Tell me about it. I regularly have files that end up larger than 2GBeach
after adding layers in Photoshop. I keep my files 16 bit all the way
through, and I save the layered files as well as a flattened version. I save
the flattened one so I have a reasonably small, easy to open file for when I
need to make a print, and I keep the layered file in case I decide to make
changes. Hard drives fill fast, but they're reasonably inexpensive now, so I
don't sweat it. My old Mac G4 still handles them well and doesn't slow down.
The only slow thing about working with a 2 or 3 GB layered file on my old
Mac is opening and saving....and I suspect the hard drive itself is the
bottleneck there, not the computer.
--
Chris Crawford
Photography & Graphic Design
Fort Wayne, Indiana
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On 3/31/08 5:45 PM, "james king" <jking@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> If you scan medium format at *full* resolution and *full* colour depth
> (including keeping the infra red channel) and do not use any compression
> the files are HUGE. one frame is 6x4.5 frame is 450Mbytes. A roll of
> 6x4.5 will not even fit on a single layer (4.7Giga Byte) dvd! editting
> such files in photoshop eats memory like crazy and the main problem is
> storing the scans, hard disks fill up very quickly when one
>
> James
>
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