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The Synergy Group provides recruitment, training and consultancy solutions to public and private sector employers across the UK. Established in 1997 Synergy has successfully grown by delivering its services with integrity and professionalism and is now firmly established as one of the leading providers of staffing solutions in the country.

Organisations within The Synergy Group are able to provide a wide range of services to help resolve resourcing and skills issues:

The Synergy Group – public and private sector jobs and contracting

Training Synergy – people, resources and services for training projects and managed training programmes

Synergy has built on its initial success with steady year-on-year growth. With an annual turnover of around £34 million, Synergy is a substantial business – but not one that is so large that it has lost its sense of community. We’re big enough to have all of …

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As with every designer we colaborate with, mentions the Photoshop CS5 problem. The key difference between Photoshop CS4 and CS5 is that  CS5 is a full 64-bit application. This is what Adobe says caused it so much work and delay; rewriting the user interface from Carbon to Cocoa.

Photoshop CS5 does have new features, but for those working with huge files, the 64-bit part is essential. It means that working with bigger files can be much faster, because operations can be performed in RAM.

The days of the scratch volume are over for Mac Pro users with adequate memory (excepting really monster jobs exceeding 60GB or so).
Memory usage
Memory in 32-bit CS5 is limited to 2100MB, nearly 1GB less than with Photoshop CS4 (3072MB vs …

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