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Newbie: Computer configuration for photo-editing.
I ask bacuse I am learning Photoimpact 7 on a K6 600mhz with 384M RAM,
editing 2048x1536 jpgs. So far seems OK.---changing brightness, rubbing out wrinkles, one or two layers ..etc. Why are people talking about 2.6Ghz , 1G RAM , RAID ,superfast video cards......etc. What am I missing? Which editing procedure will need all that power? Thanks ABC Reply to NG please |
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editing 2048x1536 jpgs. So far seems OK.---changing brightness, larger file sizes do have impact as does RAW and TIFF due to larger file sizes. Remember that some users of pro quality editing software really have very demanding uses and huge image sizes to work with If what you are using works OK it probably is OK Aerticeus |
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editing 2048x1536 jpgs. So far seems OK.---changing brightness, larger file sizes do have impact as does RAW and TIFF due to larger file sizes. Remember that some users of pro quality editing software really have very demanding uses and huge image sizes to work with If what you are using works OK it probably is OK Aerticeus |
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Photo editing, in general, is not a resource hog. And even with BIG files,
buying the most RAM you can afford will generally be all you NEED to do to get the job done. The extras will make the job easier, faster, more fun, or provide an extra level of disaster recovery. For instance, the basic graphics card that came with your PC (Which probably grabs extra memory from RAM when it needs it) will work just fine with Photoshop or PhotoImpact. BUT, a slightly better mid/high level graphics card that comes with a larger amount of its own dedicated memory, will display changes you make to the image faster than the basic card. This may or may not be important to the amateur, but to a professional, where time is money, it may be worth it to spring for a faster graphics card. A faster processor will apply changes faster. A RAID array helps guarantee that you won't lose your valuable images. None of these things are essential to photo editing, and most people don't buy them until they have a pretty firm idea of what area of their photo editing chores they want to improve. "ABC" wrote in message ... I ask bacuse I am learning Photoimpact 7 on a K6 600mhz with 384M RAM, editing 2048x1536 jpgs. So far seems OK.---changing brightness, rubbing out wrinkles, one or two layers ..etc. Why are people talking about 2.6Ghz , 1G RAM , RAID ,superfast video cards......etc. What am I missing? Which editing procedure will need all that power? Thanks ABC Reply to NG please |
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On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 15:29:02 +0800, ABC wrote:
I ask bacuse I am learning Photoimpact 7 on a K6 600mhz with 384M RAM, editing 2048x1536 jpgs. So far seems OK.---changing brightness, rubbing out wrinkles, one or two layers ..etc. Why are people talking about 2.6Ghz , 1G RAM , RAID ,superfast video cards......etc. What am I missing? Which editing procedure will need all that power? You don't need the latest video card for photo editing. It depends on how long you are prepared to wait for your software to do something. I have a 1.2Ghz system and its plenty fast for my Photoshop needs. |
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On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 15:29:02 +0800, ABC wrote:
I ask bacuse I am learning Photoimpact 7 on a K6 600mhz with 384M RAM, editing 2048x1536 jpgs. So far seems OK.---changing brightness, rubbing out wrinkles, one or two layers ..etc. Why are people talking about 2.6Ghz , 1G RAM , RAID ,superfast video cards......etc. What am I missing? Which editing procedure will need all that power? You don't need the latest video card for photo editing. It depends on how long you are prepared to wait for your software to do something. I have a 1.2Ghz system and its plenty fast for my Photoshop needs. |
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ABC wrote in message . ..
I ask bacuse I am learning Photoimpact 7 on a K6 600mhz with 384M RAM, editing 2048x1536 jpgs. So far seems OK.---changing brightness, rubbing out wrinkles, one or two layers ..etc. Why are people talking about 2.6Ghz , 1G RAM , RAID ,superfast video cards......etc. What am I missing? Which editing procedure will need all that power? Thanks ABC Reply to NG please So far, you do not seem to be doing the things that really strain computer power. Gaussian blur and some fancy filters will take longer than the things you mention. Resizing can also take some time if you use some of the fancier algorithms for interpolation. I worked many years with a setup like yours before recently upgrading. It worked fine, but some of the fancier functions did take awhile. |
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ABC wrote in message . ..
I ask bacuse I am learning Photoimpact 7 on a K6 600mhz with 384M RAM, editing 2048x1536 jpgs. So far seems OK.---changing brightness, rubbing out wrinkles, one or two layers ..etc. Why are people talking about 2.6Ghz , 1G RAM , RAID ,superfast video cards......etc. What am I missing? Which editing procedure will need all that power? Thanks ABC Reply to NG please So far, you do not seem to be doing the things that really strain computer power. Gaussian blur and some fancy filters will take longer than the things you mention. Resizing can also take some time if you use some of the fancier algorithms for interpolation. I worked many years with a setup like yours before recently upgrading. It worked fine, but some of the fancier functions did take awhile. |
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ABC writes:
I ask bacuse I am learning Photoimpact 7 on a K6 600mhz with 384M RAM, editing 2048x1536 jpgs. So far seems OK.---changing brightness, rubbing out wrinkles, one or two layers ..etc. Why are people talking about 2.6Ghz , 1G RAM , RAID ,superfast video cards......etc. What am I missing? Which editing procedure will need all that power? It all depends on the size of image you are dealing with, how patient you are, and whether you have to pay for the time you wait. I occasionally used to work with 100 MB+ images on an old Mac with 40 MHz processor, and 24 MB of total memory. It worked; I just had to wait for Photoshop to load the image tile by tile, apply the filter, and go on to the next tile. But that was when 16 MB of memory cost $600. In general, photo editors slow down greatly when you can't fit a couple of copies of the image you are working on in memory. Your 3 MP images take 9 MB each, so you have room for lots of them. But some people work on 8 MP, 16 MP, or even 50 MP images, and those obviously require more memory to keep from forcing the computer to use disk instead of memory. Also, your K6 is probably in a motherboard that uses older SIMM memory. This is rather slow at moving data from memory into the CPU. I once compared my wife's K6-2 333 MHz machine with my Pentium II-350 for some Photoshop work. The K6 was just about as fast as the PII for computationally expensive operations, but for just scrolling around in a large image the PII was at least twice as fast. The PII used PC100 DIMM memory, which provided twice as much data to the CPU per fetch. Today's computers have memory bandwidths that are several times again what that PII machine could do. Finally, if you're editing a few photos as a hobby, it doesn't matter if you have to wait a while for operations. If you do this as a business, time spent waiting is effectively time you aren't getting paid, so it's worth spending more for faster hardware. Dave (who just upgraded his fastest machine to a Pentium 3-1000) |
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thanks very much.
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