Confused by system requirements: Here's the question for owners of Photoshop Elements 5 or 6, does it really require you to have a low resolution monitor?
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Your monitor needs to run at exactly 96 dpi -- if you run it at a higher dpi, a bug in PSE 6 prevents the menus from displaying properly! See this Adobe knowledgebase article: http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=kb402728&sliceId=1 This leaves two unsatisfactory choices: a) Reduce your dpi to 96 and live with the hard-to-read small menu fonts. b) Reduce the screen resolution to less than 1680x1050 and live with the fuzziness and reduced sharpness of text and photos. Adobe screwed this up, given how many people have high-resolution displays, especially the new laptops.
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I'm running PSP Photo X2 under Vista on an HP Slimline with 2 gigs of RAM and I have had no problems. However, I've read about some bad experiences that other people have had running PSP under Vista. I don't know for sure what the problems are, but I'd highly recommend a clean install of the Paint Shop software if at all possible. I'm in the same boat you are with regard to level of expertise (or lack thereof). I do have a lot of photos on my computer and I ran several of my problem photos through PSP Photo X2 and applied the "quick fix" button. The photos were all improved considerably with zero effort and knowledge. I'm pretty sure that with a little practice with the more complicated features I could do more. I have also used PCP Photo X2 do so some web graphics, and the support for layers, JPGs, GIFs, PNGs, and the RGB color model are more than sufficient for my needs (I used Photoshop in college and Print Shop works essentially the same way Photoshop did for the tasks I need it to do). I also tried Photoshop Elements, and the web-centric features of Print Shop Pro seemed far more robust to me than the ones in Elements. In my opinion, nothing even comes close to Print Shop Pro for the price. Finally, if you are interested in doing some detailed research before you buy the software, get Diane Koers's book "Picture Yourself Learning Corel Paint Shop Pro X2" and read it. It will tell you all the things you can do with the software and it's surprisingly inexpensive, especially for a Course Technology book. The best part is that after you read it and decide to buy the software (which I'm betting you will), the book will continue to be useful to you as a reference.
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I haven't used Manga Studio, but it has no problems with Photoshop. However, I don't use it in an intensive way, so my usage may not be typical. So far my only complaint is that Windows 8 is terrible and I strongly dislike the charms menu that keeps popping up when I don't want it to. The keyboard is also somewhat clunky but passable, I'm sure I'll get used to it in time. Other than that, awesome laptop.
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It can run Photoshop, yes. However, performance will not be great- especially when applying CPU intensive features like rendering or filters.
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Yes. I have it in my PC and I use Photoshop, various 3D modelling programs, and games extensively. My setup is benchmarked at >1800, iirc, and handles most games at >100 FPS. Doesn't flinch at my other utilities either. I do have a lot of other powerful stuff in here though.
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Need to scan into Adobe Photoshop CS5 / Windows 7 / 64 Bit -- wondering if you are using it for that and if it worked.
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Hi, Mark. Your reply is very helpful to me. I'll looking at getting a small notebook in the future and was hoping to be able to handle some graphics and web editing without too much of a slow down. I'm glad to know you're happy running Illustrator on the NC10. How is the graphics card with an external monitor? Is the 2nd monitor limited to 1024x600, or can it handle higher res on the external?Thanks!
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I'm on Windows 7 / 64 Bit, but don't scan into Photoshop. It works great scanning into Paint.NET.
