its part of the 'Photoshop Family'. Which means it's related to Photoshop in the way that Michael Corleone is related to Vito Corleone.
Bob > > Thanks John, good info. So everyone keeps mentioning LightRoom here. > Is this preferable to PhotoShop, or an orthogonal product altogether? > > rg > > > On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 1:59 PM, John Francis <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > The biggest drawback with laptops is the maximum memory > configuration; > > apart from that they are more than good enough for most purposes. > > > > My work machine (a Compaq 8710w) supposedly can support 4GB memory > sticks, > > so in theory can support 8GB of memory. But 4GB memory sticks are > hard to > > find (and 32-bit Windows won't address more than 3GB anyway), so > typical > > notebooks (2 DIMM slots) can often have a limit of 4GB physical RAM. > > > > You should be able to find a Core 2 Duo processor (speed 2.2 - 2.5 > GHz) > > and a dedicated graphics card (ATI or nVidia) and 500GB of had disk > space > > at a reasonable price; we paid roughly $700 for an HP with a 17" > display > > six months ago, and prices generally go down (just like camera > bodies). > > [We actually paid a little more than that, but that was to get a > second > > hard drive and Windows 7 64-bit Professional] > > > > The newer processors (i5, etc.) are even faster, but (of course) more > > expensive. I haven't found LR to be sluggish on my systems. But the > > memory size can be an issue, especially working with very large > images > > such as stitched panoramas; the I/O bandwidth from notebook drives is > > not as good as you can get from a SCSI RAID array. > > > > > > > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > [email protected] > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above > and follow the directions. > > > > > > -- > -- Reduce your Government Footprint > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
