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• Problem of RAM in Photoshop CC 2015

  I have laptop: 4-core i7 2.5 GHz, 12 GB of DDR3 memory. For some strange reason, Photoshop use only 4 GB of total memory and an error about the lack of RAM when I'm working with some great features. What could be the problem?

  It seems that the 32-bit version of Windows has been installed. Since 2014 CC, 32-bit version or 64-bit is installed according to your version of Windows.

  What version of Windows is installed on your system? 64 bit or 32 bit?

• Slow with many layers of Photoshop

  Hello!
  
  

  I do experience notable in Photoshop slowdowns when working with large files (more than 4000 x 4000 pixels) with many layers.
  I tried different things, like tinkering with performance options in Photoshop, brush settings and global PC settings.
  Nothing seems to help.
  
  When you start with a new file (say 4000 x 4000 pixels), everything seems fine. As I work, I create layers more. When the number of layer approaches 80 ~ 100 I start noticing significant slowdowns. The Brush tool becomes lag (delay adds boring), zooming and paning is smoother and everything becomes overall slower.
  
  When checking in the Manager of tasks, either the graphics card or RAM or processor is fully utilized. Total CPU usage is usually only 20 ~ 25%, 50% of RAM but Photoshop is lagging as hell.

  I think I have a quite decent PC. (at least for this type of workload..)
  My PC current specifications are:
  
  CPU: i7 6700 k @ 4, 0GHz
  RAM: DDR4, 16GB, 3000 Mhz
  GPU: GTX 980 Ti
  2xSSD RAID-0 for the main system partition (Photoshop "scratch disks" can also be programmed to do this).
  Windows 10

  
  So, what could be the problem? Any ideas I could try?
  Or should I rethink my working habits of several layers?

  Update!
  After more inexperienced, seems to have finally found the culprit that is causing slowdowns.
  Layer blending Options. Especially those that generate their own semi-transparent area.

  I can reproduce this in the layer file 10:
  (1) create a new file with the dimensions of the 6000 x 6000 pixels (or something bigger) with no background
  (2) draw something
  (3) add option 'outer glow' merger with significant RADIUS
  (4) add a few more layers, repeat steps 2 and 3
  (5) create new layer below all other layers and try to get something in the area where overlap the effects of "outer glow".

  So the main takeaway:
  Be careful adding mixture of options to layers and rasterization them where possible.

• When I change the image to indexed in RGB mode and then try and save it locks Photoshop completely.

  I'm on Windows 10 with 16 GB of ram and Photoshop CS6.  I have also updated my video driver from the manufacturer and you have run all windows updates.

  You have installed all updates of Photoshop CS6?

• Needing to make a larger banner and I have problems with Photoshop is very slow with the answer.

  Windows 10

  32 GB of RAM

  1 TB SSD for essential motivation

  System 64-bit

  AMD Radeon HD 7800 series graphics processor

  The banner, I'm getting is need to be 8ftx4ft. When I add more photos of her, the answer in Photoshop becomes slower I have most of the lap ram to Photoshop the project uses about 10 GB of ram! Performance its set to 80% of all the ideas on this acceleration or process to do?  It's hard doing a project and answering super slow and not be able to do great thing.

  I have not tried, but it can be useful a go.

  1 open Task Manager)

  (2) set the display to update slowly or paused

  (3) find the process photoshop.exe (Photoshop must be open)

  (4) make right click the process and set the priority of Normal to high or maybe even in real time

  This should ask Photoshop receive more CPU time.

  

• the RAM reset

  I installed more RAM in an iMac, reclassification of 4 GB to 16 GB: the Mac recognizes the RAM with no problems (in all) and but PhotoShop (preferences, Performance) said I still only 3072 MB of available space and some files don't load, giving the error not enough RAM.

  How can I get Photoshop to recognize the new RAM?

  iMac, OSX 10.8.6

  Photoshop CS4 v11.0.2

  Performance set to use 2480Mb (80%): change to 100% makes no difference.

  A file that does not is a .tiff 144,5 MB

  On the Mac platform, CS4 was still a 32-bit application, so he treats up to 4 GB memory (and others from that reserved for the OS, so net 3 GB). On CS4 Windows was the first native 64-bit version.

