Scanning in background

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Dennis Herrick
Feb 10, 2006
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I’ve been using Photoshop 7 for sometime for scanning. I have an 11×17 scanner and it can often take time to scan a page. For version 7 I could play solitaire, browse the internet, or work on something else while scanning takes place. I am trying a demo of CS2 and NOTHING can be done when scanning is taking place (Win XP, 1 gig mem, same machine as version 7). If I try to switch to something else, it goes immediately back to Photoshop. This alone would make me hesitant to upgrade, regardless of new features, since scanning is what I do the most….

Is this a setting somewhere or just the way CS2 works?
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iehsmith
Feb 10, 2006
On 2/10/06 1:18 PM, Dennis Herrick commented:

I’ve been using Photoshop 7 for sometime for scanning. I have an 11×17 scanner and it can often take time to scan a page. For version 7 I could play solitaire, browse the internet, or work on something else while scanning takes place. I am trying a demo of CS2 and NOTHING can be done when scanning is taking place (Win XP, 1 gig mem, same machine as version 7). If I try to switch to something else, it goes immediately back to Photoshop. This alone would make me hesitant to upgrade, regardless of new features, since scanning is what I do the most….

Is this a setting somewhere or just the way CS2 works?

Does your scanner have a standalone DA that you can use without Photoshop?
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Dennis Herrick
Feb 10, 2006
"iehsmith" wrote in message

Does your scanner have a standalone DA that you can use without Photoshop?

I’ve never used anything but direct to Photoshop. I’ll have to check. Seems strange the Photoshop behaves this way now…
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iehsmith
Feb 11, 2006
On 2/10/06 3:14 PM, Dennis Herrick commented:

"iehsmith" wrote in message

Does your scanner have a standalone DA that you can use without Photoshop?

I’ve never used anything but direct to Photoshop. I’ll have to check. Seems strange the Photoshop behaves this way now…

I can’t speak to that part since I’m using PS 6.0.1 on Mac OS 9.2.2. Maybe someone else will pop in on that, fingers crossed.
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Pat
Feb 12, 2006
I don’t know if this will work, but try setting it’s priority back in XP.

<alt><ctl><del>
click Applications tab (should be up when you do it)
Click on PS to highlight it.
Right click over it while highlighted
select Go To Process (that will take you to the next tab with the correct process hightlighted)
Right click the Process
select Set Priority
click Low or Below Normal

Hope and pray nothing happens.

When you are done, DON’T FORGET TO SET IT BACK.
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WhoCares
Feb 12, 2006
"Pat" wrote in message
I don’t know if this will work, but try setting it’s priority back in XP.

Yes, it’s a good thing to experiment with first. Sometimes setting priority lower will actually cause overall performance degradation. It depends upon whether the image in question is locking a resource, and how locking is handled. If it’s got a lock on a resource another program needs, and doesn’t have the priority to get time to unlock it, then the other process is held up, too.

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