PhotoShop needs high speed storage, because it writes everything you do
to a scratch disk. I installed a firewire card and firewire drive on my
G3 300 Mac, and PhotoShop is now at least twice as fast as it was.
Paul
Doug Franklin wrote:
Hi Bruce,
On Tue, 26 Mar 2002 20:12:38 -0800 (PST),
More RAM, yes, more processor speed, no.
I'm running a blue white G3 400 with a gig of RAM. Until a few months
ago I was running with 512 megs of RAM, which was how I picked up the
system nearly three years ago. Our bottleneck is now drive speed. I
replaced our original 5200 rpm drive
My only comment is on memory. I have Nikon 4000ED and 768M memory. I
feel barely adequate. The photoshop starts swapping mercilessly after
the 3rd operation on 125M files (I have history set to 4, which is as
little as I can live with). I will go for 1.5G as soon as I stop
throwing money away
- Original Message -
From: Doug Franklin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: PDML [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 6:30 PM
Subject: (LONG) High Resolution Scanning
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OPEN QUESTIONS
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1) Does anyone have suggestions for PhotoShopping away the artifacts
of grain
Doug,
A few points:
Download and install Cachemanager from outertech, it will speed up your
system. If you like it, you can register it for $10.
http://www.outertech.com
If using Vuescan, make sure you switch off TIF compression. Although it
makes your files smaller, it also slows down the
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
Doug,
A few points:
Download and install Cachemanager from outertech, it will speed up your
system. If you like it, you can register it for $10.
http://www.outertech.com
If using Vuescan, make sure you switch off TIF compression. Although it
makes your files smaller, it also slows down the
DF I capture the images into PhotoShop using the Import menu item on the
DF File menu, and selecting the Canon scanner. This invokes the
DF FilmGetFS program provided with the scanner. As far as I can tell,
DF there's no way to use FilmGetFS without some sort of graphics program
DF driving it
Howdy, folks,
Well, I finally got around to getting a film scanner. My plan is to
get my (primarily color negative) film developed only, then scan it and
do any printing I want on the inkjet printer. This will pay for the
scanner in two or three racing events, best case, or four or five,
worst
forward to hearing more about your learning process. Your missive
was quite instructive.
Stan
From: Doug Franklin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 19:30:11 -0500
Subject: (LONG) High Resolution Scanning
Howdy, folks,
Well, I finally got around to getting a film scanner. My plan
Random observations:
You need more memory and a faster CPU. With ATA100 IDE drives, I wouldn't
bother with SCSI HDs. I would get a SCSI interface card for the scanner.
Grain and sharpening: Go into channels and only do sharpening on the green
channel, where most of the detail info is. You might
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