HOW MUCH RAM FORPHOTO EDITING?

I have 512 MB Ram of which the average 'free RAM is'247MB - my O/S is
Windows XP. Is this enough RAM for editing scanned photos in tiff form(
these can be 20MB plus individually) or should I upgrade to 1GB - or
even MORE?!

Denis Boisclair
Cheshire, UK

That should be fine for small files...and 20MP is a small file. Do you have
a second hard drive? If you have an old hard drive setting around install it
and use that as your scratch disk. That will help too. In case you don't
know...its best to use layers so that your edits are not destructive. But,
when you start doing that your file sizes will jump ...and there is no such
thing as too much RAM...but you don't need it yet.


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I have 512 MB Ram of which the average 'free RAM is'247MB - my O/S is
Windows XP. Is this enough RAM for editing scanned photos in tiff form(
these can be 20MB plus individually) or should I upgrade to 1GB - or
even MORE?!

Denis Boisclair
Cheshire, UK

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I have 512 MB Ram of which the average 'free RAM is'247MB - my O/S is
Windows XP. Is this enough RAM for editing scanned photos in tiff form(
these can be 20MB plus individually) or should I upgrade to 1GB - or
even MORE?!

Denis Boisclair
Cheshire, UK


Photoshop really eats up RAM, more than just about any application. I'd
suggest 1GB. What if you try stitching a panorama?


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Paul Furman
http://www.edgehill.net/1
san francisco native plants

wrote:
I have 512 MB Ram of which the average 'free RAM is'247MB - my O/S is
Windows XP. Is this enough RAM for editing scanned photos in tiff form(
these can be 20MB plus individually) or should I upgrade to 1GB - or
even MORE?!

Denis Boisclair
Cheshire, UK

It's plenty, but don't be tempted to scan at higher than 300dpi. File
sizes can grow extremely fast if you seek to scan at higher resolution,
and prints don't have that much resolution. The only time would would
have a problem is when you try to magnify such an image for editing. If
you notice your processing going very slowly, with a lot of disk access,
then your probably need more ram.


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Ron Hunter

wrote:
I have 512 MB Ram of which the average 'free RAM is'247MB - my O/S is
Windows XP. Is this enough RAM for editing scanned photos in tiff form(
these can be 20MB plus individually) or should I upgrade to 1GB - or
even MORE?!

Denis Boisclair
Cheshire, UK

It's plenty, but don't be tempted to scan at higher than 300dpi. File
sizes can grow extremely fast if you seek to scan at higher resolution,
and prints don't have that much resolution. The only time would would
have a problem is when you try to magnify such an image for editing. If
you notice your processing going very slowly, with a lot of disk access,
then your probably need more ram.


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Ron Hunter

Really!My computer runs japanese (yes, all 2000 of letters loaded in memory)
and doom 3 in 1024X768@high with just 512 MB of ram.Windows 2k and xp are
very effective in memory usage and cpu load, but provided you have taken the
load of your computer of everything unnecesary running on the taskbar (check
it, if more than 3 icons on your taskbar appear then your computer is
overloaded).

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major in electrical engineering, freelance electrician
FH von Iraklion-Kreta, freiberuflicher Elektriker
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I have 512 MB Ram of which the average 'free RAM is'247MB - my O/S is
Windows XP. Is this enough RAM for editing scanned photos in tiff form(
these can be 20MB plus individually) or should I upgrade to 1GB - or
even MORE?!

Denis Boisclair
Cheshire, UK


Photoshop really eats up RAM, more than just about any application. I'd
suggest 1GB. What if you try stitching a panorama?


--
Paul Furman
http://www.edgehill.net/1
san francisco native plants

I have a gigabyte of Ram and it is ok for using Photoshop CS. But when I
upgrade to Photoshop CS2.0, I'll probably add another 512Megs.Youcan never
have too much ram, but it's little to not have enough..

Craig Flory

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I have 512 MB Ram of which the average 'free RAM is'247MB - my O/S is
Windows XP. Is this enough RAM for editing scanned photos in tiff form(
these can be 20MB plus individually) or should I upgrade to 1GB - or
even MORE?!

512 is good. If you really get serious, 1 GB is better. Don't over-scan,
by the way. 300 dpi is usually the maximum for most work and less works
fine much of the time.

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I have 512 MB Ram of which the average 'free RAM is'247MB - my O/S is
Windows XP. Is this enough RAM for editing scanned photos in tiff
form( these can be 20MB plus individually) or should I upgrade to 1GB
- or even MORE?!

More is never enough... =)

Though you can get by with 512 Mb - I did for a couple years here on
WinXP using Photoshop CS (and earlier) working with 4000 dpi slide scans
from my Nikon Coolscan - but I could see that PS was often hitting the
scratch disk. Upgraded to 1 Gb a few months ago and do see a halfway
decent performance improvement.

Not that Photoshop isn't capable still of bogarting it all and belching
for more... ;^)

Bob ^,,^

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I have 512 MB Ram of which the average 'free RAM is'247MB - my O/S is
Windows XP. Is this enough RAM for editing scanned photos in tiff form(
these can be 20MB plus individually) or should I upgrade to 1GB - or
even MORE?!

Denis Boisclair
Cheshire, UK

Much of that really depends upon how many steps you'd like to be able to
instantly "un-do" without waiting for info to swapped off of the hard-drive
(which eats time).

"History states" of image edits eat memory for lunch.
I like to keep as many states available as possible, so memory is key if
speed is to be maintained.
Windows itself needs a good chunk already, and Photoshop eats it too...even
BEFORE an image is loaded.
There is NEVER too much RAM...until your system won't recognize more.
Short of big RAM, a separate hard drive used as a dedicated scratch disk is
helpful...though nothing compares with tons of RAM. I have two GB RAM, but
would love more.