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From: DeclanWorld on 18 Jun 2010 20:07
I've been asked to design a sports club banner (for free). The dimensions are 120" X 48". I've been working on a PSD with those dimensions at 300dpi but the file is massive and the machine struggles with it ( I have a Hewlett-Packard HP xw8400 Workstation with two 3.00 gigahertz Intel Xeon processors and 3MB RAM).

Any suggestions to make the job run quicker?

Declan

From: John Stafford on 19 Jun 2010 09:19
In article <MSTSn.8253$7y2.3938(a)hurricane>,
"DeclanWorld" <gummoPLEASENOSPAM(a)hotmail.com> wrote:

> I've been asked to design a sports club banner (for free). The dimensions
> are 120" X 48". I've been working on a PSD with those dimensions at 300dpi
> but the file is massive and the machine struggles with it ( I have a
> Hewlett-Packard HP xw8400 Workstation with two 3.00 gigahertz Intel Xeon
> processors and 3MB RAM).
>
> Any suggestions to make the job run quicker?

That's a job for vector imaging. The file will be tiny, but the image
will scale to anything you can print.
From: DeclanWorld on 19 Jun 2010 19:09
"Joel" <Joel(a)NoSpam.com> wrote in message
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> "DeclanWorld" <gummoPLEASENOSPAM(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I've been asked to design a sports club banner (for free). The
>> dimensions are 120" X 48". I've been working on a PSD with those
>> dimensions at 300dpi but the file is massive and the machine struggles
>> with it ( I have a Hewlett-Packard HP xw8400 Workstation with two 3.00
>> gigahertz Intel Xeon processors and 3MB RAM).
>>
>> Any suggestions to make the job run quicker?
>
> So you are working on 24:2 ratio, and most print job should be fine at
> 150-PPI, and should be fine with JPG format. Or if you save as TIFF then
> the size could be pretty large.
>
> The largest size I printed is around 36x24" and the size is around 12MB.
> So yours should be larger than 50-60MB the most (?). And I don't know if
> banner needs to be finer than portrait (?)
>
> Quicker? Photoshop loves memory and depending on the OS, if you run Win7
> 64-bit then it can benefit from lets say 8MB (6MB would do).
>

Thanks everyone for the advice. Joel, I've managed to save a maximum
quality JPG at 200 PPI at 12' x 4' - the file came to 15MB, so I'm happy
with that.

I had installed XP 64 bit some time ago to take advantage of the actual 10MB
of RAM in the machine but, after some of my other software refusing to run
on it, I reverted back to 32 bit.

The PC's very fast with my normal editing but I ran into a brick wall with
the scale of this job. The banner's needed for the start of July, so I have
no time to start learning the likes of Illustrator and get the job done by
then.

Thanks again.

DEclan



From: N on 20 Jun 2010 02:26

"Voivod" <Voi(a)vod.con> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 19 Jun 2010 20:11:38 -0500, Joel <Joel(a)NoSpam.com> scribbled:
>
>>> I had installed XP 64 bit some time ago to take advantage of the actual
>>> 10MB
>>> of RAM in the machine but, after some of my other software refusing to
>>> run
>>> on it, I reverted back to 32 bit.
>>
>> If I am not mistaken WinXP only recognized around 3MB (?), if more than
>>that then you will have to add some parameter to some thing somewhere I
>>have
>>read several times but I have very short memory.
>
> Could you guys try and get GIG and MEG straight in your heads. My
> Commadore Amiga had 3 MEGS of RAM....
>

But surely 3MB is all anyone would ever need :-)

--
N

From: Dave on 20 Jun 2010 03:16
On Sun, 20 Jun 2010 02:49:30 -0400, Voivod <Voi(a)vod.con> wrote:
>
>"640K ought to be enough for anybody."
>
>

Correct me if I'm wrong, I recall this as Bill Gates words

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