Need help with sloooooow program

[Donna]

Hmmm.............

I was concerned that the 300 size would bog my puter down. But it really hasn't happened for me. I try to keep as few of my psd files on this computer--
but I still have lots of kits on it.

Have you tried a defrag lately?

I had that trouble with my laptop- I was able to install another RAM card and upgrade the one in there. There is a place where it tells the total RAM that your laptop can support.

I just use plain Jane- PSE 2.0 ( I'm just a little bit behind!)

I haven't had to resize at all- which really shocked me.

Hmmm just realized-- that since I'm using Panda software for my antivirus/spyware -- my computer has had minimal problems- compared to when I used Norton and other more popular ones. I get very little spyware -- although I do use Ad-aware and Spybot to find whatever might get thru- (VERY LITTLE) I bought my Panda off the web--and it was less than $20

Let us know if anything helps!

Donna

[Nzingha]

I know that sometimes changing the memory usage in PS can make a difference. Not to mention getting rid of alot of junk on my puter. I dunno if you can do this with your program or not.

[Frani_54]

Defragged, dejunked, did everything I could do....guess I'll be purchasing more Ram,

For Whisper Pink....What I do is resize each kit page as I use it....Mary what is the program you are talking about....will it do the whole kit at one time?

Fran

[Whisper Pink]

Yes I have the same question as Fran...will it do the whole file and the other question would be do you resize before you open the zip file??? that doesn't make much sense to me, so I am unsure what you mean by that, can you explain it a bit more, I guess I am being extremely blonde!!!

I also have defrag...ran all my spybot, etc...rebooted and have even tried it on a brand new puter with hardly anything on it, that has tons of everything on it, and still took way too long.

Fran when you resize each piece do you save in a different file or do you just save the original work as a resized piece???

Sorry for so many questions, but I would really like to understand the easiest and best way to do this!!!

Chris
aka Whisper Pink

[Frani_54]

When I resize I don't save the original, like Mary says, I really don't see a visual difference in the quality that prints out....

[Whisper Pink]

thanks I will give this a try and also watch this thread for additional comments!!!

What I do is I use each paper/element, I resize it and don't save it, so my original stays 300 ppi - someday I may get that extra RAM. I open the paper/element, then go to the Resize dialog box (under Image I think in PSP - I'm doing this from my work computer and don't have the program in front of me). Then I change the ppi to 200 and resize to 67% (since 200 ppi is 2/3 as dense as 300 ppi) to keep the physical size the same. I then copy the paper/element into my layout without saving the changes.

[Frani_54]

good idea, Maggie, I'll have to do that from now on....

[Birgit Kerr]

But shhhhh - don't tell the designers.

No need to shhhh ... this designer is having the same problem and I HAVE to design in 12x12 @300 dpi. It's the industry standard and I have wondered before what kind of wonder machine of a computer the people had that set this standard!!
Needless to say it's a SLOW process for me sometimes. I have as much RAM as my motherboard will take, so that's not the problem, I also tweaked the allocation - so it is only marginally a computer problem. It does seem to be worse for me in PSP than PS CS2 though.
I generally scrap in 8x8 @ 200 dpi these days though (I scrap in PSP almost exclusively) .... it gives me and the computer a little break! I do the same as Maggie. Resize, use it in the LO, but I don't save the changes, so I retain the original size and resolution.

[webmaster]

Another way to speed up PSP is to change the default on the Undo Preferences. File>General File Preferences>Undo. Change the mbs or the number of undos that PSP will do. The default number of undos is 250, which slows you down on larger files.