I downloaded Photoshop CS4 a few days back. Thought it might be necessary for editing pics/ making animations or GIFs etc for my website. Hell of a program it was on computer resources! I have a IBM R51 laptop. Now it's getting old & weak... poor laptop. It has got only 256 MB & 40 GB HDD. The page file size rose to 1.2 GB when I started CS4! Although the program itself is around 70 MB, it still needs a lot of memory for doing its image processing thing... The adobe people recommend 1+ GB RAM & 512MB absolute minimum. I wondered how it's even running on my R51? :)
I searched the online help on the adobe's website, there I read a tip that do not set the scratch disks the same as the ones the Windows is using for paging file. A scratch disk is a disk area that PS uses for doing its stuff. Then I changed this property in CS4's preferences & I got a far better performance than before!
I was really fed up with the slow behavior of photoshop before as I watched the tutorials on the YouTube. I saw the amazing speed with which those machines were doing the ops on the images. sometimes I started to read the newspaper in the meantime when an image was loading in it LOL. & sometimes I would get the "out of memory" error when I tried to save an image after much editing! What good is it if you cant save the image after all the editing?? Then I had to exit all the extra applications (which were already a few LOL) & then save the image.
It's for sure i need extra computing power now...
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