Y a rien de mal a papier, je suis passée voir ta galerie cet après midi et j'ai vu un trad d'un de tes persos. Ca donnait un côté "innocent" que j'ai beaucoup aimé !

45 minutes, ça fait effectivement un peu court pour se concentrer à un travail de longue haleine, j'espère que tu arrives à tout sauver...

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Ugh, I know the feeling. The animation software I use tends to freeze up my computer, and then I lose all of that tedious work...
I wish you luck, Moo. Hope you find a new computer soon.
A good suggestion, save often. xD

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Try to save up for a medium-priced laptop/desktop (?)
Also, a question, how does your computer act, does it overheat or just freeze..? Because mine used to overheat at PS activities, until I got it cleaned, so wondering if yous doesn't have a dust issue as well.

Other than that, just like petiteUlis said above, there's nothing wrong with paper...apart from the fact you still have to color the lines afterward xD; So you still get PS freeze...

Anyway, if you're still going to try drawing on this compy, make sure to save often AND save a backup copy of the file (save and re-save, switching every 30 kins-an hour between the file.psd and file_backup.psd)

...hope that helped, and sorry for you losing 45 mins of work+pretty file, sucks I know >.<; -pats you-

Edit: Oh, an additional solution would be...downgrade. I don't know what PS version you're using now, but maybe try downgrading. As low as PS7 it's fine (I have both CS2 and 7) and PS7 eats up way less compy resources.

Awww, that sucks.. but, actually, I love drawing on paper with my beloved mechanical pencil That's heaven for me lol

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I feel your pain. My computer has trouble handling even Photoshop x.x I anxiously save every two to three minutes; more if my computer starts making angry sounds.

As someone said: downgrade? I use Paint Shop Pro 7 (not any later versions!) for most my work, since it doesn't kill my computer.

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Oh well the problem in my case isn't photoshop, or any software for this matter, it's something to do with the hardware and it acts in a irregular way so that you never know if the PC is to be working all day long or if it might freeze in 10 min

Ack damnit.

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Aw no! I know exactly what you mean! My computer died about six months ago and I've stealthily highjacked my mom's hehe. Just a few days ago my Intuos died... well the cord is frayed and it works no longer. Joy! D:

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