Best PC to buy for Photoshop CS5, Premiere Elements and Proshow Producer

I am looking for a new PC to replace my 10 year old one.
This would be used primarily for Photoshop CS5, Lightroom, Premiere Elements and Proshow Producer.
I am thinking of going to Digital Storm to get one of their top line gaming machines with Sandybridge cpu, high end video card and at least 16 to 32 gb Ram
(although I do not play games on the pc}.
Is this overkill, or would a different kind of PC be better?
what do you recommend?
jaslu1

I'm definitely going to look into it. Thanks. Have a great holiday.
From: TLL... <[email protected]>
Subject: Best PC to buy for Photoshop CS5, Premiere Elements and Proshow Producer
To: "Jay Slutzky" <[email protected]>
Date: Friday, July 1, 2011, 11:38 AM
Dell Precisions are great machines, you could look into their Studio or Studio XPS too. Not quite workstation qualtiy but I'm beating the snot outta one @home and it's holding up well for a 600 buck eBay chassis...

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I've just installed Photoshop CS5 on my computer which alreadys had Premeire Elements 9 on.
Initially when I tried to launch Photoshop I got a crash to do with the scriptingsupport.8li which was resolved by disabling the plugin, however now when I try to launch Premiere Elements or the Elements Organiser, I get a windows error box.
Premiere Elements 9 is crashing due to a problem with WS.dll. I've tried restoring the dll from the original cab folder and checking for updates and installing the latest ones but still the problem persists.
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I'm definitely going to look into it. Thanks. Have a great holiday.
From: TLL... <[email protected]>
Subject: Best PC to buy for Photoshop CS5, Premiere Elements and Proshow Producer
To: "Jay Slutzky" <[email protected]>
Date: Friday, July 1, 2011, 11:38 AM
Dell Precisions are great machines, you could look into their Studio or Studio XPS too. Not quite workstation qualtiy but I'm beating the snot outta one @home and it's holding up well for a 600 buck eBay chassis...

Best Mac Pro Setup for Photoshop CS5

I've read around that it's not needed to have the fastest (and costliest) Mac Pro to run Photoshop CS5 at it's best.
However, there doesn't seem to exist any discussions involving the latest models (Feb 2012).
Which would be the optimal Mac Pro available today for running large files (1GB and up) in Photoshop CS5?

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Is there a path for projects between Premiere Elements and Premiere Pro?

As an educator who has been teaching FCP7 for several years, we are preparing to purchase new equipment and most likely go to the Adobe Suite. However, I want to know if Premiere Elements is functionally similar to Premiere Pro, and if it would be a good option for beginning students prior to moving to Premiere Pro.

rich experience
Premiere Elements is an excellent program and is in many respects not a second citizen to Premiere Pro.
The principles of the programs are the same. And, although some Premiere Elements features might not be as full as Premiere Pro, they
can get most of the tasks done.
Is this your first experience with an Adobe product in your teaching facilities?
If you have not, please work through or have your IT people work through the program permissions angle on this matter.
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environment, this can create problems.
Another consideration is the level of support help to expect from Adobe once you have purchased the product.
At the Premiere Elements level, often you are directed by Adobe to Ask the Community (us, user to user) and in some limited ways Adobe Chat.
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Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended Student and Teacher Edition

I would like to buy Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended Student and Teacher Edition. Is that still available?

Here is link to academic version qualifications. http://www.adobe.com/education/eligibility-guide.edu.html?showEduReq=no
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Best hardware/OS for Photoshop CS5

Hi there,
i want to build a new PC, optimized for Photoshop CS5, with Windows OS.
Can anybody tell me the optimal hardware configuration to make Photoshop as fast as possible?
The program is primarly used for poster design.
how much ram makes sense?
is there a noticeable speed increase using 8GB instead auf 4GB?
is there a noticeable speed increase using quad-core/six-core CPU instead of dual-core?
is there a noticeable speed increase using GTX460 Graphic Card instead of a GTS450?
what is the best hardware for photoshop CS5?
what OS can you suggest me? is win7 64bit the best windows os?
Thank you for your support!