  Simply upgrade to take advantage of this extra RAM in Photoshop. These days that means signing up for CC, I don't know if CS6 is always sold. But there is a great deal in terms of photography (PS + Lr) for only $10 per month. It's a godsend to any standard.

• Photoshop starts late, all of a sudden, all a few seconds... Why does that happen?

  Hi all

  I'm at school, work on a 24 "iMac since 2009 with the following specifications, Yosemite 10.10.2; ATI Radeon 4850 with 512 MB of VRAM; Intel Core 2 Duo 3.06 GHz; 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3 RAM and Photoshop CS6 with the latest updates.

  Everytime when I open Photoshop, I can get some shots with my brushes, and all of a sudden it freezes for a few seconds, all mess up and when I want to go back it does not key strokes, as if I had no keyboard attached to the Mac or if she would be completely frozen... This only happens in CS6 PS for some strange reason.

  I tried this on new documents and older as well, big and small, its always the same, no matter what brush I use.

  Sampling processes 377 3 seconds with 1 millisecond of execution time between samples

  Sampling conducted, symbols of treatment...

  I also checked the activity Manager when this happens, usually Photoshop takes me like 20% of the CPU, but when he lags behind it goes up to about 85 percent, maybe someone of you can read what is happening here, I'm not a technician myself, so I guess I don't understand one much of what its saying here...

  Well well, thanks in advance!

  Tour of the GPU acceleration in the performance preference. Your system is not the most powerful and these hiccups occur probably due to graphics buffers is completed and the system tries to compensate for...

  Mylenium

• PhotoShops very slow gradient tool!

  Hello!

  I used the gradient tool to make an art of channel for my Youtube Channel, and it is really slow!

  Is there anyway that I can fix this? I tried to at least 60% of ram for photoshop and still nothing. I don't know many options for photoshop.

  I hope someone can help.

  Thank you!

  For this small image, the gradient tool would be instant.

  Make sure that you have specified 2560 x 1440 PIXELS and not inches by mistake.

• After loading photoshop & AI, System begin to react slowly

  Adobe Systems - Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design Standard

  PC: LENOVO 7303 AM 3 ThinkCentre M58e

  OS: Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3

  Install language: English (United States)

  Locale: Chinese (Taiwan)

  CPU: Intel Core2 Duo processor 2.80 GHz

  Memory: 2014 megabytes of installed memory usable

  HARD drive: c: (NTFS on drive 0) *	210,96 GB 95.39 GB free
  d: (NTFS on drive 0)	105.92 GB 105,08 GB free

  Chipset: I haventel (R) G41 Express Chipset [graphics card]

  From the Task Manager, after loading about 400 MB psd in PHOTOSHOP file.

  It shows the available memory 1.5 GB and about 500 MB page file.

  The remaining memory is used for Amnesty International and Outlook.

  The system starts responding slowly.

  How can I solve this problem?

  Hello, if two gourmet programs in memory on a machine with 2 GB of RAM, I would say that is expected.

  If the weight of 400 MB PSD file on the hard drive, be aware that it is compressed, so a tripling of the memory usage is expected.

  You are in a catch 22: If you allocate less RAM for Photoshop, to release some system, you will need to use the drive working, but given that you seem to have that one disk hard, but cut, it will be competing with other operations on disk.

  Get more RAM seems the best solution for your problem... BUT you could have only a 32-bit Windows version which will not be able to allocate more memory.

• Photoshop CS5 gets body more slowly after a while

  The subject in fact. In half an hour of intensive use the programm gets slower and finally a simple as picking a color with a pipette takes seconds. Allows you to start the program, but is not very uncomfortable workflow to restart PS all the 30 min. I have the PS CS2 installed and it works perfectly as well as other applications like Illustrator, Flash or InDesign CS5 resources. And Yes, have read all the formal and informal advice on optimizing PS performance and so on. Do not know what system information is relevant to the problem, so here are a few:

  Adobe Photoshop Version: 12.0.4 (12.0.4x20110407 [20110407.r.1265 2011/04 / 07:02:00:00 cutoff; r branch]) x 64

