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February 14, 2019
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Hardware Question re: Panorama/ PhotoMerge function

  • February 14, 2019
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I do interior photography for work that my cabinet shop produces.

I shoot much of this work with a tilt-shift lens  where I take two compositions then blend them together in photoshop on an iMac computer back at my office.

I would like to be able to perform this photo-merge while I am at the photoshoot  while my camera is still set up for the shot.

I would like, if possible, to stay with apple products for the laptop.

Can anyone recommend what I need to for horsepower to drive photoshop elegantly.

My primary use for this laptop would be for this one photo-merge function.

I am not editing video on the machine but I also don't want to stare at the spinning beach ball of death while I am opening and driving photoshop.

Storage capacity is also not an issue.

What would be the minimum hardware requirements for reasonable speed an performance?

Would something with an SSD drive noticeably outperform a standard hard drive for this need?

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    Conrad_C
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    Conrad_CCommunity Expert
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    February 15, 2019

    jarvis393  wrote

    Would something with an SSD drive noticeably outperform a standard hard drive for this need?

    For merging specifically, probably not. I think merging performance in Photoshop depends more on CPU and RAM than storage speed.

    More and more, you'll want to use an SSD as your system drive anyway, because an SSD speeds up so many operations in general. Since you mentioned Apple products, any new MacBook Pro has extremely fast flash storage so you won't have to worry about it.

    JJMack
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    JJMackCommunity Expert
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    February 15, 2019

    If you give Photoshop work to do  and you do not have a huge amount of  RAM and even if you have  a lot of RAM Photoshop will mange some thing using scratch space.  Photoshop also uses Temp space for work file when you open smart object. SSD will out perform hard disks day and night.

    JJMack
    D Fosse
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    D FosseCommunity Expert
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    February 14, 2019

    Any decent laptop should be able to do that, as long as it has reasonable I/O bandwidth (enough RAM and disk space for Photoshop's scratch disk). This doesn't sound like it should tax a machine out of the ordinary. If you get spinning beachballs over this, there are other problems (like a buggy video driver, buggy third-party plugins, etc).

    JJMack
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    JJMackCommunity Expert
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    February 14, 2019

    Most business class laptops that run Photoshop should have no problem stitching a few image.  If you shoot RAW use the Photomerge feature  in ACR. For interior shots you should is a tripod with a panohead the rotate you camera around your lens nodal point.  To avoid  parallax errors. SSD is allways better than hard disk

    JJMack
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