Video Card & Screen Using Photoshop

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Hi,
Please can you give me your advice for which video card & Screen I should buy, I do not want the card for gaming. I would like to use it mainly for Photoshop to do my Photography and soon to watch Blue Ray dics.

I have XP running with Quad Processor ( 2 Gigs Memory ) and enough disk space ( SATA drives )
I am not sure if you need anymore info to help make your recommendations. I was hoping to try and get quality as with the Mac. No, can not buy the Mac.
I have heard that size of the pixel on the screen makes a difference.

I was wondering about the :

Samsung Sync Master T26

Thanks for your time
Vaughan
 
VaughanLundin said:
Hi,
Please can you give me your advice for which video card & Screen I should buy, I do not want the card for gaming. I would like to use it mainly for Photoshop to do my Photography and soon to watch Blue Ray dics.

I have XP running with Quad Processor ( 2 Gigs Memory ) and enough disk space ( SATA drives )
I am not sure if you need anymore info to help make your recommendations. I was hoping to try and get quality as with the Mac. No, can not buy the Mac.
I have heard that size of the pixel on the screen makes a difference.

I was wondering about the :

Samsung Sync Master T26

Thanks for your time
Vaughan
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Hi Vaughan,

The T26 looks like a great monitor, you can't go wrong with that. As for a GFX card you best bet would be to look at the new range of Ati cards, the 4850 is a great card bang for buck. You can't go wrong with that setup.
 
a Quadro? that's serious overkill Peter.

dude....my 3Ds Max Renders a 15,000 polygon bugatti veyron 3D Model at 300fps in a Fullscreen 1920x1080 viewport - That's WITHOUT a Quadro.

photoshop don't need them, only 3Dsmax, maya and lightwave.
 
ldmelsa said:
he said Adobe Photoshop & Blu-ray

not Adobe After Effects and 4K videos :D
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LOL! You guys missed the 'ideal' bit.

However the Quadro offers benefits above the gaming Nvidia card.
Some features of PS CS4 only work with latest gen Quadros.
(It may be possible to flash a non-Quadro card to a Quadro).

BTW I wouldn't use AE for 4K work.

On my Mac Pro the PS CS4 works well with my old ATI Radeon 1900XT 512MB.
 
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Ivan... said:
go and read Newegg and Amazon.com reviews, the T260 isn't meant for professionals...something to do with the type of LCD.
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It's an 8bit panel which is better than '6bit and dithering' some TNs have
but for ideal PS you need 10bit and up with full color spectrum. NEC, Illiyama, LaCie etc are
those brands and those monitors cost about 5-10x as much per inch
as standard monitors.
 
Keeper said:
Bwahahahahahaaaaaaa!

Reputation lost.

dude do you even know what a Quadro is?:confused:
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LOL, yeah. It has additional shaders/elements. However, much of the software does not really need the hardware as much as it needs to know a pro card is used,
flashing may enable some additional PS Std/or Extended features which a non-pro card can also possibly handle.

I don't have a reputation vested in this, don't worry ;).

Here's a discussion about the flashing, it is possible:
http://www.mvktech.net/index.php?option=com_joomlaboard&func=view&catid=13&id=49537
As to if it's beneficial or not, I cannot say. The two cards GPUs are different but have similarities,
so the idea may be that additional benefits could be gotten from fooling Adobe PS into thinking
the card is a Quadro vs a standard gaming card.
 
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has anyone used Autodesk Flame though? I wanna give it a whirl..
 
ldmelsa said:
AE gets used for Red's 4K raw files
they've been working with Adobe to improve the workflow
quite impressive :)
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Maybe, but real men use Shake or Avid :-).
I think Adobe's post solutions are the worst.
And the sad thing is that AE is used by everyone and their dog. Premiere is a terrible NLE though
and using FCP with AE is possible but is quite difficult.
 
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Keeper said:
Avid is now owned by Autodesk ain't it?
ie: Flame and Phoenix?
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It doesn't matter who owns who but rather what you call the range of products and where they came from.

Products like Flame and AE are mostly video products, while compositing software like Shake (with EDL file creation) have been used on IMAX, 4K, 2K
and HD productions and film. You can use Shake on video too.

For me, the combination of Final Cut Studio 2 with
FCP as the NLE (and capable of matte, keying, retiming and many after effects itself)
Color for professional colour grading (in film or video)
Motion 3 for graphics and many after effects
Shake for compositing, stabilisation, 2D, 3D

Motion uses GP plug which allows 3D accelerator utilisation, many
effect filters from Boris, Tiffen and FxFactory also utilise this hardware
in Motion and FCP.

This is more than enough. :) This combination IMO beats AE and Premiere.
There is no reason to purchase a separate $900 AE licence.

I've never used Flame, Combustion, Fusion or Cineon but
Shake itself which is node based is one of the most powerful
packages available after all Hollywood uses it. I have played with
Shake and covered a good few tutorials. The node based approach it
uses is identical to the one in Color.

Adobe video Products are nice but they take a lower notch of the market.
Flame is also not suited for film apparently.

Avid Products <> AutoDesk products.
There is Avid DS for example:
http://www.avid.com/products/DS/specs.asp
 
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