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Pentax DA 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 AF

02/10/2005 02:27:14 AM · #1

My PC is a good old second hand Cyrix III 196RAM.
It serves me good (almost 3 years now)
I do all my work on it running PS 6.
I do have NeatImage and it works fine the only thing is that it takes ages to do the job and sometimes it just freezes my machine.
I also have the Kodak Digital Gem 1.1 which is much faster but the results are not so good.
Another weird thing is that my NI won't open any jpg file if runned by itself (only TIFF or BMP). It works for jpg just as a plug in in PS, but this makes things slower!
Any suggestions?
How Ninja Noise and can I find a copy for free?
I do need something cause my poor A70 needs some help in this matter. Specially when I try to shot for some stock.
And please don't suggest to change my PC. I try to save for a better camera (eventualy a dSLR noise free one...)

faidoi

Pentax K10D

02/10/2005 02:33:59 AM · #2

I also have a slow computer. Things seem faster when I close PS before starting NI.

Sony 24-70mm F4 Vario-Tessar T* FE OSS

02/10/2005 02:40:11 AM · #3

Originally posted by faidoi:

I also have a slow computer. Things seem faster when I close PS before starting NI.

This mean that I have first to save the file first as TIFF then run the NI.

Bear_Music

Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra

02/10/2005 03:41:14 AM · #4

You should not be working on jpg files anyway, every time you save them you lose more information. You should save your camera files as tiff as soon as you open them, or better yet as psd.

Robt.

Olympus 9-18mm f/4.0-5.6 M.Zuiko Digital ED

02/10/2005 05:09:11 AM · #5

I do work with psd.
One more question: I know few about hardware.
Will graphic card help me?
Thanks!

jonr

Olympus OM-D E-M5

02/10/2005 05:59:17 AM · #6

Originally posted by Tiberius:

I do work with psd.
One more question: I know few about hardware.
Will graphic card help me?
Thanks!

No. All Photoshop functions are run on the CPU. But it could help to give you more colours at higher resolutions.

BobsterLobster

Fujifilm FinePix S3 Pro

Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR II

02/10/2005 06:02:04 AM · #7

More RAM will probably make loads of difference, and is very cheap.