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 12/20/2006 02:27:56 PM · #1
I am happily playing on my new much faster computer :)
Am seeking advise on the best screen settings to view photography and any other advise an what I should do to my new computer to enhance my photography work and viewing
 12/20/2006 02:32:18 PM · #2
were going to need some base line info first like what kind of monitor, LCD or CRT and what size, if you know what video card that would be great also, what operating system are you using, what software are you using to edit your pics. From there we should be able to help a little easier. The monitor is important size and model if its an LCD.

-dave
 12/20/2006 02:40:01 PM · #3
Monitor profiling devices review. There's so good info on printer profiling there also.
 12/20/2006 02:50:44 PM · #4
Originally posted by dknourek:
were going to need some base line info first like what kind of monitor, LCD or CRT and what size, if you know what video card that would be great also, what operating system are you using, what software are you using to edit your pics. From there we should be able to help a little easier. The monitor is important size and model if its an LCD.

-dave


We are using windows media centre as our operating system we have a flat screen 19 inch LCD monitor (Chimei) and I use photoshop 7 with the strong possibility of getting CS2 the video card is nvidia Gforce 6300 appreciate any sage words!
 12/20/2006 02:55:31 PM · #5
Max out the RAM.
 12/20/2006 03:19:59 PM · #6
Got 2 gigs
 12/20/2006 03:21:30 PM · #7
1st thing, RAM: Don't even think of putting more than 2gb of ram unless your running a 64bit machine and a 64bit OS. Windows 32bit OS's like 98', 2000, XP, MCE... will only use about 1.7gb to 1.8gb of physical ram, you can put 4gb of ram in the machine and it will say that you have 4gb installed but the OS will not use anything over about 1.7gb, you can use a "/3GB" switch in your boot.ini that will increase that to just under 3gb that the OS will actually use but it doesn't work on all machines. This is a limitation of the OS and not the hardware. Now if your running XP64 then it will use something like 164TB of ram if you could actually get that on board ;)

Anyway back to the main subject, your LCD's optimum operating resolution is most likely 1280x1024 and your video card will handle that with no problems. Try to make sure all your drivers are up to date. For a cheep fix your install of PS7 should have had a small app that loads at start up called Adobe Gamma that can be used to create a custom ICC colour profile for your monitor. I cant remember the colour correction menus atm for PS7 but if you take your time setting it up then you should be good to go. There are usually profiles already provided for monitors, printers etc and you may have to try a few different ones to optimise it for your system. Also what may make things a little easier is shoot a test card or something that has a range of different colours on it and match the monitor to the digital pic and then the printer to the monitor if your using one. If you are having photos printed at a service provider ask if they could provide you with an ICC profile for their equipment, keep in mind that they may or may not have any idea what you are talking about.

Anyway Ill stop my rambling now and hopefully this will be a good starting point for you anyway...

-dave
12/20/2006 04:50:14 PM · #8
Originally posted by dknourek:
1st thing, RAM: Don't even think of putting more than 2gb of ram unless your running a 64bit machine and a 64bit OS. Windows 32bit OS's like 98', 2000, XP, MCE... will only use about 1.7gb to 1.8gb of physical ram, you can put 4gb of ram in the machine and it will say that you have 4gb installed but the OS will not use anything over about 1.7gb, you can use a "/3GB" switch in your boot.ini that will increase that to just under 3gb that the OS will actually use but it doesn't work on all machines.


Actually that's not true. 32bit versions of windows can still use more than 2GB of physical RAM, it's virtual address space that's limited. Not the same thing.

However, I wouldn't stick more than 2GB in such a machine anyway, because it's unlikley that you'll need it just now.
 12/20/2006 05:18:40 PM · #9
yes it can use more than 2GB but only with the /3GB switch. I know as Ive been fighting with MS for a few years now because of this as my 3D software can easily use way more than what the OS can provide as far as physcial ram goes...

-dave
 12/20/2006 05:26:23 PM · #10
Originally posted by dknourek:
yes it can use more than 2GB but only with the /3GB switch. I know as Ive been fighting with MS for a few years now because of this as my 3D software can easily use way more than what the OS can provide as far as physcial ram goes...



Irrespective of the 3GB switch.

//blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2004/08/11/212720.aspx

Only virtual address space is limited to 2GB. Although for XP it's probably much of a muchness, being as the OS itself only allows for 4Gig if I remember rightly.
 12/20/2006 09:59:19 PM · #11
thanks for your help :)
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