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

Ruben,

I was assinging the harddrive avirtual ram, but it did not help!

Dirk


At 15:21 18.02.2005, you wrote:
>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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