10 Tips to Speed Up Your Photoshop

Is your Photoshop running a bit sluggish at times? There might be a way to speed things up. Here’s a helpful 10.5-minute video by photoshopCAFE that goes over 10 tips that will help you squeeze the fastest possible performance from the program.

1. 00:50: Lose the welcome screen
2. 01:30: Shrink the New Document window
3. 02:00: Increase Recent Documents to 100
4. 02:45: Use 80% of your RAM
5. 03:20: Fix display issues
6. 03:48: Legacy compositing
7. 04:15: Scratch disk
8. 05:38: Don’t copy and paste
9. 06:40: Free up resources
10. 07:42: The fix all (resetting preferences)

Here’s an article we published a few years ago with a closer look at a few of the tips covered in this video.