Re: how much memory for using Photoshop ?

"Bernard Cordier" <cordier-bernard@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> Hi,
> My daughter uses Photoshop CS2 with a A5 Wacom pen tablet. She draws
large 
> images like 6000 * 6000 px or more. Her PC is a Dell Dimension 5150 with
a 
> 2.4 GHZ processor and 2 GO RAM, which sounds comfortable enough to me. 
> However, working in that conditions turns out to be very slow. What
would be 
> the necessary power to work with comfort on a very large image with 
> Photoshop?
> Thanks.

	6000x6000 isn't that big (and doesn't mean much without the PPI).  Both
my
laptop and desktop have 4GB and the desktop doing fine with 12MP image (I
don't have CS3 installed on laptop).

	My grand-daughter uses CS3 on her Laptop, Vista with 2GB memory and she
thinks it's ok (she upgraded from 1GB cuz she said it was too slow).

	And for your daughter, here is few things you may try.

- 2GB should be ok, but you can upgrade to 3-4GB to speed thing up a
little.
The memory is so cheap these days.

- Make sure to have plenty of Disk Space for swapping.