Introduction to Optimizing Your Photoshop Installation
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Introduction to Optimizing Your Photoshop Installation

on Apr 20th 2012 with 9 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Program: Adobe Photoshop CS5
  • Difficulty: Beginner
  • Estimated Completion Time: 6 Minutes

Final Product What You'll Be Creating

Photoshop has a variety of tools to edit your images, and almost as many settings that you can adjust to get optimum performance from the software. In this tutorial, we’ll take a look at some of the options available in the Preferences dialogue box. Let’s get started!

 
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A.J. Wood is an Adobe Community Professional & Adobe Certified Instructor based in Dallas, TX. The only thing he enjoys more than photography & teaching is spending time with his family. Chat with him on G+ or catch his blog.  

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  • Irina

    Great Video. I learned a lot. Thanks!

  • http://lanooz.net Lanooz

    Ok, but I was always wondering what is considered as “big files” and “many layers”?

  • dj

    Nice run through of the settings – good points – for your delivery you may want to do an air check and see if you think you ought to tone it down a bit. I felt sorta like I was listening to a rodeo announcer – yippi- ki-aye. And lanooz makes a good point – when fooling around with most program settings, I often feel like I do when my car dies along side the road. Of course I always dutifully lift the hood and look around; but, usually the most that I can ever say is “look at all the pretty hoses.” When you say “too many” – about how many is that 2, 10, … ?

  • Bloaxor

    “Some people get nervous not having 20 (history states)”.
    I myself use 255 history states, and guess what.

    Still not enough. :|

  • Lily Daw

    I learn a lot from this site about photoshop

  • http://www.enblancocreativo.com Enblanco Creativo

    Thank you, is good to back to the basics once in awhile

  • A.Zee

    U dude seems know wt u’re doin’ .. Cheers ..
    I’m usin’ a Cs5 piece .. An’ I tried to apply some of the changes u showed above in ur video such as ( interface > enable gestures )
    But I didn’t find that option to check it or uncheck it !!!
    So .. R u usin’ a cs6 here ??

  • PSnewbie

    What is the good effect by un-checking the ‘Export Clipboard’ ????? I did understand well sorry.

    • PSnewbie

      I mean ‘I did not understand’ well coz im really a beginner.