Windows 7 64 bit professional.
8 gigs of RAM because it is dirt cheap and Photoshop loves RAM. Most motherboards allow more RAM if you wish to update.
Don't know about Nvidia cards. I use a ATI 5870. Video card drivers play a important part. But the Nvidia card suonds about Right.
4 core is fine. 6 cores I don't own yet but maybe next year.
I use AMD processor 4 core on my main rig. AMD uses motherboards that can be used over and over for most processor updates and just require a bios update. The Newer AMD processors due out soon may need a new AMD3+ board but that is not official so the AMD2 boards may work saving money.
Intel's are nice but everytime Intel comes out with a new processor line the board is always different.
I run a i720 on my laptop and PS runs great.
Buy a good power supply that will have extra power incase you upgrade later. Don't buy cheap power supplies.
At least a 7,200 RPM hard drive. Get 2 internal ones. One for your OS and programs and one for PS scratch disk and storage.
Quality DVD burner.
Motherboard is up to what you want with the processor type. AMD or Intel. Read up on the internet and also the websites you buy from for customer reviews.
Look at SSD's with TRIM support for a boot drive too. These have reallycome down in price. Use a hard drive for a scratch disk. Get a velocity raptor that spins at 10,000 RPM. 600 gigs are offered now at a cheap price.
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Why Do Both Photoshop CS5 (64 Bit) and Premiere Pro (64 Bit) Crash on Start up.

Both Photoshop CS5 (64 Bit) and Premiere Pro (64 Bit) Crash on Start up. 32 bit version of Photoshop works fine.
Here is the problem signature when they crash.
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name:          APPCRASH
Application Name:          Photoshop.exe
Application Version:          12.0.0.0
Application Timestamp:          4bbc5b10
Fault Module Name:          CoolType.dll
Fault Module Version:          5.7.82.7602
Fault Module Timestamp:          4b980c97
Exception Code:          c0000005
Exception Offset:          0000000000073a92
OS Version:          6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48
Locale ID:          1033
Additional Information 1:          7c82
Additional Information 2:          7c821a1fc13b00b508d1bb6ee7ecaf44
Additional Information 3:          019c
Additional Information 4:          019cb6db15489631b8a43faf27e30830
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Problem Event Name:          APPCRASH
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Application Version:          5.0.3.0
Application Timestamp:          4ce382d1
Fault Module Name:          CoolType.dll
Fault Module Version:          5.7.82.7449
Fault Module Timestamp:          4b7b1af3
Exception Code:          c0000005
Exception Offset:          00000000000739ea
OS Version:          6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48
Locale ID:          1033
Additional Information 1:          889a
Additional Information 2:          889afed61eb6ddf1c1c3419adc6026b6
Additional Information 3:          8235
Additional Information 4:          823549a371dff618695395cc0a8514ee
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It does not necessarily mean a "corrupt" font, but can be a font that PrPro, and PS, cannot handle.
Though I have read that changes have been made, Open Office's DejaVu font would crash PrPro's Titler - every time. There are quite a few others. Font Dr, and similar utilities, will not see the font(s) as corrupt, but they are so poorly designed, that PrPro and PS cannot deal with them.
Though it can be a long, drawn out process, one can often zero in on the problem font(s), with a little work. This is accomplished by first defining the "System Fonts," and not touching them. Then, uninstall half of the remaining fonts, and testing PrPro and PS. If they launch fine, you know that somewhere in that list of fonts, the problem exists. If there is still a failure to launch, chances are good that the problem font(s) reside in that half, that are still installed. Note: because the problem still exists, does not guarantee that there are NOT problem fonts in that uninstalled group, so keep that in mind.
Repeat the proces, by uninstalling half of the remaining fonts and testing.
If necessary, repeat by removing half of the now remaining fonts and testing.
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Keep notes on which fonts you are uninstalling and reinstalling, until you narrow it down to the problem font(s).
I would start by uninstalling any "free fonts," and then commercial, 3rd party fonts. A lot of free fonts are just poorly designed, and can cause issues, though they might work fine in some other programs.
I use a font manager, so that I only have ~ 350 fonts installed at one time, and then dynamically install fonts, as needed for Projects. That keeps my machine clean, and if, upon installation, I get a crash/hang, I know that at least one font in that Set is causing it. This helps, as my workstation has ~ 19,000 fonts on it, and some are free fonts, and many are from 3rd parties. Some are also very, very old.
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Adobe Pixel Bender Plug-In for Photoshop CS5

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Where can I find the plugin to open camera raw files for Nikon D810 for Photoshop CS5.1? I've looked around the site but cannot get this to work.. Thank you.

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