<p>Hi Stan, this is my first contribution to a forum.. yey.<br>
I'm an IT consultant so I'll give you some advice (for what its worth)... any serious graphic app is going to need reasonable computing power. In this respect, computing power is a combination of RAM size and speed, hard drive capacity and speed, processor power and GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) power. 1GB of RAM ain't going to be enough, you want to get as much as you're system can use. If you are running anything less than Win 7 or a 64 bit operating system, you will not benefit from any more than 3GB. This is because these O/S's can't utilise more than 3.5GB. Having said this, if you're GPU uses shared memory then go for the 4GB RAM.<br>
As for the choice between NX2 and Photoshop, I once agonised over this. I think it's really about personal preference, what you find you're most comfortable working with. In the end I wound up using NX2. It does everything I want, I found it easier than Photoshop or Lightroom (it's different to these, so if you're used to them, NX2 can be a challenge) and to me the end result looks great.<br>
What I did was play around with all of them for a while. There are some great free online resources. The trick is to follow a "work flow" on you're own subjects.<br>
As for NX2 performance, it's not that it's that much less stable or slower than the Adobe products, it's that there is much more support for the later. This makes it easier to resolve any issues you might have, and Adobe releases more bug fixes and patches. It took me a bit of effort to get NX2 running nice and fast.<br>
Once you've sorted out you're RAM, there are a couple of things you should do for NX2;<br>
1. Update you're drivers<br>
2. Load the latest MS Visual C+++ Redistributable<br>
Anyway, try them all out and go with what you're comfortable with.<br>
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<p>Hi Stan, this is my first contribution to a forum.. yey.<br>
I'm an IT consultant so I'll give you some advice (for what its worth)... any serious graphic app is going to need reasonable computing power. In this respect, computing power is a combination of RAM size and speed, hard drive capacity and speed, processor power and GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) power. 1GB of RAM ain't going to be enough, you want to get as much as you're system can use. If you are running anything less than Win 7 or a 64 bit operating system, you will not benefit from any more than 3GB. This is because these O/S's can't utilise more than 3.5GB. Having said this, if you're GPU uses shared memory then go for the 4GB RAM.<br>
As for the choice between NX2 and Photoshop, I once agonised over this. I think it's really about personal preference, what you find you're most comfortable working with. In the end I wound up using NX2. It does everything I want, I found it easier than Photoshop or Lightroom (it's different to these, so if you're used to them, NX2 can be a challenge) and to me the end result looks great.<br>
What I did was play around with all of them for a while. There are some great free online resources. The trick is to follow a "work flow" on you're own subjects.<br>
As for NX2 performance, it's not that it's that much less stable or slower than the Adobe products, it's that there is much more support for the later. This makes it easier to resolve any issues you might have, and Adobe releases more bug fixes and patches. It took me a bit of effort to get NX2 running nice and fast.<br>
Once you've sorted out you're RAM, there are a couple of things you should do for NX2;<br>
1. Update you're drivers<br>
2. Load the latest MS Visual C+++ Redistributable<br>
Anyway, try them all out and go with what you're comfortable with.<br>
Cheers</p>