Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/08/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Are you planning to use the images for publication, or for display on the web? If you are planning to do major editing work for publication, then you'll need quite a bit of hard drive space. You'll need this not only for the size of the images you'll need to store, but for scratch disk space that Photoshop needs. If you are using the images for the web, your goal will be to compress them as much as possible. Accordingly, the saved images y ou have will end up being very small. Using Gif89a or jpeg as our image format will get most images down to under 50k. Gif Transparency and Jpeg Transmorgifier are two excellent applications (for the Mac) that can sqeeze images down even more without noticeable loss of quality. For web display, always make sure to scan your images at a high resolution (300 dots per inch or better) and then use Photoshop to scale the image down to 72 dpi. Photoshop does an infinitely better job at reducing an image while preserving quality than any scanner hardware can do. In terms of the speed of the machine, always buy the fastest you can afford. :) I do a lot of work on a 233mhz G3, and also on a 266mhz PowerBook G3. They work wonderfully. But new versions of software are always coming out, demanding more resources to run. So you're best bet is to buy all that you can afford now so that you can grow in the future. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com