Automatic Start, Action and Save

Hello.

Photoshop(Win) goes Slavery:

We want to

- start PS automatically very fast: What can we do to accelerate the starting of PS (e.g. more RAM)?

- put previously edited text via action into a layer: Does anyone know helping script samples?

- and save result vor preview.

Any hint welcome, also freelancers for doing parts of this job (feel free to contact us). Thanks in advance,

Erik Petersen
[email]petersen@trilos.de[/email]

PS: I´m really shocked by the lousy text search on temphotoshop...

I'm not sure of the other things to do, but you could definitely start PS faster by having a 15,000rpm scsi hard-drive on an ultra 160 controller.

There is also the option of installing Photoshop directly into a ram drive. Where it doesn't even reside on a hard-drive, just in ram. Of course, you'd have to reinstall it each time you reset your computer, or use a ram-drive application that saves/loads what you had in ram each time its reset. VERY fast. The fastest thing you could do to speed up PS loading, but at the same time, very risky if you crash/reset. In any case, more ram is always better for speeding up PS.

Yes, I have the set-up as described above and PS almost opens before I click on it. Hehe. I've found that the thing that sped up PS the most was the 6.01 patch. 128 megs of ram didn't really speed up loading. Only filters and whatnot.

first
Yup, a blazing fast seek speed on a harddrive and a large bus speed will surley increase speed, but if you aren't looking to build another computer. ;)

RAM: As cheap as it is now there is not ANY reason not to have EVERY memory bay in the computer full...
If it will only hold 3- 128/256 chips put that much in it, if it will hold a gig+, feed that monster.
Photoshop and RAM go hand in hand... they love each other.

Allocating 300 to 500 Meg of ram to Photoshop alone does indeed make a difference in the way the application loads and performs in my experience.

Now... there was something I read a long time ago, and it may have just been on version 3 or 4 or something. I do however remember that on the macintosh there was a file somewhere in the "photoshop" folder higherarchy that had a tilde (~) in front of the name. The tilde made this item not load at PS startup. Removing the tilde was suppose to make photoshop do something differently with its cache thus speeding up its load time. You said Windows though ... so what the heck am I ramblin' on about?
Anyone know if that file was on the Win version of Photoshop?


second
When you say "previously edited text" are you meaning you want to "import formatted text" and render it to layer?
Do you mean like a "word", "wordperfect", ".rtf".

eeek! Photoshop ain't a text editor.


Third
If you can setup an action you can add the save function to it...so I'm not sure I undestand this one.

Yeah. Photoshop does not like text too well. Putting in pre-edited text will most likely destroy any formatting you try to put into it before importing.