We have at our fingertips a multitude of programs dedicated to these specific tasks that will solve the situation if we need to edit an image. We can opt for complex programs that we install on our computer, or use some much simpler but equally effective web applications.
With everything and with this, there is no doubt that the main benchmark in this software sector is Adobe Photoshop. Here we find an application perfectly capable of meeting the needs of both domestic and professional users. Obviously, to get the most out of this program that we are talking about, we must have in-depth knowledge of it. But it is also important to know that it presents us with almost automatic basic functions for the less experienced.
There is no doubt that this is a very powerful application and therefore we could say that it is demanding in terms of our PC’s hardware. This is something that is especially evident in the most recent versions that the giant Adobe has released and made available to everyone. This means that, if we use a device limited in terms of its specifications or old, we could have some performance problems. The same could happen with a more modern PC but that we have not optimized properly.
Fix Photoshop performance issues
And it is that the circumstance can occur, something more common than at first we would like, that this photo editing program works very slowly. Also, on occasions many users have reported that the application takes longer and longer to start working. Basically this means that the user experience with a program as powerful as Adobe Photoshop is not the best for external reasons. However, it is something that we can quickly solve through the program’s own configuration, as we are going to show you.
And this is a program that has an integrated function that allows us to customize the use of computer resources to optimize its operation. In order to customize this feature that we are talking about, the first thing we do is open the application as such and access its configuration window. This can be found in the Edit / Preferences / General menu option. Thus we are going to find a window with a multitude of categories and configurable parameters for the program. In this specific case we are interested in the entry called Performance, which we click on.
To give you an idea of the change that we are going to make, in this window we find a sliding bar in which we can establish the RAM of the computer that we want to assign to Photoshop. This means that, if we have found performance and execution problems in the software, perhaps we should expand the RAM for the program. In this way we make it work more fluidly and run faster when we start it up.
In the same way, in this same section we have the possibility of activating the use of the computer’s GPU for Photoshop. This is something that will also be very helpful to us on most occasions.
