I have found (as near as dammit) my perfect photo. app. combination. CS2 with as much speed tweaking as possible plus Bridge from CS3. CS2 with tweaks runs like fast man on my G5quad mac and CS3Bridge gives all the sorting/viewing combinations I need. Brilliant. As a bonus 'the missus' gets to have the full CS3 on her imac which I can use if needed. Brill, all for the price of an upgrade. Yahoo!
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- Thread starter Sharkey
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I am not the brightest star at this sort of thing, but did three things that have made a real difference. First I cleaned my mac of everything to do with CS2 & CS3 (everything) and the ran as many cleaning, tidying and correcting progs that I could so that the HD was as pristeen as it could be.
Secondly I installed 4gig of ram (total 8gig) and set ram usage to 100% because as I dont run massive files 100mb upward I could afford to have as large a 'tile' size that I could get. finally there is a little prog on Adobe site that frees up how the ram/scratch disc works (dont ask me to explain), this also needs excess ram. Like I said no PS master class here. However if you go to the Adobe site and look forRam/Scratch disc and Tile size options you should find a more (no an actual explanation). Start with a CLEAN disc and install though, tiresome but necessary. Hope this doesn't dissapoint too much. Sorry I forgot that the download freeing ram etc from Adobe is primarily to prevent highspeed brush use from freezing. Knock on effect is to speed up ram use.
Secondly I installed 4gig of ram (total 8gig) and set ram usage to 100% because as I dont run massive files 100mb upward I could afford to have as large a 'tile' size that I could get. finally there is a little prog on Adobe site that frees up how the ram/scratch disc works (dont ask me to explain), this also needs excess ram. Like I said no PS master class here. However if you go to the Adobe site and look forRam/Scratch disc and Tile size options you should find a more (no an actual explanation). Start with a CLEAN disc and install though, tiresome but necessary. Hope this doesn't dissapoint too much. Sorry I forgot that the download freeing ram etc from Adobe is primarily to prevent highspeed brush use from freezing. Knock on effect is to speed up ram use.