Hi there,
I'm a long time Lightroom user, and I recently purchased Photoshop in order to do some more advanced editing. I'm using a MacBook Air 11.6 with 4 gigs of ram and upgraded CPU. I use this because I'm going to be traveling the third world for the better part of next year and need something portable, with decent power. I have CS5 Extended 12.02 for Mac OS installed.
I've begun digging into Photoshop CS5 tutorials in order to get up to speed as quickly as possible...and I've hit a major major snag.
The Quick Select tool is so slow that it's unusable. I'm using an image from a Canon 5D2. When I go to use the tool by clicking on an area I want to quick select, Photoshop seems to go away for anywhere between 30 seconds to five minutes and then makes a selection, which is typically only a very small area of what I'm intending to select. Each additional click to expand the area results in the same (Photoshop buggers off for a while, and it selects a little bit more).
Now, my machine is not a power house, but I would expect that it would have enough horse power for this function!
Any ideas? Without this, there isn't much I can do with Photoshop. I want cut something out (remove the background). I was going to do quick select, and then use the edge refinement tool. Any help is appreciated!
I did some googling and I did not find any mention of similar problems, which leads me to think something else is going on aside from my machine's power. Also, I checked the minimum requirements and my machine seems to more than meet those.
Thanks,
thean |
Glad that you found a solution - thanks for sharing it.
