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
Hi Hunt
Thanks for the welcome, and thanks for moving it to the right place.
Regards
Andrew
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 16:54:05 -0600
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Subject: Re: Memory Issues with Elements 10 Memory Issues with Elements 10
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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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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
Hi Ken
Thanks for the reply. How can I tell what the final dimensions would be in pixels ? Each of the individual images is approx 5000 x 3500 pixels, so allowing for approx 20% overlap, I would not think I would break 30K on the long side.
When I first started getting the memory issue with this panoroma, I reduced the size of each jpeg from around 9MB (Canon EOS 600) to low quality, so each jpeg is now approx 1.3MB. This did not make any difference.
Also, I tried doing 2 panoramas of 3 images each, and then attempting to stitch the 2 'half' panoromas together. I created the 2 half panoramas OK, but they wouldn't stitch together ('not enough RAM').
Andrew
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
Ken
I will try the ICE program. I have spent a lot of time messing with this. Including spending £130 on upgrading the memory on my laptop from 3GB to 8GB, thinking that would solve the problem.
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.
Andrew
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
Ken
Thanks for the quick responses. I did actually manage to create the panorama using the software that came with my Canon ('photstitch'). It took a couple of minutes, and worked fine.
It does seem strange that a premier image editing package can't seem to do something that a freebie does without any issues. Hmm.
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