13.1233 feet Images at 300 DPI

[bjoeri]

Hey there, my first post here.

Background:
I'm working with huge images, from 8x3 feet and up.
The reason I need 300dpi's at these sizes is that they need be good quality both at near and far distance.

Sometimes the images cover the walls from floor to celing in small spaces such as bathrooms etc.

Normally when working whith such big images they are intended for signs, which most of the time is seen from some distance.

And now to my Question:
I'm working with Macs, both a G5 and Intel core 2. The time it takes to edit these images are nervewrecking when I have deadlines. Just saving takes 10 - 20 minutes or more, depending on how much info the images contains.

So what can be done to shorten the time handling these big files, and how much impact can it have?
More RAM?
Better Graphic card?
CPU?

The thing I really first want to know is, why and what in the editing process does take so long time?

Hope anyone has some info on this matter!

Cheers

 

[KRF]

Hi

Do you know that size of the files when they have been saved? if the files are quite big, as in 5-10MB then this could be causing it to take so long.

Also the fragmentation of your hard drive may also be causing this long time this may help you understand more about it:
Fighting Hard Drive Fragmentation : FoleyPod eZine

Also if you are using DPI this also takes up a lot of RAM and CPU no matter what OS you are using be it Mac or windows.

A graphics card is used to show an image or graphics on a screen and this will only beused in showing graphics, so as for saving, this should not matter what graphics card you have.

one thing that may be a good thing to think about it vector graphics, I don't use this kind tho so I don't know much about it, but here is a link to try and explain:
Vector graphics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

as for buying a faster CPU on a Mac, this could cost quite a bit but I am unsure, as I don't use a Mac but I know you have to get it done be a Mac aproved repair man so this couold bump up the cos to you.

hope this help's

 

[bjoeri]

Hi

Do you know that size of the files when they have been saved? if the files are quite big, as in 5-10MB then this could be causing it to take so long.

Also the fragmentation of your hard drive may also be causing this long time this may help you understand more about it:
Fighting Hard Drive Fragmentation : FoleyPod eZine

Also if you are using DPI this also takes up a lot of RAM and CPU no matter what OS you are using be it Mac or windows.

A graphics card is used to show an image or graphics on a screen and this will only beused in showing graphics, so as for saving, this should not matter what graphics card you have.

one thing that may be a good thing to think about it vector graphics, I don't use this kind tho so I don't know much about it, but here is a link to try and explain:
Vector graphics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

as for buying a faster CPU on a Mac, this could cost quite a bit but I am unsure, as I don't use a Mac but I know you have to get it done be a Mac aproved repair man so this couold bump up the cos to you.

hope this help's

Thanks KRF

I would be lucky if file size was 5-10 MB

By that resolution and DPI the file size reaches 2 and more GB (Giga bytes)
Fragmentation is not an issue at this time as the Hard drive is pretty new and not so full, and I regularly defrag.

I hoping to get some hints on what would be the wisest to upgrade, what would do most difference when it comes not only saving files, but also editing the files.

For instance resizing an object takes ages to complete. If I paste an image in to the big PSB(Photoshop large document format) document it also takes ages, and here I suspect graphics card, becuase the time it takes to update what I see on the screen.

Also, a graphic card that is both fast and has a lot of Memory should have more of the image cached on card memory itself, thus making updating of the screen faster, or have I got that wrong?

 

[KRF]

Thanks KRF

I would be lucky if file size was 5-10 MB

By that resolution and DPI the file size reaches 2 and more GB (Giga bytes)
Fragmentation is not an issue at this time as the Hard drive is pretty new and not so full, and I regularly defrag.

I hoping to get some hints on what would be the wisest to upgrade, what would do most difference when it comes not only saving files, but also editing the files.

For instance resizing an object takes ages to complete. If I paste an image in to the big PSB(Photoshop large document format) document it also takes ages, and here I suspect graphics card, becuase the time it takes to update what I see on the screen.

Also, a graphic card that is both fast and has a lot of Memory should have more of the image cached on card memory itself, thus making updating of the screen faster, or have I got that wrong?

Ok well let's try looking at it like this, if a 10MP camera set at high put's out a pic of 4MB, this would be easy for you CPU Graphics card and RAM to deal with, but as you have said the file you are editing is about 2GB (is this just one image?) if this is just one image there is a lot of information going through the RAM CPU and graphics card so I'm going to say all of them need to be upgraded, but this is just my thought's and I would ask aother people what they think.

Also as I said about the 4MB image vs your 2GB image, this is 512 times bigger than the 4MB image that you are trying to work with.

Just to try and explain this more for you:
Bits, Bytes, Mega, Giga, Tera (explained)

So having 2BG of information going throgh your CUP, graphics card and RAM, plus having the computer doing it's other thing's it has to, you can see this is a lot to put your computer through, maybe buying a better computer, my help but again I don't want to just be the one saying do this as other's may have a different side and maybe able to offer you other help, but do look in to vector graphics, this may help as I don't think it takes jup as much system power.

 

[jany]

Great post nice information thanks