“I’ve also been using the filter gallery a lot. Now many of the filters can be used in groups, I can take the filter gallery and stack up multiple filters and see the preview before I apply them.
“There are a lot of small changes that make the program easier to use for photo booth rentals in West Palm. Like menus arranged in alphabetical order, which is helpful to me because I can’t always remember where I found something before, and to have them in alphabetical order is nice. Some of these small changes can make my work flow more smoothly.
“I feel that the upgrade from 7.0 to Photoshop CS contains more significant improvements than the previous upgrade from 6 to 7.”
Maggie’s biggest problem working the way she does is not having enough computer memory. She likes best photo booth companies to work quickly and spontaneously, and not have to wait for the program to write each step. “It’s not actually a problem with Photoshop, it’s a problem with me needing to buy a faster computer. Right now my images tend to be around 50 megabytes when they’re flattened, but when I have all the layers in them they might be 500 megabytes. I’m constantly trying to pare things down so I don’t have to wait a long time for things to be done in Photoshop.”
She uses a G4 Mac with dual 800 processors and 1.5 gigabytes of RAM, and OSX. That seems like a lot, but when you consider that Photoshop® likes to have three to five times the image size in RAM, with 500 megabyte images it isn’t nearly enough. After she does a few more commercial jobs she intends to buy a G5, having spent her budget in 2003 on the Epson 9600® printer.