Speed up your Photoshop: Complete guide - Photoshop Tutorials

		Speed up your Photoshop: Complete guide Complete guide of how can you make your Photoshop run faster!

		Allocate a scratch disk. select Edit>Preferences>Plug-Ins & Scratch Disks. Then choose a drive that has the most free space from those listed in the pop-up menu. If you have other drives listed you can also allocate these as extra Scratch Disks.

		Set RAM percentage
		If you experience slower performance when raising the percentage of RAM allocated to Photoshop, try reducing the total amount to 50-60 percent for systems with up to 2GB, and 70 percent for computers with 4GB of RAM. Remember that you have to restart Photoshop after making any memory changes to ensure that these alterations will take effect.
		Minimize History States
		The Photoshop History palette is a great feature, especially if you make mistakes very often. If you go in the Edit > Preferences > General dialog that can be used to alter the number of History States (or undo steps) stored by your system. By default it is set to 20, but if you find that Photoshop is running slowly after making a few editing changes then try reducing the number. Less History States does mean less opportunity to reverse editing changes, but this action frees up memory resources and can bring new life back to a slow running machine.
		Reduce the number of open files
		To speed up the processing, make sure that you only open (and keep open) files that are essential for your current editing task. Select Window and you`ll see how many files you have opened.
		Alter the Image Cache setting
		Select Edit>Preferences> Memory & Image Cache and enter a value from 1-8 in the Cache Levels text box. You can elect to store from 1-8 cached versions of the photo. A value of 1 disables the caching. Higher values store multiple versions of the file, which in turn produces faster screen redraws. The default setting is 4, but inputting higher numbers will help speed up the redraw process.
		Display and cursor settings
		Select Edit>Preferences> Display&Cursors Whenever you have an image open and you move the pixels, Photoshop must redraw the entire image. This can take some serious processing power if you’re working with a large photo from, say, an 8-megapixel camera. To speed the process up, turn on the Use Pixel Doubling checkbox in the Preferences dialog (under Display & Cursors). Photoshop will temporarily double the size of the pixels in the photo (essentially cutting the resolution of the image in half) for a fast redraw. It doesn’t make any permanent changes to the photo and as soon as you’re done using the tool, it returns the image to its normal pixel data.
		Disable plugins you dont need
		Each time you launch Photoshop, it loads plug-ins and presets into memory. Go to Program FilesAdobePhotoshop CSPlug-InsDigimarc These are some plugins you need to disable: DigiRead.8bf DigiSign.8bf Liquify.8BF Lens Correction.8bf VanishingPoint.8bf Note: How you gonna disable them? You just to place ~ (tilde) in from of the file name
		Disable Unneeded File Formats:
		Each time you launch Photoshop, it loads plug-ins and presets into memory. Go to Program FilesAdobePhotoshop CSPlug-InsFile Formats and disable the followings: FilmStrip PCX PhotoCD Pixar Targa Note: How you gonna disable them? You just to place ~ (tilde) in from of the file name
		Delete the Ugly Patterns:
		Each time you launch Photoshop, it loads plug-ins and presets into memory. Go to Program FilesAdobePhotoshop CSPresetsPatterns. You can safely remove them since they all are ugly looking and you can find a pattern that will suit your needs easly on Internet. To remove a pattern from the pattern preset, you need to go to the preset manager and delete them.
		Enable Pixel Doubling
		Go to Edit > Preferences > Display & Cursors By enabling pixel doubling, photoshop temporarily doubles the size of the pixels and restores them after you are done with your tool.
		Smaller Thumbnails with Palette Options:
		Go to Edit > Preferences > Display & Cursors Photoshop displays thumbnails for each channel and each layer. You can view smaller thumbnails on Layers tab and completely disable thumbnails on the channel tab. Each tab has its own options, the most important one is the history tab. In the History options, disable every option.