Crash on Motion Blur???

[Joe_Crupi@adobeforums.com]

Hi there... I have done the following:

1. From Illustrator CS, I pasted a path (5pt dashed stroke) into PhotoShop CS.
2. Pasted the stroke as pixels.
3. Inverted the stroke.
4. Applied style (outer glow) to stroke.
5. Transformed stroke (perspective and distort)
6. Tried to apply motion blur (of 3) to the stroke - PS crashed when I pressed the OK button to apply the filter.

Any ideas?

Panther, Dual G5.

[Ramón_G_Castañeda@adobeforums.com]

How much RAM? RAM %?

[bryan_hughes@adobeforums.com]

I've yet to be able to reproduce this Joe, can you tell me more specifically how you inverted the stroke?, what the settings were on the blur filter (angle and strength)? and whether the transformations were done separately?

Thanks,

-Bryan

[Rick_Stare@adobeforums.com]

Bryan,
I had a note from one of our designers a few weeks ago who reported the same problem. Photoshop 7 quit when attempting to apply a Motion Blur. OS X 10.2.6. No other details. I have NOT been able to duplicate this in 7 or CS, but just wanted to chime in here that Joe is not alone. There is SOME combination of factors that causes this for some people.
* Rick

[bryan_hughes@adobeforums.com]

Thanks Rick,

I'll continue to look into this. If you or anyone else should come up with a specific, reproducible occurrence, then please let me know.

-Bryan (bhughes@adobe.com)

[Joe_Crupi@adobeforums.com]

To answer a few of the questions...

* 1 Gig of RAM in this G5...
* 50% used by Photoshop
* Stroke was inverted with Command + I shortcut
* Blur filter settings varied (I tried a few)

Perhaps I need to allocate more RAM in Photoshop? I'd rather not do this as 99% of the time I have either like to have Illustrator or InDesign open along with Suitcase, Safari, Entourage, iTunes and MSN Messenger.

[Ramón_G_Castañeda@adobeforums.com]

Joe,

Well, if you are assigning 50% of your available memory to Photoshop, just keep in mind that it represents 50% of whatever is left after the OS and all those applications you have running use whatever they need. You don't want to increase it too much either, or the System won't have much room left later on.

If you want to keep all those apps running (and that's perfectly understandable) the solution is to get more RAM. Then you could allocate more to Photoshop. It can use up to almost 2GB if you have, say, 4GB of RAM or more. If you get just 1 more GB of RAM, you could go to 80% for Photoshop

[bryan_hughes@adobeforums.com]

Hi Joe,

I still can't reproduce this, and have tried on several machines (both G4s and G5s). If there's any information that you or anyone else should find, please pass that on. I'll continue playing around with memory configurations.

Thanks,

-Bryan

[Joe_Crupi@adobeforums.com]

Bryan,

Try opening a Hi-Res file, duplicating the Background layer, and then doing the instructions from my first post on the hi-res file (on a new layer).

Joe

[Rick_Stare@adobeforums.com]

Joe,
I followed your instructions, but no problem encountered. G4 dual 1.2 GHz, 1.5 GB RAM, AI CS and PS CS. Mac OS X 10.2.6.
* Rick

[Ramón_G_Castañeda@adobeforums.com]

Joe,

Have you tried trashing the Photoshop preferences yet?

[Wade_Zimmerman@adobeforums.com]

Crash on Motion Blur, you would expect that won't you!

Well I thought it was funny!

Let see if you guys can come up with a better one!

[Unregistered]

Seems you PC too old for Photoshop. If I'm correct - this issue happens only when Motion Blur angle differ than 0 degree ? If yes it means Photoshop trying to use MMXCore.8bx and FastCore.8bx plug-ins for speeding up process, but those instructions doesn't supported by your PC CPU. Just rename this plugins extensions from .8bx to .old and it can solve your problem.
Good Luck

[Unregistered]

Seems you PC too old for Photoshop. If I'm correct - this issue happens only when Motion Blur angle differ than 0 degree ? If yes it means Photoshop trying to use MMXCore.8bx and FastCore.8bx plug-ins for speeding up process, but those instructions doesn't supported by your PC CPU. Just rename this plugins extensions from .8bx to .old and it can solve your problem.