'll check that. That's one bad sig you got man. You do some great work!
Chuggernaut
07-31-2003, 01:48 AM
Originally posted by 03CarbonDog
That's one bad sig you got man. You do some great work!

Thanks. :D :D But if you think that's something, you should see how the truck in the sig started. :read:

http://www.imagestation.com/album/?id=4289549779
Whifflebat
08-02-2003, 01:58 AM
Check and make sure you don't have anything running in the background stealing processor cycles, like a antivirus or one of those data mining programs. The less running, the better.