Photoshop Lightburst Issue

[coasternuts]

If you look at my marquee in my sig, you can see a lightburst coming from the letters.  I am now working on the full res version with some tweaks and I am now having a problem which I think is a photoshop bug. 

I increased the resolution to 26.5" x 8.5"  @ 300 dpi.  According to the lightburst demo: 

1) Distort - Polar Coordinates : Polar to Rect.
2) Rotate 90 CW
3) Wind
4) 90 CCW
5) Distort - Polar Coordinates : Rect to Polar.

But when I do this now, I get the following(note: preview shows the actual result) :

[M3talhead]

Post the original image you're trying to manipulate.

[coasternuts]

How do I do that?  The original .psd file is 33MB.

[coasternuts]

Ahh $%#@! 

I first tried this on a square resolution smaller window.  And the method works as expected.  So I thought the polar-to-rect was having problems with non-square.  So I made a large square window.  I convert to polar, do stuff, then try to convert to rect, and BAM,  not enough memory.  I guess the 640MB is not good enough for the images I'm working with.

I guess I'll put off the artwork until I can get more memory, unless you know of ways to optimize photoshop.

[Witchboard]

Sounds like your hard drive is running out of room.  Try moving your scratch disk to another drive with more room if you have one available .

[M3talhead]

How do I do that?  The original .psd file is 33MB.

Upen the image up in PS, then once you have the whole thing in view, take a screenshot (CTRL+Print Screen). Open paint and paste.

[cholin]

How do I do that?  The original .psd file is 33MB.

Upen the image up in PS, then once you have the whole thing in view, take a screenshot (CTRL+Print Screen). Open paint and paste.

Save it as a JPEG though because BITMAPS are retarted in size.

[coasternuts]

Ok.  Here is a lower res jpg of the lightburst I'm trying to create.

[coasternuts]

Since I could never get the lightburst issue resolved, I am thinking along new lines.    Any comments?  Kinda bland?  Blue not a good choice for text color?  Multi-color logo bad?  You rock! That's the best?

[coasternuts]

Well that looks like garbage!!! 

On my machine at home I couldn't see the background black as a different color black than what's in the galaxy.  I guess the gamma is screwed up on my monitor.

Gar!! The artwork is by far the hardest part about this project.   

[namedos]

Coasternuts,

Had the same problems that you are describing.  The reason you are getting the odd image is because you are working with a streteched rectangle isntead of something close to square.  I found that if you work with squre shapes it will work fine.

I used a lightburst effect for my background and at 300 dpi on a 28" X 28" image my PC couldn't handle it either and that is with 1 GB of RAM and 40MB or more of free hard drive.  I did find that if I shrunk it down to 25"X25" the image was signifcantly smaller and it could handle it.  When I then finished with my modifications I was able to enlarge it back up to 28X28 with no variance in the image that I could see.  I also used the zoom motion blur effect and that took a lot of horsepower.

I've been wanting to add a second hard drive and set it up as a scratch pad to see how that would improve performance with PS.

If you want to post an image here from Photoshop one of the easiest ways (at least with PS CS) is to save as web image and choose low quality.  It will transform into a JPEG image with no layers and typically it is less that 500KB.

Hope this help.