Memory Handling

ArtMaster and ArtMasterPro, as mentioned earlier, contain a technology that ‘understands’ where the objects are, from the smallest to the largest, and their relative size and location to each other – so they generate the Sources from the original photograph in a manner that is sympathetic, relevant, complimentary and tasteful.

To get superb results and understand where everything is, the software needs to process every part of the image at the same time and therefore uses large amounts of RAM. We recommend a minimum of 500 MB of RAM, but 1 GB would be better. If you are using a standard size image from a digital camera on a computer with 256 MB, or less, you may experience a reduction in the speed at which ArtMaster and ArtMasterPro run. The answer is to either reduce the image size of your original photo or to increase the RAM. In respect of the latter option, we recommend that you take your machine to a shop or company that specialises in putting RAM chips in computers.

One last point concerns your hard-drive. As with all creative software, to obtain optimum performance keep at least 750 MB of your hard-drive free and regularly run a de-fragmentation program across the entire drive to keep the space clean and contiguous. To find the Windows Disk Defragmenter, press the Windows Start button at the bottom left-hand corner of your computer, click Programs, then Accessories, then System Tools and lastly click on Disk Defragmenter.