You can manually purge the clipboard and/or the history if you’d like, to try and clean-up and reduce the memory usage. Setting Scratch Disks Purge the Clipboard or the History You’ll be able to set the settings for your scratch disks under the Scratch Disks panel. Then your computer’s drive can be set as the 2nd scratch disk. So with that, one potentially good way would be to have an external SSD disk with plenty of available space hooked into your computer in permanence and set as your 1st scratch disk.
Turning off the Export Clipboard option Save Recovery Information Less OftenĮvery so often Photoshop saves some recovery information on your working file so that if the software crashes it can pick back up where you left off. If you don’t tend to do that in your workflow, you can disable that clipboard exporting and save some memory.ĭo do that step, go to the General tab under the Photoshop preferences and uncheck the Export Clipboard option.
Disable Export Clipboardīy default, Photoshop keeps your clipboard full with data in case you want to copy something to another software. Now you’ll have to reconfigure Photoshop to your likings, but at least you’ll be working from a fresh place settings-wise. You’ll be presented with a dialog that will ask you if you want to delete the Photoshop Settings file. To do that, when starting Photoshop, hold the Shift + Option + Cmd (Windows: Shift + Alt + Ctrl) and then click to start Photoshop. This may help if you have a nagging suspicion that the slowness is due to preferences from old versions of Photoshop somehow conflicting with your current Photoshop install.
There’s an easy way to delete Photoshop’s settings file and therefore reset the settings to the default values.
In this post, I’ll try to distill some tricks to improve the performance of your Photoshop install and get you back to working at full efficiency.
So maybe you’ve been finding that things have been getting slower in Photoshop and that certain operations are now lagging. That’s especially true these days with most people upgrading their computer equipment less often than a few years ago. It can handle a lot, and sometimes that comes at the cost of computing resources. Adobe Photoshop is a very complicated, advanced and powerful piece of software.