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Running Photoshop CC on my PC and it's running really slow with this file. Any suggestions to maximize power? My Asus has an i7 processor with Nvidia 840m graphics. Photoshop was using the intel 4400 as the graphics processor but I changed it to the Nvidia through the nvidia control panel and it didn't change the performance. Which of those is best to use? The photoshop file is 24"x36" at 300 dpi and currently at 19gb file size. Is it normal for the computer to be running slow at that size?
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Yeah that's normal, that's massive..
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Unless your printing a football pitch.....
Don't use inches, use pixels.
Don't use inches, use pixels.
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If you want it to run faster, don't use photoshop files that are 19 gigabytes.
Even the most amazing computers are going to struggle with a file that big.
When you load a Photoshop file it is storing that info in your RAM,
So unless you have more than 19 gigs of ram it is going to lag. A lot.
Even the most amazing computers are going to struggle with a file that big.
When you load a Photoshop file it is storing that info in your RAM,
So unless you have more than 19 gigs of ram it is going to lag. A lot.
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The problem like he said before me is the file size, and the way photoshop stores active data in your ram, you need to cut that file down.
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File has to be in inches as I have to print it onto watercolor paper after, guess I'll just wait through it :/ it takes at least 10 minutes to save the .psb
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Zigs wrote File has to be in inches as I have to print it onto watercolor paper after, guess I'll just wait through it :/ it takes at least 10 minutes to save the .psb
If you absolutely have to have that size and dpi, try to reduce your layers as much as possible.
Do this by deleting any unused layers,
and merging all the visible layers.
That should leave with a file smaller than a gigabyte.
If that still doesn't work.
Then you should start using Adobe Illustrator so you can scale your work to any size you want, while keeping very small file sizes.
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Though I think scaling up that large would likely hinder the quality in some areas? I tried to be light on layers where I could. Here's the finished piece Forums/t=7503558/what-ive-been-up...-days.html
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Zigs wrote Though I think scaling up that large would likely hinder the quality in some areas? I tried to be light on layers where I could. Here's the finished piece Forums/t=7503558/what-ive-been-up...-days.html
No.
That is what illustrator is made for.
It uses vectors instead of pixels
so you can scale infinitely
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