Some good pointers on setting up photoshop (on Mac) are on http://www.tema.ru/p/h/o/t/o/s/h/o/p/index.html
The speed of HDD shouldn't really matter. Once I start swapping, I know I am very dead. The difference between how fast one can read from RAM and from HDD are a few orders of magnitude. If I change my interface from IDE (ATA100) to SCSI you get a factor of 2 at best (guess). The name of the game (for me at least) is to avoid using scratch disk at any cost. I know I am in trouble when levels adjustments on a 120M scan starts taking a few minutes. My workflow usually is (1) open the file (2) adjust the levels (3) change to 8 bit (3) save (4) close file. I can do 2 files in one photoshop session, after which I have to kill the program and start it again. This of course have to do only with 120+ M files, 16 bit color/channel. With 8 bit/ch color, 60+M, it works just fine. I suspect, Mac version may have a better memory management -- I have win2K. If anyone has any idea what I can do to improve memory performance on windows version of PS, that would be greatly appreciated. > Interesting. I have a Mac G3 300 with 768M of memory, and I have no > trouble working on 260 megabyte files. The files are scans of 6x7 negs > and transparencies at 4000 dpi. I can keep an extensive history list and > can work relatively quickly. I don't know how PCs differ from Macs, but > on a Mac the amount of Ram you allocate to PhotoShop is important. I > give it 400 megs. The scratch disk is also important. I use a half full > 60 Gig firewire drive. That makes the drive access operations fairly > quick. I tend to think the scratch disk speed may be the most important > element in any PhotoShop setup. > Paul - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
