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Do You Have Enough RAM? Ask Photoshop
Not sure if you have enough RAM? Just ask Photoshop. Believe it or not, it can tell you. Here’s how: Open a document that’s indicative of the type of image you normally work on. Work on the image, doing typical stuff, for about 10 minutes. Along the bottom left-hand corner of your document window, just to the right of the current document magnification readout, is the status bar. By default, it’s set to display your document’s file size, but if you click-and-hold on the right-facing triangle to the right of it, a pop-up menu of options will appear. Choose Show, then Efficiency. If the percentage shown is 100%, you’re gold, baby! That means that Photoshop is running at peak efficiency, because 100% of the time your image manipulations are being handled in RAM. If the efficiency number shown is, say, 75%, this means that 25% of the time, Photoshop ran out of RAM and had to use free hard drive space to make up for it, which means Photoshop ran much slower 25% of the time. An efficiency of 75% is pretty much as low as you want it to go. If it shows anything less than 75%, it’s time to buy more RAM. Pronto!
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Seim Effects said on — August 13, 2008 @ 2:53 pm
Sweet tip. Twittering it now I’m gonna check out my Mac Pro.
Gavin
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Moshe said on — August 13, 2008 @ 3:01 pm
The thing that’s been bothering me for months is what that rectangle with the X through it that pops up when you click on the status bar signifies. I finally got that it reflects the aspect ratio, but for what purpose?
Max Surikov said on — August 13, 2008 @ 3:03 pm
Am I missing something? How is it possible to have enough ram? Everytime I think I have enough, my computer slows down.
Karen said on — August 14, 2008 @ 6:33 am
Deke posted a photoshop Q&A on his blog a few weeks ago and I liked the answer to the question, “How much RAM do you need to use photoshop” The answer? “More than you have.” That made me laugh, because it is so true, RAM is like money, you can never have enough!
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