Focus Magic Crashing

[hubell]

I have been using Focus Magic for capture sharpening my H3D-39 files and earlier film scan files. Excellent results. However, I have been consistently getting a message "Memory Full" when I click to apply the settings and then CS3 crashes. This is with larger file sizes (e.g.,400mb+ H3D files where I have assembled a 3 frame panorama). Any idea what might be the problem? Mac Pro, 10.5, 5 gigs of ram. It happens even after a fresh start of CS3 and with no intervening PS moves
TIA.

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

I've had the same thing happen recently a few times when I have tried using Focus Magic on a stitched image, and mine is CS3 on a Windows XP Pro system. A work-around that seems to do it for me is the following:

1.   Exit CS3 and restart it. Load in the component images (without the stitched panorama).
2.   Then run Focus Magic on each of the component images.
3.   Then stitch them together again.

This may put the final sharpening at a less-than-optimum point of the workflow, but the result looks OK, and it works.

I hope this helps. And I hope Focus Magic comes out with an upgrade that makes more effective use of available memory. I suspect the designers weren't thinking about panoramas.

-Eric

[JeffKohn]

Due to the way Photoshop manages memory simply restarting PS may get around the problem. I can't say that I've seen any issues with this, even with stitched panos upwards of 80-100mp. I'm running Vista64 with 8GB of ram though, which means I can give a full 3GB of memory to PS.

[hubell]

I've had the same thing happen recently a few times when I have tried using Focus Magic on a stitched image, and mine is CS3 on a Windows XP Pro system. A work-around that seems to do it for me is the following:

1.   Exit CS3 and restart it. Load in the component images (without the stitched panorama).
2.   Then run Focus Magic on each of the component images.
3.   Then stitch them together again.

This may put the final sharpening at a less-than-optimum point of the workflow, but the result looks OK, and it works.

I hope this helps. And I hope Focus Magic comes out with an upgrade that makes more effective use of available memory. I suspect the designers weren't thinking about panoramas.

-Eric
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Thanks, Eric. I did finally resort to separately sharpening each file before combining them in CS3. I use Focus Magic for capture sharpening only, so its just a matter of inconvenience. However, I thought it was a problem with the way I had my Mac configured. Apparently I am not alone. My sense is that Focus Magic is not being supported well in terms of upgrades. Too bad. Nice, simple to use product with terrific results.

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

I never had a problem with Focus Magic until very recently, when I started playing around with stitching. I agree: it's been a long time since any upgrade.

-Eric