8 Killer Tips to Optimize Photoshop Performance | Make Photoshop Run Faster

Does your Photoshop CC slow when opening files? or becomes unresponsive, laggy in performance on big files? You want Photoshop to run quickly with peak performance. No worries, from today you can then edit your photos, resize, filters, sepia, crop, rotate and flip, photo editing, or any photo manipulation with best photo editor, photo tool, image editor; known as - the PHOTOSHOP. Moreover, your Adobe photoshop CC will speed up its performance in any graphic design effects you working with. Learn to solve the question why is Photoshop CC so incredibly slow? and different tips, tweaks & ways to work faster in Photoshop CC. If you're working with the large images and your photoshop running slow then optimizing the performance of Photoshop can be crucial to avoid sluggishness of Photoshop. I have seen, the best computer for adobe photoshop working best with peak performance, but my intention to post this article to boost your current photoshop performance with your current PC. In this post we will see the best settings to boost the Photoshop performance, by using these as well as with other compiled tips; the working of Photoshop gets more effective than ever you seen before. For better results follow these suggestions described over here & find the appropriate steps to implement that in according to your use as well as in matching of your system.

Optimize Photoshop Performance | Make Photoshop Run Faster

In previous tutorial we have seen how to make pc work faster to play any HD videos on slow config. system. But today we are going to learn an advanced tested OK tutorial about Photoshop for making its performance much better than ever.

Also, read: Quick 5 Tips to Speed Up Windows, Boot Time & Make Windows Faster

Quick Tips To Speedup & To Make Photoshop Run Faster

These following quick adjustments can make all PS things better than ever. This tutorial going to provide you some quick tips on how to speed up Photoshop performance just by tweaking some settings in preferences. These tricks do not only improve the operational performance but also the user experience in handling the user's task only by configuring its preferences.

1. Allow High Memory Use

You need to ensure that Photoshop can use maximum amount of RAM available on your system.

Choose Edit > Preferences > Performance > Memory Usage

2. Add Scratch Disks

It's nothing but Virtual Memory. If your disk have multiple drives then you can add those as scratch disks to allow PS for using your disk as memory for better performance.

Choose Edit > Preferences > Performance > Scratch Disks

3. Reduce History & Cache size

Note that the more Cache Levels you have, the faster Photoshop CC will work. Adjust following setting according to your use. History & cache size allows you to undo the changes for images. I use following for fast performance.

History States to 100
Cache levels to 10
Cache tiles size to 1028K

Choose Edit > Preferences > Performance > History & Cache

4. Adjust Painting Cursors

Quickly select normal brush tip which uses less processing time.

Choose Edit > Preferences > Cursors > Painting Cursors

5. Remove pre-loading of fonts

Whenever PS opens, all fonts installed in the system also pre-loaded into RAM, which need not that much necessary if font is not used mostly while manipulation of images.

Choose Edit > Preferences > Type > Type Options > Font Preview Size

6. Uncheck Export Clipboard

If you are not using any copied data other than in Photoshop, then its best to uncheck this option. It causes more data leakage when you copied data and not willing to paste elsewhere.

Choose Edit > Preferences > General > Deselect Export Clipboard.

7. Restrict file saving options

In order to reduce the RAM & CPU+GPU usage, its essential to cancel the caching of image previews. And check the box "Save as to original folder"

Choose Edit > Preferences > Performance > File Handling

8. Remove unwanted fonts

It's just like point no. 5, but in the Windows, a number of fonts will affect the loading time, as well as the working performance, of both Windows, and especially of Photoshop. So I recommended you clear out the unwanted fonts folder and get rid of fonts you never use, and never will use. This will also improve the loading time of the Photoshop.

[Update 20 May 2016]

Quick-Tips

1. GPU setting:
You need to keep updated your graphics driver for optimized GPU operation.

2. Dragging is better:
High memory usage is occurred while Coping & pasting, so instead of that, use dragging of images.

3. Close all other applications:
Make sure to close all other applications if you are not using while you are on PS, this surely freed up additional memory to boost Photoshop operation.