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jabber · Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2002 2:10 am

Hello,

i was just wondering if anyone has some suggestions on speeding the processing of photoshop.

i would like to be working in a 5X7 inch canves at 300 ppi, but painting boggs down, espcially when using smudge tools and the like.

i have a celeron 466, 512 megs of ram, 40 gig hard drive. a bit dated i know, but it gets me buy. any tips?

Dr. Bang · Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2002 2:15 am

"celeron 466"

Thats a bit too old, oh yea, its a celeron, so its like a Pentium 300

Mr. T · Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2002 3:00 am

turn off spacing when using the smudge tool

eyewoo · Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2002 4:47 am

CPU speed drives tools like the smudge. Even with fast CPUs, the smudge is sluggish when you work at 300 ppi.

Loki · Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2002 10:04 am

Fast CPU, lotsa memory (a gig if you can), fast harddisk or array, nice gfx card and a lot of ram throughput.

Smudge never was fast enough to work with - switching the spacing off helps a lot (glad to see that this trick gets around now).

Turn your history down to 4 steps instead of 20 and lose the snapshot at the same place.

with PS5.0+ hiding the channel window makes the little watch disappear that otherwise pops up after every stroke ...

eyewoo · Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2002 2:32 pm

Hey... Thanks Mr. T. I've been using Photoshop for 10 years - I never knew turning off spacing would have that effect on the smudge tool... very cool

jabber · Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2002 11:15 pm

sweet. well, im hoping to be getting a dual motherboard sometime in the near future, and drop 2 celerons 1000s on em, or something like that.

thanks for the tips

a0 · Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2002 12:45 am

ACK!! If you are getting a motherboard that supports dual processors, at LEAST put in a minimum of a Pentium III CPU...none of this Celeron stuff

smalbrain · Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2002 12:47 am

delete the digimarc plugin directory in the photoshop folder - its just for watermarks - this should speed up the loading process.

Mr. T · Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2002 5:15 am

actually i picked that tip up from loki's site

thanks loki

razzak · member Member # Joined: 25 Jan 2002 Posts: 183 Location: -

hey that spacing trick is really cool!!!!!!! it works really well. also getting rid of fonts that you dont use is helpful.

Pat · Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2002 10:36 am

You don't have to hide the channels palette, you can just go into the channels options and turn thumbnails off. Do this for layers as well and you should be really zippy.

-Pat

glody · Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2002 12:59 am

If your using just photoshop, and you want to allocate all the Ram to photoshop....which in a celeron, i wouldnt recommend...well anywhoo...go to

EDIT---->Preferences---->Memoy and Image Cache....Turn OFF USE CACHE FOR HISTOGRAMS

Under Physical Memory Usage, you can use the slider to allocate the percentage of ram used while working with photoshop..after you mess with those options, id close photoshop and then get back into it for the changes to take effect. hope that helps some peeps....

Sedone · Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2002 6:39 am

That smudge tool trick is DA BOMB!