November 11, 2009

SF PUG Thursday: Optimizing Photoshop performance

Tomorrow evening (Thursday), all-around smart/interesting guy Adam Jerugim from the Photoshop team will be speaking at the San Francisco Photoshop User Group meeting:

The talk will focus on Photoshop performance best practices to help enable users to get the most out of Photoshop with their current hardware setup. In addition, there will be guidance provided for users that plan on buying new hardware or upgrading their existing Photoshop & Lightroom systems. Information will also be provided about tools you can use to optimize your specific workflow, GPUs, and running 64-bit applications.

Our speaker, Adam Jerugim, has been part of the Photoshop engineering team for the last 10 years and is mainly responsible for performance and hardware compatibility testing. In addition to being an avid photographer, he is also working to complete his MFA in Digital Arts and New Media at UC Santa Cruz.

See the event page for more info. For a slide deck from Adam & co. on the subject of optimizing Photoshop performance, see previous.

(rt) Photography: Crushing overloads, HDR moon, & more

• This insanely overloaded truck seems like a metaphor on wheels, crying out for inclusion in a Demotivator. [Via]
• Here’s a pair of striking photos from India, courtesy of Emanuele Nardoni.
• Twins Triptych: Arbus, Kubrick, and (scariest) the Olsens.
• Superfly dragonflies & avian stylings come from Conrad Tan.
• Heavenly:
  • Need to know where/when the sun/moon will rise/set for photos? Use The Photographer’s Ephemeris. [Via]
  • Check out an HDR pic of the Halloween full moon. [Via Ben Hansen]