CS or Elements?

OceanView wrote:

I run Photoshop CS most of the time, but sometimes …

To my absolute shock and horror, Elements … took LONGER to load.

Are you really comparing the load times on an empty machine, right after boot-up? I mean, boot up, load CS, boot up again, load Ellements. Anything else is not a fair comparison.

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OceanView wrote:

I run Photoshop CS most of the time, but sometimes I don’t want to wait a a full two mintes while the monster loads on my aging computer.

Then I remembered I got Photoshop Elements with my scanner, I though I’d load that and run it for quick stuff.

To my absolute shock and horror, Elements runs at 56 MEG of memory and took LONGER to load. WTF? What gives with this? Why does a chopped down program use double the resources? I didn’t load any extras. Any clues?

What do you mean ‘double the resources’? Do you honestly mean that Photoshop CS could run in as little as 28 MB?

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OceanView wrote:

I run Photoshop CS most of the time, but sometimes …

To my absolute shock and horror, Elements … took LONGER to load.

Are you really comparing the load times on an empty
machine, right after boot-up? I mean, boot up, load CS, boot up again, load Ellements. Anything else is not a fair comparison.

I worked in the software business for 25 years before they sent my job to India, two of those years running third shift low-load factor and benchmark runs! That was NOT fun. It’s really not that important here, since doing that test on this machine would take 45 minutes. I was just wondering if there’s something obvious you folks could tell me. Short of that I’ll go back to CS.

I just ran the no-image-open test again and CS was 68mb and Elements was 58mb. More like what I would expect, but not nearly small enough to bother.

(Johan W. Elzenga) wrote in
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OceanView wrote:

I run Photoshop CS most of the time, but sometimes I don’t want to wait a a full two mintes while the monster loads on my aging computer.

Then I remembered I got Photoshop Elements with my
scanner, I though I’d load that and run it for quick
stuff.

To my absolute shock and horror, Elements runs at 56 MEG of memory and took LONGER to load. WTF? What gives with this? Why does a chopped down program use double the
resources? I didn’t load any extras. Any clues?

What do you mean ‘double the resources’? Do you honestly mean that Photoshop CS could run in as little as 28 MB?

I think I misread task manager because (reposting from other reply):

I just ran the no-image-open test again and CS was 68mb and Elements was 58mb. More like what I would expect, but not nearly small enough to bother.