I have been thinking about my finder freezing incident I just posted about, & I remember that I was using my epson perfection 4490 scanner. When I used it for the 1st time on my mac, it had me install something called Rosetta.
Ever since, when I use the scanner, it is a little slow, but works, but I have noticed that when ever I try to move the boundary boxes to crop the area I want to scan, it gets very slow, does not respond right away, & makes the fans on my mac spin up louder. So I found that this was less efficient in my workflow, especially when I am scanning many items at once, so I ended up just scanning the whole item & white background, to later crop in photoshop. I found this was faster than trying to adjust it in the epson scan preview window, before scanning.
I also notice that when ever I use the cropping boundaries in photoshop, it makes the fans spin louder on my mac. In addition, when ever I switch tools in photoshop to say, from paint bucket to a crop tool, it is very slow, & takes about 30 seconds or more for it to switch & have my mouse cursor back, it works but is a little slow, it has always been like this.
I am running CS5 design suite premium, epson scan for epson perfection photo 4490, & mid 2010 macbook pro 4gb of ram, snowleopard 10.6.8.
I have downloaded the latest drivers from epson for my scanner, but it is a little slow.
I put this out here in case anybody might know more, as I hope my hard drive is not dying already.
Ever since, when I use the scanner, it is a little slow, but works, but I have noticed that when ever I try to move the boundary boxes to crop the area I want to scan, it gets very slow, does not respond right away, & makes the fans on my mac spin up louder. So I found that this was less efficient in my workflow, especially when I am scanning many items at once, so I ended up just scanning the whole item & white background, to later crop in photoshop. I found this was faster than trying to adjust it in the epson scan preview window, before scanning.
I also notice that when ever I use the cropping boundaries in photoshop, it makes the fans spin louder on my mac. In addition, when ever I switch tools in photoshop to say, from paint bucket to a crop tool, it is very slow, & takes about 30 seconds or more for it to switch & have my mouse cursor back, it works but is a little slow, it has always been like this.
I am running CS5 design suite premium, epson scan for epson perfection photo 4490, & mid 2010 macbook pro 4gb of ram, snowleopard 10.6.8.
I have downloaded the latest drivers from epson for my scanner, but it is a little slow.
I put this out here in case anybody might know more, as I hope my hard drive is not dying already.