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Photo editing software for older machine

Jan 5, 2006 3:24AM PST

I have an old 548Mz Pentium 3 with 348 Ram and 80G hard drive. What software would work on my system? I think I like Adobe PSE 4 but my processor is a little slow for it, any suggestions? I can't upgrade to a new computer yet.

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That software should be fine.
Jan 5, 2006 4:16AM PST

Another title could be THE GIMP (google.com)

Bob

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Don't meet minimum or recommended
Jan 5, 2006 5:24AM PST

I didn't think that PSE4 would run well on my machine since I don't have the minimum of 800 Mhz or the recommended Ram of 512.

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It still works.
Jan 5, 2006 9:22AM PST

It will just run a little slower and may swap, but it will run.

Bob

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I've run Photoshop CS on a 200mhz 128meg Win98SE machine
Jan 9, 2006 8:21AM PST

without a problem. A bit slow to start, but it works.

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Don't worry?
Jan 9, 2006 12:15PM PST

You can run it. Things may take a little longer to do. Gausen-Blur, for example. Don't worry about it.
I think that Photoshop V4 takes up about 65 Megs for the program. You have plenty of room if you shut off other programs that are running along with Photoshop.
Just manage apps that are running.

Kidpeat told you that you could run V7CS on your computer.
My Mac G4 runs at 733Mhz w/1G ram. Not a problem at all.

Where did the 800 Mhz or the recommended Ram of 512 come from? Extra ram will help.
Inexpensive right now.
Try newegg.com. Good company to deal with. I have used them repeatedly. Very, very good service and tech help.
Nice to know that when you are ordering extra ram.

-Kevin