  Operating system: Windows 7 64-bit

  Version: 6.1 Service Pack 1

  System architecture: Intel CPU Family: 6, model: 15, Stepping: 7 with MMX, entire SSE, SSE, SSE2, SSE3 FP

  Number of physical processors: 8

  Processor speed: 1995 MHz

  Built-in memory: 8190 MB

  Memory available to Photoshop: 7203 MB

  Memory used by Photoshop: 95%

  Tile image size: 1028K

  Image cache level: 6

  Display: 2

  View the limits: = top: 0, left: 0, bottom: 1200, right: 1600

  Display: 1

  View the limits: = top: 0, left: 1600, bottom: 1200, right: 3200

  Video card: 1

  Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS

  Driver version: 8.17.12.8562

  Driver date: 20111015000000.000000 - 000

  Video mode: 1600 x 1200 x 4294967296 colors

  Legend of the video card: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS

  Video card memory: 320 MB

  Zero Photoshop has async I/O active

  Scratch the volumes:

  F:\, 1, 82 t, 1, 16 free t

  C:\, 111, 7 G, 47, 1 G free

  Plug-ins that could not load: NONE

  Install TWAIN devices: NONE

  No third-party plugins installed.

  Thank you.

  It seems that you are starving the computer using 95% of the RAM for Photoshop.

  Past debates have shown, you should have at least 2 GB for the computer.

  So in your case PS should use no more than 5,200 concerts.

• Photoshop CS5 eating my system

  I'm sorry for using this broad term, but it's the first thing that came to me in my head. I can't really understand what went wrong... One day, that all went well, now everything is just completely off the charts... Of course, this is probably an error to the user (me)... Here is what happened up to this point. I found a few old photos and I scan them in and I didn't notice what PPI I to, when I realized it was taking entirely too long I looked back and the PPI has been set at 2400... I stopped as soon as I could, but feel that day, it seems that Photoshop just wants to take up all available resources... I use usually 2 "scratch disks", my main C: drive and one alternate, I know the golden rule of not using the C: drive, but I usually have a lot of space for Photoshop work... I have made sense then work out of C drive and put it on my drive F completely... Since that time, it took almost 35-50 GB of my F drive and he is still using 40-50% of my physical on something as memory easy to crop a small photo of 10 megapixels... I've never had a problem like this in the past... This is why I find this so confusing... I can't even finish the harvest of photography that I am doing it looks he would just still holding... Any help would be apprciated and thank you for your time... Here are my specs...

  Intel Core 2 Duo

  Windows 7 64-bit Enterprise Edition

  GeForce 9800 GS 512 MB

  4 GB OF RAM

  Photoshop CS5 (I prefer 32-bit running because I run a lot of plugins, and as I said, none of this has changed)

  Chris said as he is and takes the (very valid) point that if you want to whiz by the edition, have more resources on your computer is a good idea.

  Photoshop uses upward for the amount of memory you allow it.  He since its memory management "resumes" of Windows, because Adobe has found that it is more efficient to do so.  Maybe it's that your choice of limits is not one that fits your system.

  In this case, you did something that caused Photoshop to allocate the maximum of RAM, and I think that everything just works well with Photoshop using its max memory amount and the type of tasks that your system or other applications are made in the background - you have a few choices:

  1. reconfigure Photoshop - for example, reduce the max RAM, you allow it to use - and we hope that you can divide system resources should avoid this beating.

  2. reconfigure your system to keep it from getting so substantive stuff (for example, to disable indexing).

  3. do fewer things at the same time - for example, do not work as many applications when you try to run Photoshop.  Also through all the stuff that you have installed and running with a tool like AutoRuns from SysInternals to ensure that you have not loaded it upward with junkware.

  4. fill your computer with resources more - for example, add another 4 GB or 8 GB of RAM.  He is listed as item 4 here, but maybe the most important, that you can do to help in such a situation.

  5. use the 64-bit version of Photoshop for important tasks.

  You think that your computer is well endowed, but in all sincerity today a 2 core laptop with 4 GB of RAM and an old 512 MB video card is a pretty mimimal PC for plowing through Photoshop work.  I use a 16 GB system 8 cores with a 1 GB video card, and there are still some things I wait.

