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Hello everyone,
My sister goes to ivy tech in indiana, and she is majoring in graphic design, and up until now she had no computer.
Recently, we got her a powermac g4, dual 800mhz powerpc g4, 1.5gig ram.
She is used to using photoshop CS on a g5 (imac i think),
And when she used photoshop CS on the g4 powermac,
She said it was just 'okay' and there was a huge lag when using the 'smudge' tool and others in photoshop.
I was thinking she was just being picky, but after using it myself (im no photoshop expert) it did have a little bit of a drag, eventually resulting in the beach-ball loading icon, and eventually, it works.
Now when you have to smudge things pixel by pixel one at a time, im sure it would take a LONG time to do little tasks.
But then i got an idea why it may not be adequate,
Could it be the monitor size and resolution?
We didnt buy her a brand new monitor,
and shes using it with a 17 inch CRT,
Could that be my problem????????
Now that i think about it, the monitors are big in her design lab.
Would buying a new monitor be the answer?
How else could i make this machine better for graphic design in photoshop?
Thanks,
Tanner.
My sister goes to ivy tech in indiana, and she is majoring in graphic design, and up until now she had no computer.
Recently, we got her a powermac g4, dual 800mhz powerpc g4, 1.5gig ram.
She is used to using photoshop CS on a g5 (imac i think),
And when she used photoshop CS on the g4 powermac,
She said it was just 'okay' and there was a huge lag when using the 'smudge' tool and others in photoshop.
I was thinking she was just being picky, but after using it myself (im no photoshop expert) it did have a little bit of a drag, eventually resulting in the beach-ball loading icon, and eventually, it works.
Now when you have to smudge things pixel by pixel one at a time, im sure it would take a LONG time to do little tasks.
But then i got an idea why it may not be adequate,
Could it be the monitor size and resolution?
We didnt buy her a brand new monitor,
and shes using it with a 17 inch CRT,
Could that be my problem????????
Now that i think about it, the monitors are big in her design lab.
Would buying a new monitor be the answer?
How else could i make this machine better for graphic design in photoshop?
Thanks,
Tanner.