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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Date: 19 Aug 2015 17:08:10 GMT
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On 2015-08-19, Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> wrote:
> On 2015-08-19 16:21:06 +0000, Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> said:
>
>> That's certainly not what *I* told you. I'll repeat: Since you have not
>> yet established that lack of RAM is that cause of your issues, adding
>> RAM won't necessarily solve them. You need to do more research into what
>> is causing your problems.
>
> He pretty much put a finger on the cause of his iMac performance 
> problems when he told us how he edits with Photoshop.
>
> Maintaining 200 History States in Photoshop doesn't help.
> I have 16GB on my Mac and I do some layer intensive editing on RAW 
> files in PS, and I don't have the issues that Tom describes.
>
> 16 GB of RAM should be plenty if Tom actually employs a sane Photoshop 
> workflow. However, I don't hold out much hope that he is going to 
> change what he is doing now.

I've been away - just got caught up on this thread. Yep, if he doesn't
change his work flow to reduce his memory usage, he'll need more RAM.

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