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A couple of Photoshop speed tips Apps

I make my living with Photoshop and have found that limiting the number of history states allowed will add dramatic speed gains to many filters and functions. The default history state settings, for instance, will result in a slowdown of up to 50% in portions of the Photoshop benchmark tests.

Go to Photoshop -> Preferences -> General and change the default history states to as low as you can tolerate ... the lower the better for speed gains.

Additionally, uncheck Export Clipboard and you will get rid of the annoying delay and nag that occurs when your clipboard chokes on the huge chunk of data that Photoshop tries to export every time you leave the program

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A couple of Photoshop speed tips
Authored by: jwiggens on Aug 29, '03 06:53:43PM

excellent tip! i noticed a dramatic speed increase, especially on exiting.



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Re A couple of Photoshop speed tips
Authored by: profolio on Aug 30, '03 08:31:43AM

Although there's no substitute for ram, Photoshop requires a lot of disk space for temporary files (history etc.)For people who have a single partitionned drive,limiting the history function makes sense.I have found that assigning the scratch disk to a secondary non-boot internal drive (if available) also increases performance and keeps fragmentation to a minimum.


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Re A couple of Photoshop speed tips
Authored by: sigurarm on Aug 31, '03 07:33:37PM

It is best not to use the volume that holds the System as a scratch disc. If Photoshop fills it it can vipe out preferences for many applications like Mail and many others. This is a known issue but not much talked about.

Secondly I want to point out a great shortcut to gain multiple undos in PS. Option+Cmd+Z jumps up one history level at the time. This option is what you might loose if you shorten the History levels too much.

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A couple of Photoshop speed tips
Authored by: echo on Sep 02, '03 04:14:37AM

Another speed tip I use is increasing the percent of maximum ram used by Photoshop (available in preferences). Default is 50%, and I've read the recommendation in the PS forum to increase to 80%. I use 75%.



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