[rollei_list] Re: Photoshop question: Saving of very large images

Set the virtuel ram so that photoshop uses the hard drive for the 
operation - will take long - but worth the effort
do not save large files as jpg - jpg suck for anything but web use
use tif  format - cheers Ruben

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dirk-Roger Schmitt" <Dirk-Roger.Schmitt@xxxxxx>
To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 3:05 PM
Subject: [rollei_list] Photoshop question: Saving of very large images


> Hi folks,
>
> I have a special problem with Photoshop CS. I am  scanning all my 6x6
> slides at 4800 dpi and get an image with a size of appr. 300 MB.
> After some tweaking in Photoshop, I want to save it as JPG, with the JPG
> option "baseline optimized" instead of "baseline standard" to get a
> slightly smaller JPG file size.
>
> Although this option did work during the last months on my computer, since
> one week it does not work any more on the same computer.
> Everytime a get a error message "saving of photo not possible due to too
> small RAM size".
>
> However, my Ram has a size of 1.7 GB.
>
> In the "edit" menue of Photoshop "ram and cache" I tried to assign
> different volumes of this ram to Photoshop, from 50 % to 90 %, but this 
> did
> not help.
>
> During the processing Photoshop is doing with the image I observe the ram
> use in the Windows task manager, and only 10 % of the ram are used at any 
> time.
>
> How can it come that Photoshop generates this error message? Is this a 
> well
> known problem of Photoshop?
>
>
> Has anybody an idea what I can do?
>
>
> Thanks a lot
>
>
>
> Dirk
>
>
>

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