Working with Large Tiff files (500 meg)

"steve kroeker" <s.kroeker DeleteThis @verizon.net> wrote in message
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> Hello,
> I recently purchased a Nikon Coolscan 8000. It does a great job on 2 1/4
size film.
> The files range from 420 meg to 600 meg.
> I have a Pentium 3, 1 Ghz and 512 meg of ram, and 500 gig of disks.
> These larger files (old files were 100 meg, tiff) are significantly slower
to work with.
> I probably should upgrade to P4 and 2+gigahz and 2 gig ram. But what
should
> my Photoshop setting be.

You want to give Photoshop all the memory it can use, which seems to be 2G.
To allow the OS and maybe the scanner to run at the same time, you need
about
3G of memory total. And get the fastest RAM you can afford.

Only 500G of disk space? You're going to use that up real fast!
Don't forget to keep at least two backups of everything important,
preferably three.

You might want one small but extremely fast hard drive for Photoshop
scratch use.
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On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 07:05:07 GMT, "steve kroeker"
<s.kroeker DeleteThis @verizon.net> wrote:

>Hello,
>I recently purchased a Nikon Coolscan 8000. It does a great job on 2 1/4
>size film.
>The files range from 420 meg to 600 meg.
>I have a Pentium 3, 1 Ghz and 512 meg of ram, and 500 gig of disks.
>These larger files (old files were 100 meg, tiff) are significantly slower
>to work with.
>I probably should upgrade to P4 and 2+gigahz and 2 gig ram. But what should
>my Photoshop setting be.

Gulp! So you're working in something less than PS4? I suggest you'd
better upgrade to PS7

And yes, you need a *lot* more RAM and a faster processor and a couple
of fast hard disks and a decent video card.

--

Hecate
Hecate DeleteThis @newsguy.com (Fried computers a specialty)
 >> Stay informed about: Working with Large Tiff files (500 meg) 

Hi Steve; I'm a professional portrait photographer and the largest file
size I work with is between 90 megs & 120 megs at most. For a professional
portrait 20"x24" in size ( a wall portrait) ..that would be about a 90
megabyte file. You are using overkill with the huge files. If you plan to
print on photo paper ....check what your printer wants. All my pro labs want
a 250 ppi resolution in a flattened .tif file. If you want to print them
yourself ..read what your maximum printer resolution will require. With a
600 meg file ...you could get a print the size of ads on the side of a bus.
I suggest you do some checking so you can get that reduced a lot. I agree
with suggestions on upgrades but first get your files in a manageable size.
Craig Flory

"steve kroeker" <s.kroeker.DeleteThis@verizon.net> wrote in message
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> Hello,
> I recently purchased a Nikon Coolscan 8000. It does a great job on 2 1/4
> size film.
> The files range from 420 meg to 600 meg.
> I have a Pentium 3, 1 Ghz and 512 meg of ram, and 500 gig of disks.
> These larger files (old files were 100 meg, tiff) are significantly slower
> to work with.
> I probably should upgrade to P4 and 2+gigahz and 2 gig ram. But what
should
> my Photoshop setting be.
> Thanks,
> Steve
>
>
 >> Stay informed about: Working with Large Tiff files (500 meg)