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[johnstonmr]

Dammit.

I have a JPG of my grandfather and his school class circa 1927 (he was 6, I think). I told him I'd resize it for him, but my computer keeps telling me "not enough memory" when I try to load the Jpeg in my viewer/editor. The verdammt thing is only 1.5mb big, is that abnormal?

See, it's too damned big for a friend of his who is also in the picture to see it on his PC, so Grandpa asked me to resize it for him (his PC, though better than mine, hasn't got the programs necessary and I can't transport them to his PC (and he's on Dialup, so no DLing them).

GAH!

Anyone got an idea?

Comments

[lograh.livejournal.com]

you know people who have both the connection and technical abilities to do it for you.

I say you ask one of them. (I'm thinking in particular of myself and G3 as being prime candidates)

As for an actual explaination of your situation, it could simply be that there is too much other stuff running for your computer to handle the picture. Yes, it's only 1.5MB on disk, but that's a compressed size. The actual picture size can be far larger than that depending on compression ratio. Case in point: I once was working on a picture that was something like 1.3GB in size uncompressd, but due to the picture qualitities and compression ratio used, I was able to get it down to something in the area of 50MB on-disk.

With images, disk size can have very little relation to actual image size.

Also, I know that some programs will not run without using virtual memory, regardless of how much physical ram you may have. An example: Photoshop on this computer uses virtual ram all the time, even though my images are usually no more than about 60MB uncompressed (100MB at the most) and there's 512MB of physical ram installed. If your virtual memory is not set high enough, then the program you are trying to use could be crapping out because of that.

yerp

[gregory-geiger.livejournal.com]

I should be able to do it.. I can manipulate 3meg files before my box chokes.

let me know how I can help.

Re: yerp

[tobin.livejournal.com]

If you put Photoshop on my computer, you can use my PC to fix the pic. I mean, if it's a processor thang. I think you got me beat on RAM..ahem..and video.

Re: yerp

[gregory-geiger.livejournal.com]

1.3 gig ram and 1000mhz processor. yes, your processor is much faster than mine. it's true. People think your dick is big. ;-P

Re: yerp

[lograh.livejournal.com]

d00d, only 3MB before it chokes?

Re: yerp

[gregory-geiger.livejournal.com]

only have a 1000mhz processor, buck-o.

and when I say choke, i mean I can see it slow down.

Re: yerp

[lograh.livejournal.com]

yeah, but 3MB?? that's just a little more than 2 floppies' worth of info! If your computer starts having visible slow-down that early, you've got some issues that could use looking at.

Re: yerp

[gregory-geiger.livejournal.com]

come on down my tech god.

Re: yerp

[johnstonmr]

ONLY 1000mhz?

I have a 533. So fuck you very much. ;)