Re: Fw: Entry Level Negative Scanners

[petermarshall@xxxxxxxxx (Peter Marshall)]

> One important issue is memory on the PC - uncompressed
> TIFF images with 16m colours give big image files (~30Mbytes) and if 
> you are
> joining two images at that resolution your PC starts paging very 
> quickly.
> However, you can always make a cup of tea...

I do similar things and find that bmps load faster than even uncompressed 
tiffs - don't know why that should be. Also that Photoshop loads them 
faster than the other graphics programs I have, so I use this for joining 
- it is pretty fast to do them 'manually' in it, and more accurate than 
the software I have that does it automatically.  

Once joined there is often quite a bit of retouching to do, where 
Photoshop is also pretty useful. 

Putting an extra 64Mb of memory in to my 32Mb machine made a huge 
difference also - and it helps to free as much memory as possible, for 
example by clearing the clipboard.

Peter Marshall

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