PS help

[luciusad2004]

Ive been trying to crop an image in photoshop and i keep getting this message

"Could not complete your request because scratch disks are full"

I don't use Photoshop so i don't know anything about it. I'm just trying to crop something.

Can anyone out there offer any help?

Thanks for the help

[Airbozo]

out of disk space?

[Ticien]

When you start photoshop, it creates a temporary partition on your HDD to store your work as you do it (thats where it keeps track of your history, etc.), and it erases this partition when you close the program. if you go into the preferences menu, and flip through it there should be an option in one of the screens to set the size of the "scratch file." If you have room on your hard disk, just make this file size bigger. It should fix the problem (if i remember everything correctly)

[luciusad2004]

In the preferences it has the option of which disk to use as the scratch disk and it says that the scratch disk should be my start up disk. Im pretty sure my start up disk would be c: which has 27 GB free.

Edit: Thanks Ticien Ill see if i can find that

Edit: Im not finding an option to make the file size bigger..

I might just try down loading gimp. Ive gotten it to work with gimp before and that was on a computer with much lower specs.

[jdbnsn]

I am sure there is a setting problem that could be easily fixed, I've never used Gimp but have used PS for a while and am very impressed with what can be done with it if you are willing to take the time and learn. I found this in a photoshop online manual regarding scratch disks, skip to page 74 and especially read the last paragraph, it may help. http://www.adobe.com/products/adobemag/archive/pdfs/98wiqaph.pdf

[luciusad2004]

I got it to work in PS by increasing the cache size but it ended up using so much ram it slowed my computer to a crawl. After i went through that i found out i couldn't save my file as a jpeg. I ended up doing it in Gimp. Idk i don't really do photo editing anyway, its to difficult. I don't know how some of you guys do the sort of stuff you do.

[Drew]

It's for the love.....



And waaaaay too much time to kill.

[Ticien]

Maybe thats the setting i was thinking of...cache size...sorry :/

some people that heavily use PS will actually get a second hard drive and use it as a scratch disk.

you would think I would know how to fix it seeing as i am in a PS class at school and my major is 3d animation but for the life of me I cant think of anything else to tell you besides what others have said. That manual seems to sum it up pretty good what I was thinking.