When you are given a specific task to handle in Photoshop, it is vital for your sanity and patience that Photoshop archives what it was meant to do in a reasonable amount of time. However, sometimes there are factors that prevent this from happening. One of the most common being that the computer needs a hardware upgrade. This is the best solution, but can also be expensive or downright impossible depending on the hardware.  In this blog post I will describe the different methods of improving performance on a PC.

Please note, this is after you’ve made sure that any background processes running behind Photoshop have been deactivated.

One of the solutions could be that your images resolution is too high. If this is the case, you need to resize the image before you use filters, adjustments, or effects. In order to do this, click the image tab> Image size. In the image size settings you can lower the resolution to fit what medium your image is being designed for. If this doesn’t work, try the method below.

One of the ways in which you can improve Photoshop’s performance is by increasing the amount of RAM It can take. The way you can do this is by pressing Ctrl + K, or going into the Edit tab>Preferences>Performance. When you’re in the Performance settings, adjust the blue bar in the memory usage section. Then, experiment with trial and error until you find the performance consistency you want. This may be different depending on your PCs specs.

Most of the time when I experience this problem, it’s often as a result of the resolution being too high, so this is the problem I look into fixing first. However, if the problem persists when the resolution is changed; go with the second option. Thanks for reading! Which method do you look to when Photoshop runs slowly?