Adobe memory usage and general questions

[Guest]

Yesterday I had asked whiich version of Adobe Photoshop would be best on my
computer. Im just bringing this message back because I have new questions
about it. I have a 900 Mhz AMD Athlon with 384 MB of PC133 RAM. Yesterday,
someone told me that ALL photoshops are to power-hungry for my computer. Now
that I understand that, is there anyway that I can either reduce the memory
usage that my current photoshop elements 4 is using? If not, then my question
will be: Does any version use less memory than the other? More specifically,
does Photoshop use more than Photoshop Elements?
And a non-hardware related question... Are there any plug-ins for photoshop
that allow me to use masks or something? And lastly, is there any site out
there geared specifically toward Photoshop Elements 4 Tutorials?
Thanks in advance.

 

[David Candy]

Have you thought about asking Adobe rather than Microsoft about Adobe's product.

 

[Alias]

Have you thought about asking Adobe rather than Microsoft about Adobe's product.

Microsoft posts here? Since when?

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[Alias]

Yesterday I had asked whiich version of Adobe Photoshop would be best on my
computer. Im just bringing this message back because I have new questions
about it. I have a 900 Mhz AMD Athlon with 384 MB of PC133 RAM. Yesterday,
someone told me that ALL photoshops are to power-hungry for my computer. Now
that I understand that, is there anyway that I can either reduce the memory
usage that my current photoshop elements 4 is using? If not, then my question
will be: Does any version use less memory than the other? More specifically,
does Photoshop use more than Photoshop Elements?
And a non-hardware related question... Are there any plug-ins for photoshop
that allow me to use masks or something? And lastly, is there any site out
there geared specifically toward Photoshop Elements 4 Tutorials?
Thanks in advance.

I have a 800 Mhz AMD Athlon and 256MB of PC100 RAM and Photoshop 6 works
just fine on it.

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[Guest]

I have but for the following reasons, I didn't: I have an account here, I
figured I would get a user's opinion instead of a customer support agent, I
figured this would be the best place for telling me how to keep my system
emory usage to a minimum... Thanks in advance.

 

[Guest]

Wow... It's not even the slightest bit slow?... Ok, thanks for that
information. Anybody else got some opinions?

 

[Mike Williams]

I have but for the following reasons, I didn't: I have an account here, I
figured I would get a user's opinion instead of a customer support agent,

Adobe does have customer forums...who are presumably more focused on and
experienced with these issues.

 

[Al Dykes]

Adobe does have customer forums...who are presumably more focused on and
experienced with these issues.

This is a new tech note and it addresses CS2 on all OS and HW platforms;

http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/320005.html

 

[Gerry Cornell]

Why haven't you increased RAM from 384 gb, which is not a lot
for Windows XP?


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[Al Dykes]

Why haven't you increased RAM from 384 gb, which is not a lot
for Windows XP?

Max out the memory on your PC. PC133 memory is cheap when you can find it
in an old computer.

Go to crucial.com and find your make/model to find out what your max is.

 

[Guest]

I haven't updated my memory beause I basically dont want to throw to much
into ths computer then get a new one in one or 2 years (which is what I plan

 

[Alias]

I haven't updated my memory beause I basically dont want to throw to much
into ths computer then get a new one in one or 2 years (which is what I plan
on doing). But your right. I should. If it is really cheap, I might buy some.
But nothing more than $15 CDN for a 128 stick. Is that possible?

www.crucial.com

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[Guest]

I didn't see any PC133 Ram on crucial.com that was really cheap. Especially
for it being USD. I think what I'd belooking for is a used computer store in
town that sells this kind of crap.

 

[Alias]

I didn't see any PC133 Ram on crucial.com that was really cheap. Especially
for it being USD. I think what I'd belooking for is a used computer store in
town that sells this kind of crap.

Take the crucial online test so you can know what RAM you need and, yes,
a used computer store would be cheaper.

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[Guest]

Ok, so I called the computer store and the guy is telling me about high and
low density RAM. He says that they will have to test my computer in order to
tell me what that is. Does anyone in here know of a way to do that myself?
Whether I use Aida32 or something thats already on my computer....

 

[David Candy]

You could read the manual.

 

[Mike Williams]

Why haven't you increased RAM from 384 gb, which is not a lot
for Windows XP?

384 MB isn't. 384 GB may be more standard in a decade.

 

[Alias]

Ok, so I called the computer store and the guy is telling me about high and
low density RAM. He says that they will have to test my computer in order to
tell me what that is. Does anyone in here know of a way to do that myself?
Whether I use Aida32 or something thats already on my computer....

Like I said, take the Crucial online RAM test.

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[Gerry Cornell]

What is the make and model of your motherboard?

This freeware programme is excellent for getting information
about your computer:
Everest Home Edition (freeware)
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4181.html

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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