![]() You can try tweaking that setting by letting Photoshop use a little bit more memory and see if it helps. You’ll see a recommended an ideal range, and it’s highly recommended that you don’t go over 85% of the memory available on your computer, to leave some memory for other applications. You’ll find that option under the Performance tab of your Photoshop preferences. There’s a setting to tell Photoshop the amount of RAM that it’s allowed to use. This will make the files larger, but they’ll save faster.įor that, go to the File Handling tab of your Photoshop preferences and check the Disable Compression of PSD Files option. If you’re working with PSD files, save time on file saving by disabling compression on them. Recovery Information Saving Preference Disable PSD File Compression To do it, go to the File Handling tab under your Photoshop preferences and change the Automatically Save Recovery Information option to something like 30 minutes. If Photoshop crashing is not something that has been an issue for you, you can get a bump in performance by setting that recovery information auto-save to happen less frequently. Turning off the Export Clipboard option Save Recovery Information Less OftenĮvery so often Photoshop saves some recovery information on your working file so that if the software crashes it can pick back up where you left off. If you don’t tend to do that in your workflow, you can disable that clipboard exporting and save some memory.ĭo do that step, go to the General tab under the Photoshop preferences and uncheck the Export Clipboard option. Disable Export Clipboardīy default, Photoshop keeps your clipboard full with data in case you want to copy something to another software. Now you’ll have to reconfigure Photoshop to your likings, but at least you’ll be working from a fresh place settings-wise. You’ll be presented with a dialog that will ask you if you want to delete the Photoshop Settings file. ![]() To do that, when starting Photoshop, hold the Shift + Option + Cmd (Windows: Shift + Alt + Ctrl) and then click to start Photoshop. This may help if you have a nagging suspicion that the slowness is due to preferences from old versions of Photoshop somehow conflicting with your current Photoshop install. There’s an easy way to delete Photoshop’s settings file and therefore reset the settings to the default values. In this post, I’ll try to distill some tricks to improve the performance of your Photoshop install and get you back to working at full efficiency. So maybe you’ve been finding that things have been getting slower in Photoshop and that certain operations are now lagging. That’s especially true these days with most people upgrading their computer equipment less often than a few years ago. It can handle a lot, and sometimes that comes at the cost of computing resources. Adobe Photoshop is a very complicated, advanced and powerful piece of software.
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