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Tips for Speeding up Photoshop

Postby julievive on Wed May 09, 2007 3:36 am

Speeding up Photoshop:

To optimize the performance of Photoshop, you should consider these things. This work best for me and you might consider trying these tips. :wink:

*You need to have a higher capacity of Memory
*Tons of RAM
*Try to set up a scratch disk
*Fast Processor
*By customizing your system so it runs efficiently, you can increase the amount of memory available to applications.
*Disable plug-ins that are not in use
*Switch off the thumbnail previews in the tool palettes never looks at these anyway and, if you name them accurately, you will not need to look at the preview either. This saves memory and processor power each time you add and update a layer.
*Keep your 5000+ fonts anywhere but in your font folder
*You can minimize the size of your files by reducing their resolution, Increasing the resolution of an image does not always improve the quality of the image, but may instead only increase its file size.
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Postby thehen on Wed May 09, 2007 7:03 am

Cool, some nice tips. Another one is to use an older version of Photoshop :)
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Re: Tips for Speeding up Photoshop

Postby Evilkenivel on Wed May 09, 2007 7:44 am

julievive wrote:Speeding up Photoshop:

*You need to have a higher capacity of Memory
*Tons of RAM



press Ctrl + K
go to Memory & Image Cache
and increase maximum RAM used by photoshop up to around 70 %, its a nice speed boost
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Postby julievive on Thu May 10, 2007 6:08 am

oh guys thanks for the additional tips... i hope everyone will read this 8)
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Postby DonTony on Thu May 10, 2007 11:32 am

nice tips julievive, but evilkenivel, your ctrl + K tip doesnt work here :S what should happen?

Edit:
sorry, my foult,
it works now ;)


But does anyone here has problems that photoshop is too slow?
sorry, but i only get this problem when I'm using C4D or adobe after effects.
OR
when i'm using After Effects, C4D, photoshop, imageready, flash pro 8, firefox, bitcomet, msn, limewire and neroburingrom at the same time ;).

I tried once, but beleve me, it's not good... :P
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Postby Evilkenivel on Thu May 10, 2007 5:39 pm

how many ram do you have?

if you increase the memory usage of photoshop to 70 % you should not run to many applications in the backround

i'd recommend at least 1024mb ram, i'm working with 2048mb and never had any speed probs
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Postby DonTony on Thu May 10, 2007 9:18 pm

i have 1536 mb ram

also a nice trick when someone has much programms located on his desktop.
press Ctrl + a and then enter
errors guaranteed!
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Postby julievive on Fri May 11, 2007 2:45 am

here's another tips in speeding up photoshop... this could be helpful to us :wink:

http://www.earthboundlight.com/phototip ... p-cs2.html
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