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Old January 11th 09, 12:10 AM posted to rec.photo.digital
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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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