CONFIGURING YOUR MACHINE FOR OPTIMAL USE OF MEMORY
Photo CD Access Software works with very large images. To optimize your system to work with large images, use disk caching. To enable disk caching with Photo CD Access Software:
1. Double-click the Photo CD Access Software icon to open the window.
2. Use the File menu and choose Preferences.
3. Increase the number in the Maximum size box in the Image Cache section of the Preferences dialog box. See Operating Recommendations, below, for image size requirements.
4. Click OK to close the Preferences dialog box.
5. Use the File menu and choose Exit. You must exit Photo CD Access Software in order for the changes made to disk caching to take effect. When you start Photo CD Access Software, the new settings take effect and become the default.
OPERATING RECOMMENDATIONS
The best way to use Photo CD Access Software, particularly if your system memory is at the lower end of the recommended range is to work with smaller image sizes (wallet and snapshot) on your display. You can still export images at any size, since exporting does not make heavy demands on memory, only on available disk storage space.
Photo CD discs store images at different resolutions. In order to display images, your system must have available a combination of RAMand disk caching larger than the size of the images. The following list shows the five supported resolutions and the approximate amount of memory required to display each size.
Resolution Approximate Size
Wallet 2.5 MB
Snapshot 3.0 MB
Standard 7.5 MB
Large 15 MB
Poster 30 MB
A contact sheet can take up to 4+ MB of memory to display if the Photo CD disc contains the maximum number of images. To save space, you may load an image without first loading the contact sheet.
