{"id":510,"date":"2021-09-13T05:53:26","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T05:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bunnypic.com\/?p=510"},"modified":"2021-10-04T05:38:07","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T05:38:07","slug":"adobe-photoshop-running-so-slow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bunnypic.com\/adobe-photoshop-running-so-slow\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is Adobe Photoshop So Slow?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Adobe Photoshop is the best tool for graphic designers and photographers to edit, manipulate and retouch photos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Being the most popular software for creatives all around the world, Photoshop is an advanced, robust, and complicated tool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is an extremely powerful software with thousands of resources, but sometimes this is too much to handle for your computer which can result in Photoshop slowing down, lagging, or sometimes crashing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this article, we\u2019ll discuss some common reasons that make Photoshop slow, how to speed it up, and using BunnyPic<\/a> as a faster and free alternative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Huge Library of Resources and Presets<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The first well-known reason for Photoshop slowing down is a large number of files it includes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The large library of resources can cause Photoshop to eat up a lot of your PC\u2019s RAM which causes it to slow down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photoshop also allows you to install custom presets into your Photoshop files which would further slow down your PC as Photoshop takes time to properly read and implement these files.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This could be irritating as even when you don\u2019t use a certain preset it would still drastically slow the app down to read it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Possible Fixes:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

If you have a lot of custom presets installed you can try deleting as much as you can.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These custom presets are files that are not essential for running Photoshop deleting these will make it less laggy and more responsive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Working with Large Documents<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

If Photoshop runs smoothly on some projects and lags on some others this might be because of the size of the document.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When working with larger print files Photoshop requires more RAM and GPU memory for rendering which will slow it down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Possible Fixes:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

When working with large documents you can set smaller dimensions and then as your saving it, scale it up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example, if you are designing a screen saver for a 1080 x 1920 monitor then you could use smaller dimensions for the initial document setup such as 540 x 960. This is proportional to the original dimensions and will ensure your design looks the same when scaled up to 1080 x 1920.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another thing you can do is compress your PSD files which would speed up the rendering process by sacrificing some quality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Custom Preferences<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

There are several preference options that Photoshop uses to enhance the user workflow and experience. Sometimes, these preferences end up doing more harm than good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are several options you could switch around in Photoshop to make it faster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Disable Export Clipboard<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

By default, Photoshop keeps your clipboard full of data in case you would want to paste something into other projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you don\u2019t intend to keep the data saved on your clipboard you can disable this default setting by hovering over Edit > Preferences > General > Untick Export Clipboard.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Increase Maximum RAM Usage<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Photoshop has a setting that limits the RAM it uses to not override your computer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can tweak this setting to let Photoshop use more of your RAM making it faster. To do this, go to the Performance<\/strong> tab in your Photoshop Preferences, over here you will see your memory usage<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can drag the slider to increase or decrease the RAM usage however it is highly recommended you don\u2019t go over 85%<\/strong> as it could cause issues with your computer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Purge the History<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

When working on a project, Photoshop keeps a saved data of all the actions you perform to undo, edit and use the clipboard for a better workflow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This data starts to get pretty big pretty fast and starts eating up your RAM, making Photoshop slow down and laggy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A simple fix is to go to Edit > Purge > All<\/strong> to delete all the saved data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your Computer is Outdated<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Finally, if any of the above fixes didn\u2019t work, it could be that you\u2019re computer specs do not meet the system requirements for Photoshop.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Adobe\u2019s system requirements<\/a>, to run Photoshop effectively, your PC should have:<\/p>\n\n\n\n