Photoshop Insider Training: Optimizing Photoshop's Performance

English | MP4 | 960 x 540 | AVC ~108 kbps | 15 fps

AAC | 128 Kbps | 48.0 KHz | 1 channel | ~1 hour | 784.7 MB

Genre: Video Tutorial / Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop greatly benefits from performance tuning. Through careful hardware configuration and preference settings, you can make Photoshop run faster and more efficiently—and a Photoshop system that runs efficiently is one that doesn't interrupt your creative process.

In this installment of Photoshop Insider Training, Photoshop senior product manager Bryan O'Neil Hughes steps through the process of optimizing Photoshop's performance.

The course begins with hardware configuration, from processor and memory recommendations to hard drive and solid-state drive (SSD) advice. Next, learn about the Photoshop preferences that deliver the best balance of performance and flexibility. Finally, discover the best way to move and save files and how other applications and even the health of your disk drive impact Photoshop's processes.

Content:

Introduction

Welcome

Exercise files

1. Optimizing Hardware

Optimizing a GPU and processor

Monitoring memory usage

Taking advantage of scratch disks

Managing cache levels and history states

Looking at Photoshop's GPU-based performance tweaks

Utilizing Save in Background and Auto Save

2. Techniques for Increasing Photoshop's Performance

Working within file-size limitations

Keeping an eye on the Efficiency indicator

Closing unnecessary document windows

Reducing image resolution

Using the Filter Gallery

3. Settings to Speed Up Photoshop

Reducing patterns and brush tips in presets

Minimize or turn off panel preview thumbnails

Setting Maximize PSD and PSB File Compatibility to the Ask option

Turning off the WYSIWYG font preview

Purging Undo, Clipboard, and history states

Dragging between files

Using layers wisely

Saving TIFF files without layers

Exporting without the Clipboard

4. Optimizing the Operating System for Peak Performance

Closing unnecessary applications and startup items

Repairing your drive in Mac OS X

Defragmenting the hard disk in Windows

Updating your operating system

Conclusion

Next steps

Autor: Bryan O'Neil Hughes