Expectations?

On Sun, 11 Apr 2004 19:21:30 -0500, "steinjr" wrote:

I purchased a new laptop w/ Intel 2.8GHz Pentium 4 Processor with Hyper-Threading, 800MHz Front Side Bus and 400MHz DDR Dual Channel RAM. I have 512 megs of memory and the new ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 video card with 64 MB.

To test the laptop I opened Photoshop 7…loaded a 150 mb scanned image psd file… added some text and tried to save it. I tried this 5 times and every time Photoshop stopped responding almost immediately into the file saving process.

I am fairly new to Photoshop. Is 150mb too big to work with? I am asking too much? Or do I have a problem?

What format did you try to save it in?
How long did you give it to save? (I’ve saved some pretty darn large ..PNG format images and sometimes the computer pauses for a while to digest it before it starts saving.

Drifter
"I’ve been here, I’ve been there…"

I’ve a PC with half the memory, half the speed, half the…everything. 150Mb file is not too large for my machine. I guess you might not have the system properly set up or something. What OS are you using?

WinXP/PS7 works pretty good on my machine. PHOTO-PAINT works even better. 😉

"steinjr" wrote in message

I purchased a new laptop w/ Intel 2.8GHz Pentium 4 Processor with Hyper-Threading, 800MHz Front Side Bus and 400MHz DDR Dual Channel RAM. I have 512 megs of memory and the new ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 video card with 64 MB.

To test the laptop I opened Photoshop 7…loaded a 150 mb scanned image psd file… added some text and tried to save it. I tried this 5 times and every time Photoshop stopped responding almost immediately into the file saving process.

I am fairly new to Photoshop. Is 150mb too big to work with? I am asking too much? Or do I have a problem?

A 150 MB file is *way* too big for a laptop with 512 MB of RAM. Also, when you added text you created a new layer which increased that file size, unless you later merged layers or flattened the image. PS will be forced to use virtual memory when processing that, and while that’s OK (but a little slow) on a desktop, the disk drive on a laptop is much slower. Adobe recommend that PS’s disk buffer be on a separate drive from Windoze’s swap file, which cannot be done on laptops, which have only one drive.

There could also be another problem. Depending on how you added the text, you could have created several more layers and caused the file to exceed the 2 GB Windoze file size limit.

If you’re going to work with files that size, I would suggest adding more RAM to the maximum possible. 2 GB wouldn’t be too much.

Don

"steinjr" wrote in message

I purchased a new laptop w/ Intel 2.8GHz Pentium 4 Processor with Hyper-Threading, 800MHz Front Side Bus and 400MHz DDR Dual Channel RAM. I have 512 megs of memory and the new ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 video card

with

64 MB.

To test the laptop I opened Photoshop 7…loaded a 150 mb scanned image

psd

file… added some text and tried to save it. I tried this 5 times and

every

time Photoshop stopped responding almost immediately into the file saving process.

I am fairly new to Photoshop. Is 150mb too big to work with? I am asking

too

much? Or do I have a problem?