  3000Photos wrote:

  Since then, it took almost 35-50 GB of my F drive and he is still using 40 to 50% of physical memory on something as simple as crop a little 10 megapixel camera... I've never had a problem like this in the past...

  I think your memory is wrong.  You use, Photoshop has always expanded its use of the memory until the limit max, you give.

  And Photoshop is not supposed to use scratch space permanently, but sometimes it can be seen to leave temporary files around...  Check the folder root of your F: drive and see if there are files Photoshop Temp * .  If so and Photoshop is not running, you can remove them.

  -Christmas

• Manager stock Photoshop CS5 does not

  I tried port CS4 CS5 panels. The following code compiles without error. It runs without raising a run-time error. However, each call to the Manager action causes the stop of the code. Comment the action handler code and everything works.

  I also noticed that the mx. Alert does not open an alert dialog. It causes the same question. The code ends.

  This code works perfectly with CS4.

  Any suggestions would be welcome!

  Mitch

  private function makeLuminosityEdgeMask(maskWidth:int):void {}

  try {

  var docRef: Document = Photoshop.app.activeDocument;

  var docRef2: Document = docRef.duplicate ( "Duplicate" );

  docName var : String = docRef.name;

  docRef2.bitsPerChannel = BitsPerChannelType.EIGHT;

  docRef2.flatten ();

  docRef2.changeMode (ChangeMode.GRAYSCALE);

  var myArtLayer: ArtLayer = ArtLayer (docRef2.activeLayer);

  Blur photos prior to generation of mask for large and medium width masks

  switch (maskWidth) {}

  case maskWidthMediumEdges: myArtLayer.applyGaussianBlur (1.0); breaking ;

  case maskWidthWideEdges: myArtLayer.applyGaussianBlur (3.0); breaking ;

  default : breaking ;

  }

  Run the filter to find edges

  var idFndE:Number = Photoshop.app.charIDToTypeID ( 'FndE' );

  Photoshop.app.executeAction (idFndE,

  null , DialogModes.NO);

  Reverse the result of the filter to find edges

  myArtLayer.invert ();

  Apply the curves adjustment

  var curvesShape:Array = new Table (new Array (20.0),)

  new Array (60,120).

  new Array (90,180).

  new Array (145,225).

  new Array (255,255));

  myArtLayer.adjustCurves (curvesShape);

  Maximum filter

  switch (maskWidth) {}

  case maskWidthMediumEdges: myArtLayer.applyMaximum (1.0); breaking ;

  case maskWidthWideEdges: myArtLayer.applyMaximum (2.0); breaking ;

  default : breaking ;

  }

  Median filter

  switch (maskWidth) {}

  case maskWidthMediumEdges: myArtLayer.applyMedianNoise (1.0); breaking ;

  case maskWidthWideEdges: myArtLayer.applyMedianNoise (2.0); breaking ;

  default : breaking ;

  }

  Apply the Gaussian blur

  switch (maskWidth) {}

  case maskWidthExtraNarrowEdges: myArtLayer.applyGaussianBlur (0.1); breaking ;

  case maskWidthNarrowEdges: myArtLayer.applyGaussianBlur (0.5); breaking ;

  case maskWidthMediumEdges: myArtLayer.applyGaussianBlur (1.0); breaking ;

  case maskWidthWideEdges: myArtLayer.applyGaussianBlur (2.0); breaking ;

  default : breaking ;

  }

  Apply Autolevels to master

  myArtLayer.autoLevels ();

  Rename and dual channel

  var channelName:String;

  switch (maskWidth) {}

  case maskWidthExtraNarrowEdges: channelName = maskLuminosityEdgesExtraNarrow; breaking ;

  case maskWidthNarrowEdges: channelName = maskLuminosityEdgesNarrow; breaking ;

  case maskWidthMediumEdges: channelName = maskLuminosityEdgesMedium; breaking ;

  case maskWidthWideEdges: channelName = maskLuminosityEdgesWide; breaking ;

