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How to speed up Photoshop's performance

How to speed up Photoshop's performance

From the course: Creative Quick Tips

How to speed up Photoshop's performance

Hi there, welcome back to another episode of Creative Quick Tips, My name is Justin Seeley and this week we're talking about Adobe Photoshop and how to speed it up so that it works a little bit faster for you. Now this is a question I get all the time, especially with people who have older computers or not a lot of RAM is, how do I make Photoshop run faster? In this movie I'm going to take you through some of the things that you can do to help increase the speed of Photoshop, but all in all, your best bet is to do two things. Either add RAM to your computer or switch to something called a solid state hard drive. But there are little tweaks you can do inside of Photoshop to make it run a little bit smoother. So, let's take a look. First things first. We're going to open up our Preferences panel. We're going to do that by clicking Cmd or Ctrl+k on our keyboard, and once we do that, we're going to go down here to the Performance tab. Once we're on the Performance tab, there's a couple of…

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