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Recommend that you look at the Adobe site for a White Paper called Optimizing Hardware Systems for Adobe Premiere Pro...and Photoshop CC found at: http://www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/solutions/broadcasting/pdfs/Adobe-Hardware-Performance-Whitepaper.pdf This is a great article because it really explains what the computer components do and how they are interrelated. While Elements isn't specifically addressed, it does include specs for full blown Photoshop. If Photoshop will run well on this (and it meets the specs) than Elements should as too. In terms of storage capacity, this system has should be adequate. Recommend that you look at the Adobe site for a White Paper called Optimizing Hardware Systems for Adobe Premiere Pro...and Photoshop CC found at: http://www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/solutions/broadcasting/pdfs/Adobe-Hardware-Performance-Whitepaper.pdf This is a great article because it really explains what the computer components do and how they are interrelated. While Elements isn't specifically addressed, it does include specs for full blown Photoshop. If Photoshop will run well on this (and it meets the specs) than Elements should as too. In terms of storage capacity,... » Read More Recommend that you look at the Adobe site for a White Paper called Optimizing Hardware Systems for Adobe Premiere Pro...and Photoshop CC found at: http://www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/solutions/broadcasting/pdfs/Adobe-Hardware-Performance-Whitepaper.pdf This is a great article because it really explains what the computer components do and how they are interrelated. While Elements isn't specifically addressed, it does include specs for full blown Photoshop. If Photoshop will run well on this (and it meets the specs) than Elements should as too. In terms of storage capacity, this system has should be adequate. « Show Less
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I'm old school so I take it to a professional photo developer and let them do it all (negs, prints and high resolution cds). I don't think that answers your question but it's all I've got.
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Yes, I have taken an image from Photoshop 6 worked it to my perception and printed on my Epson R 3000. I use OSX Mavericks but know of no reason why changing operating systems would make a difference
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NO, do NOT get a MAC. Overpriced and WAY over-hyped. I can edit 60p with ZERO chop on one of my meager core-duo laptops at 1.8ghz, with effects and PIP's, etc. no problem. You probably are not optimally configured both in hardware and software. What kind of hard drive do you have? This is a very likely culprit. I typically only edit on RAID0 configs because of their awesome speed, and this is where the bottle-neck is really. Also, get some real editing software. I've been using Edius for 10+ years now, and it is simply THE BEST NLE software I have ever used bar none (Vegas, Avid, Premiere Pro through CS4, and yes (sigh) Final Crap Pro). It is incredibly fast, stable, and supports mixed formats and more on a single timeline. Best wishes in any case.
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I have it running on an HP desktop which has a 1920x1080 resolution with Windows 7 and a Sony Vaio laptop that also has Windows 7 and 1366x768 resolution. Generally VideoStudio has been a good product.
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Hello!The resolution for the camera is 1.3 megapixel. And yes, you can run photoshop on this laptop.Thanks.
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I use it with Windows, but I checked the operating manual. Under the section called Included Software, PDF Manuals it lists the system requirements for both PC and Mac. The Mac section lists the following requirements: Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 Computer: Computers running one of the above operating systems (preinstalled), with an included USB port and Internet connection Processor: Core Duo 1.83 GHz or higher (still images), Core 2 Duo 2.6 GHz or higher (movies) RAM: 1 GB or more (still images), 2GB or more (movies) Interfaces: USB Free Hard Disk Space: 550 MB or more Display: 1024 x 768 resolution or high It then says to check the Canon website for the latest system requirements, including supported OS versions. I hope this helps!
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For what it's worth, I use Photoshop Elements 2.0 with my AR3700. 2.0 is a very old version, but still works really well for all my photo editing tasks. So far as I can tell, my edits of 8MB images don't challenge the Atom D525 CPU at all, even with several images in memory.
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I can't speak to AutoCAD, but Adobe Suite works...okay. To explain, the Adobe products do -not- scale well if you're running at the native (3200x1800px) resolution of the panel. The UI will be rather small. I still use it as such, just wanted to let you know as it could be off-putting (unless you run it at a lower resolution, though I don't know if I'd recommend that depending on the type of work you're doing). That being said, if you're doing granular pixel work, be aware that the sub-pixel arrangement of the panel that Samsung has used is not a standard RGB stripe. It's fine for normal work, but if you're getting in close to the panel some odd edges can be noticed. Performance-wise, I find the laptop to be okay. Remember, this is an ultrabook-class with an ULV processor, it's not going to perform like a desktop or hefty laptop. I find the performance acceptable for most things until I do something that's using the 'content-aware' and processor-heavy applications that take long times for all systems...the CPU turbo works great for short boosts of performance, but if it's something that takes long periods of time normally it might be noticeable that this is a low-voltage chip. Now, when you consider the fact that I've done content-aware fills AT ALL on this Ultrabook (and we're talking for things that are &gt; 10000x5000px)...it's pretty astonishing!