Help my Photoshop CS5 is telling me I dont have enough ram.

Hi I have been working for hours creating a new flyer. I have finally got it just right and I get the message that I cannot save it because I do not have enough Ram. I have 2Gig of Ram so I do not understand why it is saying that. Can any body suggest a way I can save this 'masterpiece'?

 

Why not create new documents from the layers and save them individually? Bit of a pita but at least you will have your work saved.

 

I assume you have close all other programs running and other .psd files opened, right?
Run The antivirus.

 

it means your photoshop is in a paritition that doesnt have the same ram your MAIN partition has.
What you wanan do than is just save for web and devices instead of a normal save.

 

I did think about that but I need to save it at 300dpi as it is being sent to a print house to be made into a flyer.

 

I have tried that. I do not have any other program running and it still tells me I do not have enough Ram.
Gosh, bring back the days when I could work with an 80 meg hard drive 12 meg of ram and photoshop 3.

 

Just looked on the PS CS forum and someone is talking about using 12gb RAM to run it smoothly.
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/656271

Having said that, the min. requirements according to Adobe are 1Gb.
http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/photoshop/systemreqs/

Do you have any apps running in the background that are eating into your available RAM? FF, for example, will often 'leak memory' so it gradually eats up more and more the longer you leave it open.

 

i'm running photoshop smoothly with 4gb ram, 1gb video ram (GPU acceleration!! AWESOME! can zoom and separate pixels from others, can prush pixel-at-a-time).

4 core processor always helps too

 

OMG can it really have bloated to that incredible size that it needs 4000 Megabytes of RAM to run properly. As I said, I could run version 3 on only 12Mb yes 12 megabytes of RAM with a 40 Megabyte hard drive on my lap top.

I thought windows couldn't handle more than 2gb of ram because of something in the processor. Cannot remember what they said.

Oh well.

 

300dpi for a flyer??
What is the size of your flyer?
I think that 150dpi will suffice
if the artwork is complete. Otherwise
you must have 100's of layers all
with effects etc. and you trying to save it as
300dpi.

Maybe try a test print as 150dpi.

 

Yes I did have a few layers. I am sending it away for printing and they want 300dpi. I really want these to be excellent quality so maybe flyer is the wrong word. They are like large business cards.

 

trying a lower version from photoshop...maybe it can help

 

it has been happening to me too.. 4gb of 1333mhz ram

 

i still like photoshop CS3. its enough for me, but sometimes i using photoshop 7 too. depending requirement