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Originally Posted by h0ughy
thanks guys - should see the original file size - PSD file is 1.5gig, created jpeg is 56meg and then from that the small file i created for the forum was 117kb.
the cloud ruined the early shots - I never got the sequence until it started to enter the umbra, I wanted to catch the penumbra. Lucky I got what I did I suppose
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I know where you're coming from David - my collage ended up killing my home computers' virtual memory handler. I cut it down to 16 decent-sized images in the end as it was too bulky to work with. The working image was approaching a couple of GB - and that was in GIMP!
I plan to take all of my shots to work and fire up one of our quad-processor G5 Macintoshs with 16Gb of memory. This beasty should do the trick and allow me at least to manipulate the whole thing in real memory rather than paging in and out of disk all the time. Hopefully I'll be able to create a collage with all 200+ images I took a couple of minutes apart. You need a proper imaging machine (like these Macs - or PC's with equivalent power) to do it succesfully.
Good work by the way.
Cheers
Chris