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when using photoshop does the graphics card play a large part, a friend of mine is a real techno, he says you need a good graphics card, if you use a 24 megapixel camera, to get the best image to process, is this true? Thanks in advance
 
No thats bunkum, high end graphics cards are designed for complex 3D and Rendering etc for games running at very high frame rates. Most of the work on photoshop is CPU intensive not GPU intensive, more important is decent amount of ram and fast HDD.
 
Ok thank you, at the moment I have a Radeon card in, was thinking of upgrading it, I never play games though, so it is just for photoshop.
 
There are circumstances where the GPU can speed up the processing of an image but it can't affect the quality.
 
Thanks Jonathan, will check what mine is, and see what you guys think
 
Even if people tell you that a graphics card is only more suited to heavy hardcore gaming, the sort of games like 'Call of Duty' and such and so on, and that photo editing software like Photoshop don't need to rely on graphics card, and can manage on processor and memory alone, it would still be good idea to get one anyway. You could benefit with the graphics card offering to support more than one monitor, such as that you could be editing your photos on one screen, and have the second screen for any other work or Internet or watching videos or whatever you like.

I usually often do some typing in a word processor, highlight the text, copy it, switch windows for the graphic design software (in my case CorelDraw) and paste. But it would help a lot if I have two screens so I don't have to keep using Alt+Tab or going to the task bar to switch windows all the time.

You could also still use a graphics card in case you one day decided to go for 3D work.

You don't have to, but I would find it helpful anyway, I'm still learning about graphics cards as I'm planning on buying one for my project to build my own computer, and as far as I can tell, those cards often kind of helps to take over some of the display workload from the CPU and RAM if the going gets too tough for them.
 
Major easy
Thanks for the info, I won't be gaming, won't have two screens either, I just use my computer for photoshop & editing programs, so I don't want an over the top purchase, thanks for the read though
 
Jango said:
Major easy
Thanks for the info, I won't be gaming, won't have two screens either, I just use my computer for photoshop & editing programs, so I don't want an over the top purchase, thanks for the read though
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That's okay, a low end or budget graphics card would do fine if you want one, I agree with you that you do not need an over the top purchase graphics card, so a low-end or budget one would still help, even if you don't do gaming much nor want two screens, there would come a time when you could end up actually doing too much photo editings at one time. Who knows, you may actually end up with a dozen open windows in your Photoshop, and you may be doing editing work on each, if it happens, it's just a bit of hard work for the CPU and RAM, but thankfully nowadays CPU and RAM are as powerful as they can be, and cope fine, but in the old days of CPUs rated at like 500MHz and RAM that's only around 528MB, even a major editing work can slow it down, you would wait second after seconds to see the effects on your image changed.

In the unlikely event should you actually end up doing too much editing work, a low-end card will help with displaying the images while the CPU and RAM get on with the work their ones and zeros stuff.

By the way, it's Eazy, with a z not s.
 
Like Minnelli :)
 
Thanks Major Eazy, for the info, sorry about the name earlier:)
 
Jango said:
Thanks Major Eazy, for the info, sorry about the name earlier:)
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No worries.

You mention you have a Radeon card, without knowing which model it is, I would guess it's good enough for your needs, just leave it as it is, no need for upgrade.

You would only need it for heavy gaming or more than one monitor, but otherwise, as you did point out that you just want to do Photoshop and editing, so just leave your Radeon card as it is.

If you find your work struggling, it's really the RAM you need to think about upgrading, not the graphics card.
 
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