Comments on: Professional Tips for Improving Photoshop’s Performance

By: robb

robb — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:12:08 +0000

i always believe if it’s not upgrading the specs, then keep all unnecessary services off. but great article though.

By: Khaled

Khaled — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:45:03 +0000

Nice!

By: Kajik

Kajik — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:44:58 +0000

Hi,

you could get even more performance by upgrading to a 64-Bit system, turn off different preview settings or features which you don’t use or upgrade your graphic card. You could additionally buy some very fast, high-revving hard-disks with plenty of capacity to use them as scratch disks. Other than that, there’s not much to experiment with.

By: Navarro Parker

Navarro Parker — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:04:15 +0000

Hmmm… Not entirely sure how these tips improve Photoshop’s performance — unless someone is running an old computer with limited RAM.

Any professional designer will already be using a multi-core machine with at least 4GB of RAM and a recent OpenGL card. So hows does one who already has a maxed out machine get even more performance?

By: spiderm0nkey

spiderm0nkey — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 02:28:48 +0000

So have a dual boot system with your 32bit OS and the 64bit OS…

By: huwaw69

huwaw69 — Mon, 25 May 2009 13:12:20 +0000

this really helps, when i was using photoshop its really kinda slow but now, its really performing well! thanks for sharing!

By: masterfader

masterfader — Fri, 15 May 2009 13:35:53 +0000

As far as I know, mac users can’t go to 64-bit, because the OS is 32 bit based.
I am sure that this will change when Snow Leopard (10.6) will come out.

Normally I will leave my memory usage to about 85%, but I always close other applications to dedicate the graphic card only to photoshop or Aftereffects, but never the two of them open at same time.

Great tutorial, very helpful.

By: Kajik

Kajik — Thu, 14 May 2009 16:29:32 +0000

Hi Liora,

Try to remove all unnecessary brushes, organize them in different folders inside the designated Photoshop directory and adjust the preview size of the thumbnails.

You can additionally use a .abr preview tool like this:

http://www.easyelements.com/abrview.html

to have a better preview outside of Photoshop before loading them into your Preset Manager. You can take a look at the ABRView video tutorial for further information about the product:

http://videos.easyelementsextra.com/abrview/ABRViewTutorial.html

I hope that helps for now. I’ll try to post a better resource or tip, should there be any. Thanks & Bye

By: Liora

Liora — Thu, 14 May 2009 11:46:59 +0000

Thanks. Do you have any tips for the Brushes Palette – specially when there are a few hundred brushes?

By: de

de — Fri, 08 May 2009 11:56:14 +0000

very nice