Quicksilva,
RAM only becomes a serious issue when working with larger files, as disk swapping files takes over (and that can be slow if your hard drive is nearly full - worth checking!).
Even on modern PC's Photoshop in it's earliest incarnations is a serious memory hogger - it will take everything you have and more if it can, so if you are using a version previous to 6.x then I would suggest that yes its normal, especially if the dpi is high and the canvas size is large.
I would not say that it is layers as much as what you are doing with them, I think there's a 100 layers limit anyways (used to be).
Are you working in CMYK or RGB?
What DPI are you working at? 300dpi for print would soon bring a reasonable system to its knees if you were working at large canvas sizes. For B3d work you should be working at between 72dpi as the resolution is lost to monitor technology.
You can find out the dpi when you make a new document, if it is set up to be 300dpi you may wish to alter that.
For anyone who wants to get some really ace video tips using photoshop, go here:
www.learnflash.com and search out the photoshop video tutorials.
I hope some of that is helpful or useful.
IPete2.
RAM only becomes a serious issue when working with larger files, as disk swapping files takes over (and that can be slow if your hard drive is nearly full - worth checking!).
Even on modern PC's Photoshop in it's earliest incarnations is a serious memory hogger - it will take everything you have and more if it can, so if you are using a version previous to 6.x then I would suggest that yes its normal, especially if the dpi is high and the canvas size is large.
I would not say that it is layers as much as what you are doing with them, I think there's a 100 layers limit anyways (used to be).
Are you working in CMYK or RGB?
What DPI are you working at? 300dpi for print would soon bring a reasonable system to its knees if you were working at large canvas sizes. For B3d work you should be working at between 72dpi as the resolution is lost to monitor technology.
You can find out the dpi when you make a new document, if it is set up to be 300dpi you may wish to alter that.
For anyone who wants to get some really ace video tips using photoshop, go here:
www.learnflash.com and search out the photoshop video tutorials.
I hope some of that is helpful or useful.
IPete2.