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Photoshop CS4 hardware question
On Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:38:57 -0600, Longfellow wrote:
I'm planning on building a PC dedicated to Photoshop CS4 and the latest Lightroom. I'm told that for a workflow that does not depend on continuous coffee breaks to allow the machine to crunch image data, a very powerful machine is requisite. I'm told that a 64 bit system with as much RAM as one can afford is what makes it possible to fiddle with multiple layers and do extensive comparison of effects, etc. I do know that a timely response from the machine is necessary to keep the creative juices from stagnating (shriveling on the vine, so to speak), so those requirements make some sense to me. OTOH, I'm told that CS4 runs just fine on much less powerful systems, that a 32 bit system is more than enough to handle anything that one might want to do with Photoshop. As I don't have access to the code of Photoshop, I can't evaluate it's ability to shine on such systems, but I'm not that sanguine about coding miracles from Adobe in any case. Perhaps you should consider GIMP - you'd have access to the source code. |
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