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Talking to Photoshop via script can be a delicate process, so here’s a few tips for exporting your high-res layouts from PJ for printing…
• Open Photoshop before you start exporting. (Sometimes it takes so long to open PJ forgets who it’s talking to.)
• Close all other open images in Photoshop.
• Make sure the Photoshop start screen is closed.
• Let Photojunction and Photoshop do their thing. Keep your hands off that keyboard!
Cheers, PJ Support
We were talking today about system requirements for Photojunction. Someone had suggested that users need at least 3GB of RAM to run PJ Remix and Photoshop at the same time – which of course they do when they’re creating hi-res exports. On our website however we say 1GB is OK, and 2+GB is recommended.
As someone who’d only just created a set of layouts for a demo on my bog-standard MacBook Pro with 2GB of RAM, and thought, “Gee, that was quick”, I was surprised at the comment. Especially since all PJ is doing during export is feeding Photoshop a script.
So we talked, and thought, Yes, in the real world, the more RAM the better. I did add more to my old machine. But as I’d just confirmed PJ doesn’t need it. We also like to upgrade our computers every couple of years, because the world is moving on. But many of our staff work on hardware that’s older than that.
What else? We could all spend more on a longer list, but in today’s economy we do need to work out whether we really need to spend the money.
Cheers, Ian
NB. A small percentage of Windows users have memory related crashes and the more memory you have, the fewer of those crashes. Having said that our development environment has just been upgraded, and they have promised me personally that they’ve addressed this inherited bug! – Danny
Our advice about exporting your high-res layouts from PJ for printing has always been to step away from the computer. Photoshop is a little sensitive when running scripts and you’re likely to trip it up if you work at the same time. Go have a coffee and it’ll be finished when you get back.
Cheers, Ian
We told War Story 1 (about the guy whipping out a flash drive and challenging Danny to replicate his Photoshop layout) to a gentleman, who… whipped out his own flash drive and challenged Danny to do the same! He signed up too – thank you sir.
Think of PJ Remix this way – as a tool for laying out PSD files. Really fast.
Unlike most programs we saw at Focus, Remix doesn’t compromise your Photoshop experience, it supercharges it.
Cheers, Ian
At our FOCUS booth a guy walked up to Danny and asked him how long it would take to replicate a design he’d done in Photoshop. It took a slightly anxious Danny 3-4 minutes, and when he was done the guy whipped out his credit card and signed up.
Now, we know it’s a lot faster to copy an existing design than it is to dream it up in the first place, but the point of the story is to confirm that you’ll save heaps of time if you design your PHOTOSHOP page layouts in PHOTOJUNCTION.
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