YouTube Photoshop tutor Colin Smith has shared a video in which he demonstrates ten tips for making the application run more smoothly.
His tips on the Photoshop Cafe YouTube channel include ways to streamline the program’s interface as well as methods to assign more memory to help with intensive tasks. One of the best tips shows how to avoid processes that use more memory than is necessary when we are copying one image on to another.
The tutorial is aimed at new users, but out of the ten tips there is bound to be one or two that even more advanced users aren’t aware of or hadn’t thought of. Smith claims his final tip will solve 99% of problems most users have with the software. Below is a rundown of the ten tips and their respective timestamps in the video:
0:48 - Remove the welcome screen 1:30 - Shrink the New Document window 2:00 - Increase recent documents up to 100 2:48 - Increase how much RAM Photoshop uses 3:20 - Fix varies display issues 3:50 - Go back to legacy compositing 4:20 - Tweak your scratch disk settings 5:42 - Don't copy and paste 6:43 - Free up resources 7:44 - The 'fix all' solution (and bonus tip)
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Good stuff. But really, assigning memory usage is a little arbitrary. If you have 128GB of RAM, it's really not a problem. The lower your memory, the more you need to assign. It's a balancing act, but it would actually be more constructive to just suggest that people should add a bunch more memory to their systems. It really does make a difference.
Really - If you want all of the features there is no alternative, not in GIMP, not in Affinity Photo either. Especially if you want to do some special compositing techniques or work with advanced channel masking it becomes really thin.
If you don't use these kind of features then you probably are already OK with using MS Paint.
Adobe, write it from the scratch. Stop patching/beating.dead.horse. Write it from the scratch so that PS/LR can see all cpu cores and gpu. Stop favoring Intel, AMD is equally good. New memory management New scratch disk management Look what Capture One Pro is doing, it's running circles around your outdated programs. And we can go on like this forever...
It is interesting to see most of recommendations are around turning off new features (so it behaves just the way you were used to it, rather benefiting form new features)!!
You don't need to "speed your workflow." You need to be VERY SELECTIVE of the files you put work into and then treat each worthy file with the detailed perfective post-processing that it deserves. Go slow and achieve perfection and true pictoriographic excellence. As in true art (which photography is NOT), LESS IS MORE. In fact, start the selectivity BEFORE you push the shutter button and, even before that, with planning and goals.
Regarding FPS, It depends what you're photographing, sports and many wildlife photographers would disagree with you, but if Lightroom actually ran at a decent speed it would transform my workflow.
I disagree. Art is subjective, not objective. If someone thinks something is art then it is art, for them. If someone else thinks the same thing isn't art then it isn't art, for them.
Ha ha! This. Went to a wedding a few months ago. The photographer took at least 140 shots of the signing of the register - I guess some folks just like editing (a lot).
Agree with you general sentiment, except that quip about photography isn't art. Photography is simply a medium. Any medium can be applied to art. However, the action >PRINT 100 COPIES< is most definitely not art.
Some types of shooting require massive shot count and lots and lots of editing. I spend an average of less than 1 minute on each selected shot. But the longest I've ever spent editing one shot is 3 months.
The "one size fits all" advice of Protogonus1 is wrong, as the correct advice is to tailor your shooting and editing to the particular type of shooting you are doing at that time.
Willgo, I'm about halfway in agreement, but I think 'art' really is anything anybody produces to express his or her thoughts and or emotions. 'Art' isn't interchangeable with 'excellent'. Some IS of course, and a lot really just isn't—but even the bad stuff is somebody's personal expression.
This reply assumes that you are only using Photoshop to post-process photos you take with your camera. This is only one use for Photoshop... many users use Photoshop for other reasons, for example in a pre-press or graphic design workflow. In these instances it's not a case of culling the shots you process... you process the ones you need to in order to complete your task. As such, any steps that expedite the workflow are relevant.
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