Setting Up CS4 Photoshop Preferences Pt 5 – Performance
The performance preferences in Photoshop CS4 are one of these things that you only need to setup once. Get it right and Photoshop runs smoothly and is a joy to use. Get it wrong! and Photoshop becomes a sluggish beast from which all your pixels will slowly be spat back out at you.View The Complete Photoshop CS4 Preferences Series >
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Thanks for this series of screencasts Stuart.
Although I’m still on CS3 the information is still of value. For some peculiar reason PS doesn’t hold my Preferences and resets itself to the default settings every so often (same with my Colour Settings). It’s a bit of a pest having to reset them, so the video tutorials are a good reminder of how they should be set.
Sounds like a corrupted preferences file to me. I will email you details on how to get it sorted.
Stu
Excellent. I’ve just been putting up with it rather than investigating how to correct it. I’ll look forward to hearing from you.
I’ve followed your email instructions and the prefs are all reset now. Thanks for the help!
Hi Stu. I have the same problem as Catherine where my preferences on history settings gets et back to 20 and I have to go out and reset them. I have PS3 w/ Windows xp
Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks!
Dave
I have decided to do a quick screencast on this that I will post over the weekend.
I have 4 gigs of RAM installed on my Windows computer (XP Pro). When attempting to adjust the available RAM under preferences PS4 only shows 1681 MB of available RAM.
Any idea where the rest of my RAM may have disappeared to? I have rebooted in both regular and safe mode and the low number persists.
Many thanks.
@Jim – Its a limit set by the OS rather than Photoshop and as far as I know you would need to use the likes of the 64bit Windows 7 or Vista 64bit. This solves the issue. But please anyone feel free to correct me as I am a little sketchy about Windows these days. Sorry I could not give you a quick fix answer.