URGENT: Photoshop Memory Issues

Hey All!

I'm running into some major problems with Photoshop. This has just recently started to happen to me.

I'm running Photoshop 7.0 on Windows.

I've been trying to create some text with 2 colors (ie: HelloWorld - Hello is red, World is blue).

Everytime I go about doing this, Photoshop spits out the following error message to me:

"Could not complete your request because there is not enough memory (RAM)"

I'm running on 512 RAM with 3GB of HD left on my C: drive, and 5GB left on my D: drive. I don't know what could be causing this error.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

try making 2 different text boxes. it all depends on the image size, amount of text, and type of text. if you have like 400 lines of micro text then yes it will generate errors. but if its like HelloWorld then just make 2 different text boxes and line them up next to eachother how you want them.

Hey Frankie,

Did you get this problem resolved? It could be that you need to delete some of history layers/undos - mega memory drain. Are you saving the document prior to doing the text stuff? I'm on a Mac, with less RAM than you're using and I've not had this problem. However, I can't run anything else concurrent with Photoshop. Try making more memory available to the app. I allocated a whopping 61896k as my preferred size.

- Robsta

I'm running PS7 on 384k of RAM allocating 50% of mem for PS. If you're having problems making just text boxes something must be wrong with your installation perhaps. Can do anything else that's memory intensive?

Try http://www.adobe.com/support/products/photoshop.html

Hey Robsta,

Sorry for the late reply... Hadn't noticed this thread was replied too... Unfortunately, I wasn't able to get it working.. I tried it on another system in the house, and I received the same error... The other system also has 512 RAM... Not sure if it's something wrong with Photoshop, or if it's a valid error.

CountFly: I'm running w/ 512 RAM and allocating 75% to Photoshop... I should send you the file... this way you can tell me if it'll run on your system... It's the make-up site I was telling you about.

Hey Frankie,

You could try doing a clean reinstall of the software from a replacement CD and see if that helps. Are you doing memory instensive work prior to this action? Sounds like something's eating up your available RAM. Is it with a particular type of font (i.e. TT or Postscript)? Is it a type manager issue? Maybe the problem's at the font end of things.

Robsta

Robsta,

I could try reinstalling... I wasn't really doing much. I was trying to use two colors in a word... ie: "FrankieShakes" - Frankie would be blue, and shakes would be red... If I tried that, it would work... I would receive that error msg.

As for font... I was using the Century Gothic font... I believe it's a TTF.

What do you mean by "type manager" issue?

Hi Frankie,

I'm not that familiar with the Windows environment - here's a link to Adobe's UK site with some info on Adobe Type Manager. Is this something you're running?

http://www.adobe.co.uk/products/atmlight/main.html

Maybe this is where the problem lies.

Robsta

Frankie,

Email me the file and I'll take a look. Let me know if you're still looking for ideas on that site.

Hey Robsta,

Weird... I'm not running it at all... I really have no idea what was causing the problem. I've pretty much given up on it... I've also decided to drop the design as well. Got bored of it... And the client (my girlfriend) didn't like it anyways... hehe... can never make them happy!

Count,

I'll send it now...

Hi Frankie,

You may need to install Adobe Type Manager Light to handle manipulation of postscript fonts. I think this is where the problem's arising - 'specially if you've not had any problems with Photoshop7 handling other complex actions, or handling straight type. I'd try installing it just to see if the problem clears.

What do you think Count?

« PostScript font support is built directly into Windows 2000, and ATM Light is not required for basic font installation and rendering on this platform. However, you must install ATM Light on Windows 2000 if you use Adobe's multiple master typefaces and want to create custom font instances. ATM Light is required for previous versions of Windows, including Windows 95, 98, and NT4.0 ».

Robsta

I'm not too familar with Type Manager. I've never used it before to handle fonts. I would just pop a font into the FONTS folder and go from there. I didn't use alot of fonts (I think it sucks up resources in Windows) at any one time. I pretty much stuck to a few favourites.

Century Gothic is one of windows common installed font.s That alone shouldn't be the problem, I would think. FrankieS, is this problem isolated to just this one font or common to all fonts?

And for it to be a memory issues seems weird as well. How big is this font in your graphic? Maybe you have your zoom at 2 percent, the font this looks normal but it's really 50,000 pixels large

Sorry to hear your gf rejected your newly designed site. If you're still looking for some ideas, let me know.

Hi, moi again,

I'm on a Mac and haven't used a PC much lately other than surfing and simple stuff - so I've not used Photoshop in Windows .

Generally Adobe Type Manager is necessary on a Mac running Classic OS. If you're playing around with the font, it might be necessary on a PC if you're running Windows 2000. Does the problem occur with un-modified straight type? If not, you can try doing it the old way (à la Photoshop 4) and convert the type to a graphic as a separate layer and do a »select« with your magic wand and then a »gradient fill« from one of your preloaded gradients, or with a new custom gradient.

Robsta