Performance Second Step Adobe Phot Shop

For The Memory

Adobe Photo Shop Lightroom loves RAM, lots and lots of RAM. The truth be known, all photo editing applications can benefi t from extra RAM. There are some natural limits to the amount of RAM you can stuff in your computer, like the maximum amount of RAM that your computer can hold, as well as how much RAM the operating system can eff ectively use. In addition to these limits, there are several factors that aff ect how much RAM Lightroom needs. One determining factor is the size of the camera image you are shooting. The size of the raw image produced by a 10.2 megapixel camera has greater memory needs than a camera with a 5 megapixel sensor.

As a general rule of thumb, anywhere from 1.5 to 2 GB of RAM is a good amount of memory for almost any image editing application. Many users view RAM in the way they treat vitamins. If a little is good, more is better. Just because your system allows the installation of large amounts of memory like 4 GB, don’t immediately assume that you need it.

Once you get beyond 2 GB in RAM, those reasonably priced memory modules suddenly become very expensive. Before making the leap, check out your memory usage while the application is running. In Windows, press Ctrl_Alt_Del and look at the Performance tab. In the example shown, only half of the 2 GB installed on the system is being used. If the memory on this particular system were doubled to 4 GB, the amount of RAM used by Lightroom would not change, and I would have paid more money for the fatter RAM modules than I paid for the original computer.

Computer For :

* Mac OS X 10.3, 10.4 or later, open Activity Monitor (/Applications/ Utilities/). For Mac OS X 10.2.8 or earlier, open ProcessViewer (/Applications/ Utilities/).

* Mac OS X processes and applications are listed in main window. In Mac OS X 10.3.9 and earlier, the ‘% Memory’ column indicates the percentage of RAM in use by an application or process at the time of sampling.

* In Mac OS X 10.4 or later, you can see the overall percentages of memory in use or idle at the bottom of the Activity Monitor window.

View of Windows Vista

Windows Vista and Lightroom were released within a few weeks of each other. While Lightroom works when run on a Windows Vista, there are a few hitches here and there, enough so that Adobe didn’t list Vista support along with Windows XP for the initial 1.0 release. Don’t get in a twist over this. Adobe wasn’t the only major vendor that didn’t immediately off er Vista support when Microsoft fi nally shipped it. Many Windows users now discovering that while Vista looks pretty, it generally slows down overall operation and they have returned to Windows XP.