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Real World Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Photographers: Industrial-Strength Imaging Techniques
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Real World Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Photographers: Industrial-Strength Imaging Techniques

by Conrad Chavez, David Blatner
December 2008
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
600 pages
18h 5m
English
Peachpit Press
Content preview from Real World Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Photographers: Industrial-Strength Imaging Techniques

Chapter One. Building a Photoshop System

Adobe Photoshop is about as rich a program as you’ll ever encounter, and much of this book focuses on ways to help you be more efficient in your use of it. But no quantity of tips, tricks, and work-arounds can compensate for hardware that’s inadequate for the task or a poorly configured system. So in this chapter, we look at building an environment in which Photoshop—and you—can excel.

When buying a computer, consumers tend to fixate on raw processor speed. However, Photoshop also makes heavy demands on random access memory (RAM) and hard drives. Whatever system you choose, it will be most productive with Photoshop when the capabilities of the processor, RAM, and disks are balanced so that none of the three ...

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