Re: Photoshop USM and CMYK conversion

[Glenn Barry <glenn@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sounds as though you coud do with another scratch disk.

zxiong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> >What size files are you working on? Are you working on more than one at a time?
> >A 4GB scratch file is huge!
>
> Panoramic images of about 12x40 inch at 300dpi.  A single image wouldn't crush
> the system. When I put three of them onto one image file to create a 4x5 tranny
> at >3000 dpi I couldn't flatten the layers because 4GB wasn't enough.
> Eventually I down-sampled the files and got my tranny out.  One single 12x40
> image is a little over 100MB in RBG and about 150MB in CMYK.  Using layers
> the file size could easily double or triple.  When it comes to scratch files,
> photoshop sometimes require spaces over 10 times of the actual file size.
>
> Zonghou Xiong

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