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Memory Issues with Elements 10

Sep 14, 2012 3:38 PM

Hello

 

I have Photoshop Elements v10, running under Windows 7, 64 bit. My laptop has 8GB RAM.

 

When I try to stitch a panoroma togther consisting of 6 images, I get 'not enough RAM'. The images are approx 1.4MB each (not high quality).

 

I have increaed the Photoshop memory under Preferences / Performance to 3250MB, and set my scratch disk to a different one to where Photoshop is installed. But none of this makes a difference.

 

Any suggestions  ?

 

Thanks

 

Andrew

 
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    Sep 14, 2012 3:53 PM   in reply to PeugotBikeFan

    Andrew,

     

    Welcome to the forum. Unfortunately, you have posted to the Photoshop Forum. I will move this post to the Photoshop Elements Forum, where you will get some worthwhile replies for that program.

     

    Good luck,

     

    Hunt

     
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    Sep 14, 2012 3:55 PM   in reply to PeugotBikeFan

    Wrong forum. See the Elements and ask Barbara.

     
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    Sep 14, 2012 7:18 PM   in reply to PeugotBikeFan

    What would be the final dimensions (in pixels) of the panorama?  As far as we know, PSE has a image size limitation of 30K pixels in each dimension.

     

    If reducing the sizes of your original images is not an option, you can use the excellent, free Microsoft ICE panorama program:

    http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/groups/ivm/ice/

     

    Ken

     
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    Sep 14, 2012 11:58 PM   in reply to PeugotBikeFan

    Obviously, we users don't know how the PSE code is doing the stitching, but 6 x 5K = 30K, so that's probably cutting it too close.  That's kind of confirmed by the 3-image stiches working OK, but not the final stitch.

     

    I'd hate to see you get into reducing quality by reducing the pixel dimensions and/or using "low quality" JPGs.  Try that ICE program -- I think you'll be impressed....

     

    Ken

     
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    Sep 15, 2012 1:04 AM   in reply to PeugotBikeFan

    Hi Andrew,

     

    PeugotBikeFan wrote:

     

    It seems that Elements being a 32bit app has a 3GB limit on memory usage, and this seems to stop it from being able to complete the stitching.

    Although 32-bit apps do have the approximately 3Gb memory limit, I suspect that the "not enough RAM" message you're getting from PSE is a false one, and the real reason the panorama is failing is that the image dimension (at some point in the stitching) is exceeding 30K pixels.

     

    Ken

     
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    Sep 15, 2012 1:26 AM   in reply to PeugotBikeFan

    Andrew,

     

    I couldn't agree more.

     

    Ken

     
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