Photoshop : scratch disk and process issues and saving to laptop issues

[Wray and Nephew]

HI everyone I have just loaded photoshop and after one day my scratch disk is full and I cannot make changes to my photos. Do i need to buy a portable hard disk or a computer just for photoshop

[Ged_Traynor]

Hi

How much free space do you have on the C drive for the scratch disk and how large are the images you're working on.

https://helpx.adobe.com/ie/photoshop/using/scratch-disks-preferences.html

[Wray and Nephew]

Hi Ged

thanks for replying

i have 108 free of 224 GB 

and my mages are from A4 to A2

[Ged_Traynor]

108 GB free should be fine, when you say A4 to A2, what are the exact pixel dimensions, I've seen people selecting inches instead of pixels by mistake when creating new documents, you can check you document dimensions from here

[Wray and Nephew]

hi 

sometimes i work on very old photos so doing low to high res of 2000 pixels/inch. 

[Test Screen Name]

We're looking for the actual dimensions of a typical image you are working on - not pixels/inch, not size in inches or mm. We need this info to advise you. Please post the actual size in pixels (or the screen shot we showed you).

[@mj]

Hi @Wray and Nephew 

A2 @ 2000dpi will give you a file of around 4,23Gb.

Are you working with a lot of layers?

Can you give us a sense of the file size based on the image that @Ged_Traynor has shared above?

mj

[@mj]

Is there a reason for you to work at 200dpi @Wray and Nephew ?

Best

mj