If you’re not using it, purging the contents of history and clipboard frees up resources.ĥ) Set drawing mode to Basic – Preferences > Performance > Graphics Processor Settings > Advanced Settings > Drawing Mode > BasicĦ) Turn off Animated Zoom – Preferences > General > Animated Zoom > Uncheckħ) Turn off Flick Panning – Preferences > General > Enabled Flick Panning > UncheckĨ ) Set Cache Levels to 1 – Preferences > Performance > History & Cache > Cache Levels > 1, note this can effect plugin and effect quality so use with caution.

The history feature of photoshop is useful but it takes up a lot of memory. If you’re going to be saving a relatively low quality version of an image anyway, reduce the image resolution to a tolerable level to gain a nice speed boost.Ĥ) Purge History & Clipboard – Edit > Purge > All. Each open file can take up a significant amount of memory, which can quickly lead to slow downs.ģ) Reduce an Images Resolution – Working with higher resolution images and files uses more resources. Solve this by allocating more RAM or by having less open windows.Ģ) Close Unused Document Windows – If you’re not actively using an image file, close it.

This list was aimed at Mac OS X but there’s no reason the tweaks wouldn’t benefit a Windows PC too if that’s what you’re stuck with at work.ġ) Watch the Efficiency Indicator – At the bottom of any open PS window you’ll see an “Efficiency” gauge, if this falls below 100% that means you are using the scratch disk (hard drive) for memory and Photoshop will become slower. Some of these tips are gathered from a Google Docs file that was sent out on Twitter (hey follow OSXDaily there!) and we’ve added a few comments to those tricks and added some of our own performance recommendations as well. With that in mind we’ve compiled a list of tweaks, adjustments, and tricks to speed up Photoshop.

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