.tif files

How can I make it faster when opening .tif files..
it's driving me insane. I'm working with really large images, but it shouldn't take that long.

Thanks for your help in advance.

the only solutions are more memory or a better computer.

How much memory does your system have?

Photoshop is a huge memory hog.

Also try purging. File----Purge

Let me know.

Jim

there's this program that deactivates some plugins and fonts if you want
while loading photoshop, its freeware if i find it again i'll let you know..

that might be useful, sliver, but on the long run i would invest in some more ram, it will speed up all of your programs.

where do I find that info. about ram and memory on my computer?

definetely that would be the most common solution!

control panel/system... i think!

How big are these tif files you are opening?

must be really big files then, i'm guessing at 300dpi

they are on an external hard drive..

an average of 300,000 kb

I guess I just have to learn to be more patient huh HAHA

sounds like a scratch disk problem. You may want to optimize them

I could write down how to do this, but why waste my time on it if it's already written down somewhere on the net

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1910621,00.asp

You might want to read to complete article too, it's very interesting on how to optimize photoshop performance. (alltough written with CS 2 in mind, much of these operations can be done with older versions too, the how might be slightly different)

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1910615,00.asp

You could also do things to speed up Windows XP. There's several things that suck system resources down.

Turn off visual styles (the "pretty" XP interface) to go back to the standard windows interface. Also get rid of your desktop background (go to a solid black). Turn off any unneeded services that are running in the background. Etc. etc. etc.

There's tons of sites with tips on how to speed up XP. BUT beware that some of the suggestions are best left to those that know what the step does. Only apply the ones you feel comfortable with.

http://www.how2setup.org/en/wiki/index.php?title=Speed_up_Windows_XP
http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/2005/12/3/645
http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/2005/12/5/652
http://www.blifaloo.com/info/winxp_speed.php

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