  }

  In double channel to the original document

  var idDplc:int = Photoshop.app.charIDToTypeID ( 'Dplc' );

  var desc2:ActionDescriptor = new ActionDescriptor();

  var idnull:int = Photoshop.app.charIDToTypeID ( , "null" , );

  var Ref1:ActionReference = new ActionReference();

  var idChnl:int = Photoshop.app.charIDToTypeID ( , "One" , );

  var idOrdn:int = Photoshop.app.charIDToTypeID ( 'Ordn' );

  var idTrgt:int = Photoshop.app.charIDToTypeID ( 'Trgt' );

  Ref1.putEnumerated (idChnl, idOrdn, idTrgt);

  desc2.putReference (idnull, ref1);

  var idT:int = Photoshop.app.charIDToTypeID ( , "T" , );

  var ref2:ActionReference = new ActionReference();

  var idDcmn:int = Photoshop.app.charIDToTypeID ( 'Dcmn' );

  ref2.putName (idDcmn, Nomdoc);

  desc2.putReference (idT, ref2);

  var idNm:int = Photoshop.app.charIDToTypeID ( , "Nm" , );

  desc2.putString (idNm, channelName);

  Photoshop.app.executeAction (idDplc, desc2, DialogModes.NO);

  Close duplicate

  docRef2.close (SaveOptions.DONOTSAVECHANGES);

  Release RAM;

  Photoshop.app.purge (PurgeTarget.ALLCACHES);

  Refresh the app

  Photoshop.app.Refresh ();

  Pallet of food chains

  docRef.activeChannels = docRef.componentChannels;

  }

  catch (error: Error) {}

  Alert.Show)

  "Error in makeLuminosityEdgeMask():" " + error.message);

  }

  }

  I can't comment on the part concerning the Director of the action, but to use Alert, you can use it as well:

  Alert.Show ("text", "title", Alert.OK, Sprite (mx.core.Application.application));

  It is documented in the CS SDK Programmer's Guide. (in the section on customizing the User Interface of Extension)

  Substances

• Error: Not enough RAM to open small files

  MacBook5, 2

  Macintosh OSX 10.6.3

  4 GB OF RAM

  NVIDIA GeForce 9400M - 256 Mo

  Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended (11.0.1)

  I am TIFF of Maya files which are 11880 x 3400 pixel.  The ranges of between 100-160 MB file size.  Whenever I try to open one of these images in Photoshop, I get this error: "Could not complete the command open because there is not enough RAM."

  I just ran Adobe Update and I have all the updates.

  I deleted my Photoshop preferences and restarted Photoshop.

  I have my drive from Scratch on an internal SSD drive to 30 GB of free space.

  I have 3000 MB of RAM to Photoshop.

  Despite all this, I always get the error "Could not complete the command open because there is not enough RAM" every time that I try to open the pictures made out of Maya.

  The images of Maya are normal TIFF 8-bit with alpha channel, or a channel depth.  I can open them with success in After Effects, but this is useless for me.  I need to edit them individually in Photoshop.

  Photoshop error is clearly not due to the size of the file.  I HDR panoramas with superior to 11880 x 3400 dimensions ranging up to 1 GB in size of the file that I can open and work on in Photoshop without any problem.

  Why Photoshop doesn't play well with these TIFF images?

  I received another complaint about it and looked at a sample file.    Maya apparently written the TIFF file as a large compressed tile (against the suggestions of the TIFF specification.).    If this tile is greater think Photoshop so that he may reasonably, safely allocate a buffer, it will get an out of memory error.

  The big problem is: there is no update "reasonable buffer" size for 64-bit.

  I am testing a fix for this now.

  But there's always bigger that Photoshop can read and Maya tiles needs to fix their code TIFF for use strips or tiles to avoid excessive buffer sizes.

• Photoshop CS3 for Windows very slow

  I use Photoshop CS3 on a Windows Vista Help. He got a quick bicoeur processor. In the last couple months Photoshop started to run so slowly that it is virtually unusable. I have reset the preferences again. I brought up the RAM in the PC from 2 GB to 4, and offered no relief. I allocated more RAM to Photoshop. Nothing did.

