[thelist] Image ready 3 on mac waaaaay slow?

Jason Morehead jmorehead at alphalincoln.com
Wed Jan 17 11:39:31 CST 2001


>Hi All,
>
>We recently upgraded Photoshop and got the upgrade to image ready
>too...
>
>now - I had a problem with Image Ready 2's speed (on Mac G3 128 meg
>ram OS 8.5), but Image ready 3 is approaching unusable on my Mac G4
>192 meg ram OS 9.

i use imageready 3.0 on a blue and white G3 with 128 megs of ram and 
yeah, it can be pretty slow... but nowhere near as slow as what 
you're experiencing.  to be honest, i've noticed a pretty good speed 
increase over imageready 2.0.

although you can run photoshop and imageready at the same time (so 
you can swap between apps), i never do.  i do the the bulk of my 
design work in photoshop (which just keeps getting better and better, 
imho).  then, when the majority of that is done, i bring it into 
imageready and do all of the slicing, optimizing, mouseovers, 
animations, etc.

do you run other apps along with imageready?  imageready is such a 
memory hog that it might be butting heads with any other apps you're 
running at the time.

also, i've noticed that the morelayers and slices and effects you 
have on them (mouseovers, etc.), the slower the app runs.  i don't 
know what kind of designs you're doing, but you might look at that. 
of course, i've found that simpler is usually better.

of course, you could always get more RAM. ;)

hth... sorry i don't have any earth-shattering truths...

jason
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