06-26-2015, 12:21 PM
Hey guys!
I'd like to invite you to share less commonly shared photoshop tricks and techniques.
You know that one thing you always do but you never see mentioned on tutorials? That thing.
Please keep the thread clean and post ONLY straight instructions and what it's for!
I'll start:
Photoshop performance tips:
Scratch disk management: go to Edit > Preferences > Scratch Disks
This next window will list all the disks on your system.
Check the disk you want to use as scratch other than the system disk. A minimum of 20gb available is recommended;
Uncheck the disk where the system is installed (usually C: in Windows).
This will reduce the disk access conflicts with the OS, and your big operations will turn more responsive.
Using Photoshop on systems with low memory RAM or extra heavy files:
Working with a lot of big images at once? Working on a image so big your system has loading bars for everything?
Couple of tricks will help your system go through the ordeal:
Go to Edit > Preferences > Performance and lower history states count. 10 is very light on the system; But beware you're will have this much fewer undo levels/history states.
Every time you do a image wide operation, like flipping a canvas, you can go to Edit > Purge > All (or whatever you deem adequate). Purging all WILL CLEAR YOUR UNDO HISTORY (This means you will be unable to undo anything before this operation) but it will also free all your ram and clean the files on the disk. Doing this every so often gives your system breathing room, and sometimes it is the difference between a system crashing and a workable environment.
Specific things can be purged, like your clipboard memory. Just beware that whatever is purged is, you know, really gone.
I'd like to invite you to share less commonly shared photoshop tricks and techniques.
You know that one thing you always do but you never see mentioned on tutorials? That thing.
Please keep the thread clean and post ONLY straight instructions and what it's for!
I'll start:
Photoshop performance tips:
Scratch disk management: go to Edit > Preferences > Scratch Disks
This next window will list all the disks on your system.
Check the disk you want to use as scratch other than the system disk. A minimum of 20gb available is recommended;
Uncheck the disk where the system is installed (usually C: in Windows).
This will reduce the disk access conflicts with the OS, and your big operations will turn more responsive.
Using Photoshop on systems with low memory RAM or extra heavy files:
Working with a lot of big images at once? Working on a image so big your system has loading bars for everything?
Couple of tricks will help your system go through the ordeal:
Go to Edit > Preferences > Performance and lower history states count. 10 is very light on the system; But beware you're will have this much fewer undo levels/history states.
Every time you do a image wide operation, like flipping a canvas, you can go to Edit > Purge > All (or whatever you deem adequate). Purging all WILL CLEAR YOUR UNDO HISTORY (This means you will be unable to undo anything before this operation) but it will also free all your ram and clean the files on the disk. Doing this every so often gives your system breathing room, and sometimes it is the difference between a system crashing and a workable environment.
Specific things can be purged, like your clipboard memory. Just beware that whatever is purged is, you know, really gone.