Sunshine

Here's how it looks right now. It did updates all day today. Search was already off and so was the hibernate mode. ALso did the scan but it didn't find anything. WHen i restarted after doing all the above steps, it still showed 100% disk usage, but that dropped in about 10 mins or so. Not sure if the problem is fixed, but definitely looks better for now. I will post again if it starts messing up. Thanks a lot for your help. The detailed instructions helped a lot. Really appreciate that

@Brian i really need help with this  

back to normal now. Nothing special that i did except starting PS nevertheless. is there a solution to this freak problem?

Hi Brian,

I have been having this issue for a while. I have a PC laptop running Windows 10 and Photoshop latest. It is over 4 years old, and has 16GB of RAM. Its hard drive has 642GB free out of 917GB. The last time I shut down was just before posting this thread. I run a cleanup program about once a month.

My disk usage stays at 100%. I did a lot of things including but not limited to disk fragmentation, cleaning HD, following MS instructions available on their website for 100% disk usage issue and what not. It fixes itself for a while, which means I start computer and leave it alone for 30 mins, and disk usage goes down to about 40%. I replaced battery too, this last weekend as it started giving me error and the laptop wouldn't work without being plugged in. However, the disk usage stays the same. Now its not even going down after 30 mins. the startup programs are nearly all gone too and for the life of me i cant figure out what could be wrong. Attached screenshots were taken just a few seconds apart and show different programs being on top of disk usage. Is running a car over it the only option, because the programs aka PS takes ages to open at this level. But I will be left without a laptop to do anything. Cant afford a new one. On forums it looks like a known windows issue and i have used all methods recommended by MS to fix it but nothing has changed. Please help!

9 minutes ago, Damien Symonds said:

I think you should find a forest photo that you can put behind your subjects.  That's the only way you'll make this work.

https://www.facebook.com/graystarphotography/photos/a.427923724420188/853741078505115/

That would be hard to find in middle of nowhere ?‍♀️ Let me see what i can find

I found a picture on  GrayStar photography's page on fb, pic post date is Mar 12 of a child and furry friend sitting on a log in a similar pose to this pic or I should say I posed the subjects in mine similar to this pic. I don’t  have heavy tree line behind though. Hope this image works. I would like to emulate a similar look.

website: https://www.graystarphotography.co.uk/

Thanks!

Sorry for hijacking, but how in the world do you reach those numbers Damien! I want to learn that too please! ❤️ 

On 3/14/2019 at 4:32 PM, Damien Symonds said:

Still the same.

2021 Still the same? Most laptops dont come with dvd players anymore

Hey Damien, can you please renew the psd link on this? ?

I never tried it. I couldnt get the pen tool to work so gave up for a while. That a while turned into "I forgot".

true true! OK i will try give it a shot and come back

so basically use the pen tool around the edges of the leaf, and extract the outline of it? NAd then color it?

Lol! No but seems like fun. WHats your plan?

Nope! Tried it once and with the lack of resources, gave up

As we discussed, here is a picture i pulled from google search, and my own picture. Can we possibly do something like this ?

I found out about the updates as I saw it happening. I clicked install updates and it showed me updating firmware. I still haven’t gotten around to looking at dell support. Will try tomorrow when kids are back to their routine and update 

Thanks a bunch! I will call them

PS: I ran glary while I submitted this and it seems to be doing better after that but I am cautious to say that just yet. 

38 minutes ago, Damien Symonds said:

It's 11:15, and that DOES require cropping.

Agreed. Just a different way. 

I will try again. Thanks for your guidance

4 minutes ago, Damien Symonds said:

workflow to include cropping, because at least SOME of your images will need cropping.

Agree, so we crop here to what all we want to include? Then where we set the web size. I am lost now sorry!

5 minutes ago, Damien Symonds said:

fix aspect ratio"

11:6 (or the standard you recommend-I cant remember the exact number sorry) including all the picture details we want to see, and then save to the pixel size is what i mean

Ok I am PS rookie...You gotta explain a little more how please ?

Why are we cropping picture here? Should we just fix the aspect ratio here and when do save as, there use the pixel size for web? I see that it actually crops the picture and limits the size and i have to pick what areas i want to keep. Instead,what if i dont want to crop and want to keep the picture as is, and then later determine the pixel so i can keep the complete picture. ? Basically I dont want to crop

Hi Brian,

I have Dell Inspiron Touch screen laptop, with intel core i7, 7th gen, that I bought 3 years ago. I use it for photography stuff and recently installed python, and working on small projects. I am taking some courses and will be doing that starting next wek too. It did a firmware update yesterday, and since then the laptop has ben SLLLLLOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWW. Taking nearly 10 seconds or more to respond to each click. I have close to 500GB or free space and the same amount used.

I ran Glary last month and just now and it cleaned cache and stuff. Has it got something to do with firmware update? What else i can do to fix the issue? I really do not want to buy a new HW right now. Thanks a lot for your help

Okies Danke!

I have recently started posting to FB and IG.