Need Some Help With CS6 and an 18 Frame Panorama

[BackdoorArts]

Had a great morning shoot in Mountain Lake, NJ, watching as the fog rolled off the lake. At one point I shot a 16-frame panorama with the D600. I'm trying to merge them in Photoshop but am getting an error during the process saying my "disc is almost full". I've got 88GB available on my Macbook Pro, and each frame is about 21MB, so the math isn't making a lot of sense. Before closing Photoshop after the error I did a space check and only 61GB were showing, so it sucked up 27GB in cache just to that point in the process (it went back to 88GB when I closed the program).

Other than resizing the photos first, which I'm assuming is the best possible solution, is there something else I can do to facilitate the process?

 

[Dave_W]

Increase the size of your scratch space. The problem isn't your hard drive, it's your memory and you have to give PS permission to use additional disc space for memory storage. Close out all other programs on your computer except PS, increase the physical memory to 80% and increase the scratch by a good 10 gig or more and that should fix it.

It may take awhile before it's finished. Scratch memory is extremely slow compared to flash, but it should work.

 

[ohkphoto]

Had a great morning shoot in Mountain Lake, NJ, watching as the fog rolled off the lake. At one point I shot a 16-frame panorama with the D600. I'm trying to merge them in Photoshop but am getting an error during the process saying my "disc is almost full". I've got 88GB available on my Macbook Pro, and each frame is about 21MB, so the math isn't making a lot of sense. Before closing Photoshop after the error I did a space check and only 61GB were showing, so it sucked up 27GB in cache just to that point in the process (it went back to 88GB when I closed the program).

Other than resizing the photos first, which I'm assuming is the best possible solution, is there something else I can do to facilitate the process?

I used to have this problem when I used PS with Macs. It seems like I always had to find some hidden setting somewhere to give PS access to more memory. Aggravated me to death.

​I hope you find the solution because I'm looking forward to seeing that panorama!

 

[WhiteLight]

Do you have anything in your trash?
I know it's very simple but i've had this issue before.
After deleting, if the items are still in your trash, that space will not be available till it is emptied.

And secondly, is it saying 'disc is full' or 'out of memory'?
Cos while working on panos, a lot of processor & memory gets gobbled by PS having you quickly run out of memory.
If you have these indicators in the notification area, like istats menu or something, it'll exactly show what's happening with your hardware.

If it is saying 'disc full', then like Dave said, it's talking about your scratch disk.
Do you have partitions in your HDDs? Then you may need to add more partitions to add more space to the scratch disk in preferences.

You can also try deleting the PS temp files, which can be quite sizeable.

I have been in these situations where absolutely nothing worked.. especially while working with a large number of files for panos.
I just couldn't get PS moving forward...

So an alternate is to use this prgram called 'Auto Pano'
A dedicated stitching program and my personal opinion is that the panos output by this program can be just as good if not better than PS

 

[BackdoorArts]

So far no luck. I cannot find anywhere in CS6 for the Mac where you can specify anything other than RAM and Cache size. Scratch only assigns what disc you want it to use and displays the current amount of available space (92GB at present). I've cleared cache, restarted the machine and only brought up Photoshop and Lightroom and still get the same error. When it craps out I have a partially merged workspace file that shows 5 separate merged sections, some bigger than others, all within a single canvas that's 112" x 132" and is 5.6GB. I'm stymied.

 

[WhiteLight]

Had this situation a number of times..
eventually blamed my system though it had 16gb RAM & over 3 tb free space.

That's what led me to trying out alternate programs for panos..
and must say i was very happy with Auto Pano..
you have options to force all images into one pano amongst others

 

[Dave_W]

Although I've not encountered your problem, the times I've had a large number of files to stitch together I found doing them in stages made it much easier. Do pairs of photos and then pair the pairs together and so on and see if you can't trick it into making the pano this way? Also, be sure to "flatten" your resulting pano images before you save them, that will produce a much smaller file than if you keep all the layers

 

[BackdoorArts]

I was wondering if I could do them in sets of 4 or 5 and have it work in the end. I'll give it a shot. I definitely don't want to invest in another piece of software. I've got 32GB of RAM and plenty of hard drive space.

And yes, I always flatten the image immediately post merge to do any cleanup on the seams if required.

 

[Don Kuykendall_RIP]

Now the question is what focal length were you using where you had 18 frames for a pano? was it 360°?