Posted by Gary Yeoh on February 14, 2013 at 9:33 PM
Interesting read on how Photoshop has evolved over the past 2 decades. Now I can see why I get frustrated when PS (my version CS5) takes a long time to do some task like saving, cloning etc.
Posted by Craig Myers on February 15, 2013 at 3:10 AM
Very interesting analogy. The article provides some fascinating insights and/or ways of looking at the issues involved in "improving" PS. Thanks for sharing the link.
Very interesting article. PhotoShop, like MS Word, for example, suffer from feature bloat because these programs try to be all things to all people, i.e. 'the greatest good for the greatest number'. There are features in PS and Word that I'll likely never use, but it's good to have them there just in case the need arises.
"Now I can see why I get frustrated when PS (my version CS5) takes a long time to do some task like saving, cloning etc."
Photo Shop uses a compression algorithm when saving PSD files and it takes a while to do this. Tiff files save much more quickly, but are larger files, so it's kind of a trade off.
If you are working on large files and operations (other than saving) are taking a long time, or you're experience lags, it's possible that you need more RAM in your machine. If your RAM usage is high, PS will use its scratch disk, which slows things down. At the bottom left side of the PS window (Status Bar), click the little arrow and set it to 'Efficiency'. If the efficiency drops below 100%, you're hitting the scratch disk.
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Posted by Gary Yeoh on February 15, 2013 at 7:09 PM
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Thanks for the head up on the efficency function - annother example of functions on PS that I don't even know is there.
Posted by Ed Cordes on February 15, 2013 at 11:42 PM
While I get frustrated with the every two year upgrades and the new processes I have to learn and the extra RAM used, it is still an amazing application that is mind boggling in its capabilities.
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4 repliesVery interesting article. PhotoShop, like MS Word, for example, suffer from feature bloat because these programs try to be all things to all people, i.e. 'the greatest good for the greatest number'. There are features in PS and Word that I'll likely never use, but it's good to have them there just in case the need arises.
Photo Shop uses a compression algorithm when saving PSD files and it takes a while to do this. Tiff files save much more quickly, but are larger files, so it's kind of a trade off.
If you are working on large files and operations (other than saving) are taking a long time, or you're experience lags, it's possible that you need more RAM in your machine. If your RAM usage is high, PS will use its scratch disk, which slows things down. At the bottom left side of the PS window (Status Bar), click the little arrow and set it to 'Efficiency'. If the efficiency drops below 100%, you're hitting the scratch disk.
--P
Thanks for the head up on the efficency function - annother example of functions on PS that I don't even know is there.