How to FIX LAG with Photoshop

Are you experiencing lag with Adobe Photoshop? Here are some tricks to fix that asap because we all know designers hate crashes and delays – Blame Adobe! You can speed up Photoshop with these simple tricks in this video.

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[jasonWilliamsond]

At work I use 2014 over 2021 even on company subscription, at home still use cs6.. Identical files opened in 2021 vs cs6/2014 is night and day in performance in favor of older versions. Once you start making 20+ layers on 4k files you notice it, the older versions stay buttery smooth with over 140 layers, newer versions freeze and randomly lag on brush strokes and whilst performing basic operations. Using a dual xeon workstation 128gb ram, 2x 1080ti - older card but still overkill for photoshop.

[arjohnvillaester]

What version Photoshop are u using mate?

[MoD_Master_Of_Disaster_]

It was the first tip, the smoothing, that when set to 0 made all snappy again.
Cheers

[kseniap]

thank you, switch graphic card usage to basic and now performance is totally fine! i've never suspect that "advanced" is bad, jeez. Tysm!

[atharvasinghchoudhary]

I have rtx2070 super, i7, 32gb ram.
I tried everything, Upgraded the drivers but it still running very slow.
It takes around 1 min to fill background colour in the layer.
I even reset my pc and reinstalled ps21.

[remyblas]

OMG this was it!! Thank you! I've been looking all over for a fix because yesterday my Photoshop was working fine and today I couldn't do anything because of that lag. Turns out I probably raised the smoothing to 100% while trying to raise the oppacity of a brush. Again, thank you! This has saved my life.

[bladechild]

It honestly just feels like the complexity of Photoshop's development over the years has gotten away from Adobe. There are numerous flagrant issues with it like this that have gone unfixed for years. I got a brand new graphics card recently and the program is flat out unusable in GPU mode. They should not be allowed to charge what they do for it.

[mackthedog]

how am I supposed to rotate the canvas without OpenCL active?

[ShanitaKumar]

Been struggling with a laggy brush for over a week now and turns out all I had to do this whole time was turn the brush smoothing down to 0%. 🤦‍♀ Thank you for this video! Wouldn't have known what to do without it 🙏🏼

[JohnnySix]

After nearly 30 years of using photoshop it feels like everything they've added ( or taken away ) recently is almost trying to make the whole experience worse. From the shambolic save dialogue system to whole new lag / bugs on really basic features like panning the canvas.

[RedFlytrap]

Don't know why, but mine lags when transitioning from image canvas to panels. Whenever my mouse goes over the panels in photoshop from being within the image canvas, it just lags like crazy. Then goes back to normal, it's seriously odd and I haven't found anything detailing why this happens.

[christianmwanza]

Thanx alot!!! would you say editing in 16bit causes lagging? i shoot RAW images on a 45megapixel camera and each file is like 80megabites...

[Simon_Squared]

Hey, quick question! I am using an RTX 2060, I7 9700F, and 48 GB of ram, however, I noticed that I get significant lag when performing tasks such as undoing, redoing, and especially drawing with a brush. Nothing I have tried seems to fix my issues. Do you think you might have an answer? Thanks!

[meowbowwow]

Thanks, Jeremy. I was pulling my hair out but turning down the smoothing level did the trick.

[AsyLumb]

I know this is an older video but I've been struggling with lag in Photoshop - specifically when using sliders in adjustment layers - & have been searching a solution. I have already tried a lot of stuff suggested in this video, but not file size. I create photo manipulations & often have quite a few layers, but I never know how large to create my document at the beginning. So what would you suggest? Something tells me my documents are too large. And thanks for the tips!

[graemejackson]

Sooo, whats that first brush you're using? I have the Kyle set, but can't find this one...

[joxford]

Like others, I dont see the "Basic" setting and Im on PS 24.1.1 and my NVidia GTX 3060Ti drivers are up to date as well.

[Iampetkovarts]

Iam with asus zenbook 13 oled i7 11 gen and iris Xe, 8 lpddrx ram, so that spec is my problem for brush lag? Or i should to change my settings?

[Polytricity]

I'm using 23.5.1 and I don't see that drop down for basic, just advanced settings but then it only has the 3 checkboxes. My UI is laggy, slow response time for colour picking etc. 64GBRam, i9, 3070Ti and 4k monitor which I suspect is where some issues come from.

[ksockhak]

when i click advanced setting, i don't see the "drawing mode" option, any help is appreciated!