What’s it Going to Take to Run Photoshop CS4? Adobe Photoshop is about as rich a program as you’ll ever encounter. But no quantity of tips, tricks, and workarounds can compensate for hardware that’s inadequate for the task, or a poorly configured system. Conrad Chavez and David Blatner look at building an environment in which Photoshop CS4 — and you can excel.
A Real World Guide to the Hardware You’ll Need
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 is an unnecessary bottleneck for the other parts.
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This article was excerpted from the book:
Real World Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Photographers
By Conrad Chavez, David Blatner
This edition of Real World Photoshop is more tightly focused for the needs and demands of the professional digital photographers. From acquiring images to using an efficient processing workflow to maintaining image quality and final output quality all within the powerful feature set of Adobe Photoshop CS4 and Photoshop Extended CS4.
Coverage of new features includes: live, non-destructive corrections in the Adjustments panel, re-editable, feathered, density controlled masks, enhanced auto-align, auto blend, 360 degree panoramas, and more.