  I reached a breaking point today and spent a whole day of troubleshooting. I have concluded that it is a problem with the installation of Photoshop, asking way too much space to work. For example, when I open a 2.5meg file on this computer, it requires 3.6 GB of disk space to work. When I opened the same exact file on another machine, you must only 95 megs of disk space to work. I more than 4 GB of available disk space for the use of disk work on the affected machine, but the fact that it is done all this reading and writing to a disk hard kill the performance of the application.

  Of course, there is a problem with the installation of the software. I tried to reinstall, and it does not help.

  I called Adobe tech support line, and they don't touch this questions. They wanted me $39 to even hear what the problem was and said that they were not sure they could solve any problem - load especially one like that - after accepting the payment. (So, why would I give them a credit card number?) They suggested I post here instead. (Uh, great support strategy, huh?) I'm a little frustrated, if you can't tell...)

  OK, so off the complainant now. Ideas for what I can do - short clamping this PC and buy a new one to reinstall on?

  OliverSSSSS wrote:

  Yet one thing I might add that could lead a thought for someone. When I launch Photoshop, the boot process hangs for about 2 minutes on the stage where the application is 'reading preferences.'

  I assume that already reset you your preferences as described in the FAQ.  http://forums.Adobe.com/thread/375776?TSTART=0

  You must physically delete (or rename) the preference files or, if you use the Alt, Ctrl, and shift, don't forget you get a confirmation dialog box.

  This resets all settings in Photoshop default.

  Another source of slowness can be no local printers or on the "recent" list files that are on the network drives.

• Recommendations for a beginner building a gaming pc?

  I'm looking to build my own gaming pc and have selected the following:

  Case: iBUYPOWER ARC 647 Gaming Chassis

  Card mother + processor: processor Intel Core i7-3770 (4 x 3.40 GHz), BYO Bundle

  RAM: 16GB G.Skill Ripjaws

  Hard drive: 500 GB 7200 RPM hard drive

  Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 2 GB GDDR3 PCI Express 3.0 graphics card

  Hard drive: 24 X DVD +/-RW DL Optical Drive

  operating system: Microsoft Windows 7 Professional, 64-Bit Edition

  First question: this combination of work?

  Second question: the recommendations/changes?

  Third and last question: do I need anything else? (I already have a monitor, keyboard, mouse and speakers).

  Any help is appreciated

  Unless money is no object, and you want a profitable gaming PC, do not think that 'CPU' and a lot of RAM fantasy, think "video card" since it is the top priority for the games. Also think ahead and think of versatility of the platform because at some point (often with players), you'll want to change this or that.

  Think that bang for your buck!... and I don't see it in the choice of your combo and map.

  A mid range CPU price is a lot. Spend over $ $300 on an i7 CPU is a waste of money, one player, unless you have the high-end card to go with it. Get the best card you can afford and a high quality POWER supply (corsair is very good) remarks 650w as him more you'll need, unless for muti-screens and maps high power binoculars.

  Save money on the ram 1333 standard, you will not see any difference in ram fancy. Not more than 8GB will be lost and never used, regardless of the game or the PC software you can use. I never needed more than 8 GB (for the most part not more than 4/6 GB) and outside of the game, I use a lot of ram heavy Photoshop).

  Personally I would go an AMD platform any day for the game, because you'll save a bundle a decent multi-socket AM3 / AM2 + / AM2 board and CPU AMD Phenom x 4 around 2.8 to 3.4 GHz combo, or if you want to spend a little more, the new FX range CPU a combo of Council AM3 +.  You will be miles ahead $ wise, now and in the future.

  Try this for the price and performance of killer game next to a platform of intel similar price:

  CPU: AMD FX 6300 Black Edition
  Motherboard: Gigabyte a 970-DS3P (socket AM3 +)
  Card: ASUS Radeon R9 270 X
  RAM: 8 GB DDR3 1333 mhz (2x4gb)
  PSU: Corsair CS650M (try to get a box without power SUPPLY, because they usually poor quality PSUS in comparison).

  Combining perfectly and for its money!

  Of course any that in the intensive use of the PC multi-threading (video editing), and do not play, I'd go intel Sandy Bridge every time if I could afford it.