Most of my work is exposure adjustments when I screw up on the flash
work at events or else skin retouching on portraits. I assume Lightroom
will be perfect for the first but PhotoShop or Picture Window will be
used on the second.
Chuck Norcutt
swisspace wrote:
> CS2 is much much slower than 7 to start, I see about 10 to 12 secs
> startup time for photoshop 7. Maybe soe cs2 users can post their windows
> startup times.
>
> But if you just use photoshop to tweak your photos and not to add people
> in etc then once you have tried lightroom you won't use photoshop much
> and as you can multitask on these machines you can find plenty of other
> stuff to do while you wait.
>
> Ianw
>
> Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>
>>Oooh! 'Tis a bit slooooow. I've never thought about timing PhotoShop
>>startup... probably because I've never much noticed it. I only have PS
>>7 and not CS but I do have Win 2000 on my wheezy 5 year old 1.2GHz AMD
>>machine. But it does have 1-1/4GB RAM so I'm sure that helps.
>>
>>First time start on my machine is 8 seconds. That's without loading any
>>image. Obviously some DLL's get left in memory after shutting it down
>>since restarting it with a call from BreezeBrowser and passing it a 7MP
>>JPEG from the 5D at the same time takes only 6 seconds.
>>
>>Think I'll stay here a while longer. :-)
>>
>>Chuck Norcutt
>>
>>swisspace wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Unfortunately I can't give a startup time for cs2 on windows 2000
>>>(parallels) as it requires sp4 and I don't want to install that, but it
>>>takes around 35 secs to start in the mac environment on my intel macbook
>>>(dual 1.83 Ghz not latest chips). It is slower than the g4,g5 mac
>>>machines, but to be honest for photography I am beginning to think that
>>>lightroom is the holy grail depending upon how they price it, it is the
>>>osx front end to photo manipulation software I have been looking for and
>>>its a universal binary, I don't see me using CS2 very much at all, still
>>>I chanced on a half price upgrade of cs2 so it wasn't too bad an
>>>investment. Once running though it is fine to use.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>IanW
>>>
>>>Chris Barker wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>I don't find it a problem, either on my Core Duo MacBook or on my
>>>>Core 2 Duo iMac. The only delay is in the immediate startup when
>>>>Rosetta starts (presumably); that delay is miniscule and the
>>>>operation thereafter seems to be fine.
>>>>
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