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aegeanmedusa
Joined: 11 Jan 2007
Posts: 3
Location: NYC
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 Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 4:41 pm Post subject: Working with LARGE canvas's, and HIGH DPI!!!! Help??! |
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Hello guys! this is my first post, and I plan on being nice and active here, since I use photoshop EVERY DAY, although I am still just a well weathered novice.
My questions is this: What should I do cut down the almost frozen status of my computer when Im working with gigantic canvas sizes AND 300DPI?
the project in question is a 6 foot x 3 foot banner, that will be printed out, so the DPI has gotta be 300.....
but when im doing the simplest things, paint bucketing, using the paintbrush, it "loads" for a good few minutes for each move... at this rate, Im going to finish sometime 2 years after the deadline.
is there a way around this?
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lasa
Joined: 08 Aug 2005
Posts: 1090
Location: Florida
PS Version: CS
OS: MS XP
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aegeanmedusa
Joined: 11 Jan 2007
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Lasa, I got a
Intel Pentium 4CPU 2.20 GHz
2.19 GHz, 768 mb of RAM
using WIndows XP Professional version 2002
and Photoshop Educational Version CS 8.0
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lasa
Joined: 08 Aug 2005
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I would assume you would be working slow but not dead..with 768 of ram at that sizet... hopefully somebody here know more about large print.
Lasa
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Rikki
Joined: 31 Aug 2006
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Location: Glasgow
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it does not need to be 300dpi! i am assuming you would be using a large format printer to print the banner, in which case you can afford to lose half the dpi or more!
basically the large format printers have 6 ink cartridges, and when set to 300dpi print, all 6 print at that, so you get a 1800dpi print (roughly). I printed full colour logo's at 56dpi onto a banner and they were perfectly readable. (56x6 is more than 300)
Hope this helps.
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Mr_Omen
Joined: 25 Nov 2006
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Location: Ohio
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It is almost definately a RAM bottleneck. At least 1gb of RAM is my recommendation, but 2GB will be ideal. I recently upgraded from 1GB to 2GB and I noticed a huge difference in rendering speeds. Aslo, do you have a AGP or PCI Express video card? If you are just using onboard video then that is another issue. I would get yourself at decent 512MB video card, maybe GeForce or ATI. That will help a lot too. |
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