My understanding is Adobe camera raw cannot process ps files at all. It will just process one of the four raw captures that makes up the ps file.

I use silkypix DS Pro which processes them just fine

Thanks for all the advice. I found the displayport cable and I am back in business. Today have been busy installing stuff.

I remember as a kid watching "Tomorrows World" (showing my age now) and hearing that computers would in the future give us all loads of free time to do other things

Lovely set. 4 and 5 stand out for me.

Thanks for the other comments.


I will install photoshop, Lightroom and silkypix to the SSD. I will save the photos to the hard drive (not SSD), otherwise it will get filled very quickly. I have 170gb of photo files in my collection already, and the K1 files do take a lot of space. I am quite ruthless in deleting all pictures that don't come up to scratch.


I have no problems setting up photoshop as I am a recent adopter of it via the CC system. I used Elements before so quite easy to navigate.

my problem at the moment (computer arrived today) is to find the correct cable for connecting to the screen. The old VGA cable will work but wont give me screen resolution above 1920x1080. The video card specs say I need a "display port" cable to get the full 2560x 1400 res of my screen.


Why do they make it so complicated ?

I have gone for a the system I have gone for has 16gb ram , 240gb ssd , and 4gb graphics ram and 2tb hard drive. I am hoping for a big improvement. My main problem has been 5 or 6 blue screen moments a day recently so I had no choice to get a new rig

What I do at the moment is to store all my images on a removable separate drive for the very reasons you mention. So they will be accessible even if the computer completely crashes. In addition I back up to a second removable drive.

I intend with the new computer to have my images saved to the computer hard drive but not the ssd one on which the OS is installed on. I will continue to back these up on a separate removable drive.

My question is really whether I will see a benefit from having photoshop installed on the ssd drive as oppose to the traditional hard drive. Answers so far on the other forum suggest the answer is yes

Not sure what you mean by this. Are you saying I should not install photoshop to the ssd drive (where the OS is) ?

I intend to import and save any photo files to the traditional hard drive.

I am getting a new computer with Win10 OS (new to me) a SSD drive (new to me) and a traditional hard drive.

I won't be storing photos on the SSD as i don't want to fill it up, but is there an advantage in installing Photoshop for example on the SSD to speed up operations ?

Very nice. The texture jumps out at you.

never knew leather grew on trees

Oh Gareth, you have hit the target again.

The rail lines shot has to be my favourite.