Photoshop Running Slow? 10 Quick Fixes!

Whether your Photoshop is lagging, running slow, or freezing, in this tutorial, we'll learn 10 super quick settings, techniques, and preferences you can set to make your Photoshop perform faster and smoother. Right from setting the right preferences to best practices when working with bigger files, we'll cover it all. I hope this video helps you. Thank you so much for watching :)

► TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Intro
00:13 Fix 1 - Purge
01:01 Fix 2 - Scratch Disks
01:42 Fix 3 - Memory Usage
02:20 Fix 4 - Graphics Card
02:41 Fix 5 - History and Cache
03:49 Fix 6 - Compositing
04:22 Fix 7 - Heavy Projects
05:44 Fix 8 - Unused Assets
06:29 Fix 9 - Version Issues
06:57 Fix 10 - Reset Settings and Preferences
07:36 Final Solution

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► LET'S CONNECT:

[aaaheldsinger]

I agree with you regarding the loading of unnecessary fonts. When I was still a newbie to Photo Shop, I started realizing that it was working slower and slower. I researched the problem and tried all the hints I got but nothing helped. I then realized that the problem started just after I installed large packages (hundreds + thousands) of fonts. I uninstalled all the fonts and just left the default fonts and Photo Shop was running at full speed again.

[eddiepicaso]

We as captain jack sparrow's crew we are on board.

[hekuran]

My Photoshop also lagged very much since the new updates. I found out that these settings on the move tool (v) make it laggy:

✅Show transform controls
❌Show layer bounds on hover
❌Expand layer group on click
❌Show hover bounds from Layers

I disabled the bottom three and just left the show transform controls ticked on. Now its alot faster!

Hope this helps if anyone still has lagging problems!

[ddphotograph]

breadcrumbs lol - amazing again, so helpful!

[JohanSchmidt]

Wonderful tips! Could you do something similar for LRC please?

[Chulagial]

Just what I needed at the moment as my pc is slow! Thanks Unmesh - great as usual!!

[selvamakephotography]

When i having 4gb ram laptop u r said 32gb required now i have assembled 32 gb ram with fastest ssd and Graphics card ..now im floating on clouds feel ❤❤❤

[codee_script]

Thanks it is really working much better than before.

[MukeshSharma-xjnh]

Can you please make a video about working with image sizes that are in feet? (Banners and Billboards)

[tanner.quintero]

Needed this, can a Lightroom one be made? Thanks.

[cecilhudgins]

Nice studio set, Unmesh. Hope you are doing well.

[shtroizn]

7:38 - Now THAT'S a serious PhotoShop glitch right there! 😅

[bjornareriksen]

Would really love a video like this for Premiere as well🙏😁

[RedwanahmedNahid-vm]

"Dear Graphic Designer, could you please make a tutorial video on how to create a lanyard mockup in Photoshop CC? Looking forward to your reply ❤"

[david]

Hi! Can you help me with one thing? I installed Photoshop and every other Adobe software on my biggest storage, and in the setting I modified the scratch disk to the same storage, but it still keeps doing it on my 250gb Windows partition and I don't know why. That's my only problem, basically because I have 32gb ram.😅

[ilhamramdani]

2TB of SSD, 200GB of RAM, Apple M2 Ultra Graphics Card. This is flexing with style 😅

[yuxiangzhou]

Hi there, Just wondering how to solve the issue that a picture opened in photoshop always appears darker. I’m using a Macbook Pro. Could you advise of it? thanks

[fitah]

6:55 ah the captain Jack sparrow version 😊

[Jdikmen]

Great tips. Now if I could just get PS to launch on my Mac Pro faster! Gets stuck on Hallide Bottlenecks every launch for the past 3 years. Takes about 45 seconds to launch on my $12, 000 Mac Pro, but only about 5 seconds on my little M3 MacBook Pro?

[Stilo]

I stopped updating it because with each update it got slower and used more CPU power.