Error--not enough Ram!

[pobo35]

I was attempting to do an aquatic background on page 28 of the latest Element Newsletter. It tells me to use a cloud filter and then a radial blur filter. When I enter OK for the radial blur--it comes up that I don't have enough memory. According to my system information, I have 1.27GB Memory Physical of total 2048.00Mb phyical memory. I also have 2.0 GB Virtual Memory with 196 GB Virtual Memory available. I made sure I had enough memory for PSE when I bought this computer. Don't tell me I'm going to have problems with layers, filters etc. Can anyone advise me please?

[Buffalo Tony]

you can increase the amount
of ram for photoshop in
CS2 in the preferences
menu, I assume you can also
do it for elements also

[Inspeqtor]

Patti,

Go to Edit/Preferences/Memory & Image Cache (I think this is where you need to go) My PSE is set at 55% for Maximum Used by PSE. Check yours.