Small question...

[KiZ]

Rockuman: Did your name just change? Or have I gone mad?

[Josiah Tobin]

Rocku: 8x11" at 600 dpi makes a 4800 * 6600 pixels image. Such a huge image in photoshop takes 126.720.000 bytes (almost 128 Mb) per layer. The minium amount of layers is two: one for the lineart and another one for the colour art. Normally you need more. That means that your document can take up to 512 Mb in RAM. Normally people who work with those documents have a dedicated hard disk only for swapping, i.e. a "scratch disk" measuring 30 to 40 Mb.

I have 512 Mb of fast memory and I usually work a 300 dpi. My comics are drawn in A4 or A5 (metrical system, measures are roughly 8x11 and 5.5x8, respectively.) and I can work fairly well. But 8x11, 600 dpi is huge. That's why I mentioned Macs, as PowerPC processors seem more suited to this kind of stuff.

About prices, I got my Genius scanner for $80 and my NGS 6x8" tablet for $95. Wacom may be good, but it's to expensive. Mine gives me 1024 pressure levels, twice as the Graphire does, it is twice as big and costs the half.

Check http://www.ngslurbe.com/html/publicauk/d...=30&ids=12

(it's my tablet)

Half? Actually that's about the same price. :wink: Still, awesome deal.
And uh... Yeah, I think rocku's name did just change. What the...? :???:

[Rokkuman]

Yep. Wildcard kindly changed it to Rokkuman for me because I only just realised that people were reading it as "Rock-U-Man", as in "Rock You Man", which is absoLUTELY not what I want. Rokkuman should get the pronunciation across a little better.

[DrV]

Argh... you shouldn't have said that. Now I'll think of 'rock-u-man' whenever I see it. Nobody seems to pronounce my nick correctly either.

[ThaMariuZ]

doctor wee?