Hacking Photoshop CS2
Chapter One
in this chapter
* Reducing launch time
* Optimizing preferences
* Making the most of
your RAM
* Choosing between
16-Bits/Channel and
8-Bits/Channel
* Streamlining file saving
* Faster switching
between applications
Optimizing
Performance
The hourglass in Windows and the watch and spinning beach ball in
Mac OS are icons that most people would prefer not to see when
working in Photoshop. Although eliminating them is not always possible,
you can go some way toward doing that. You can do this by managing
your resources wisely. To that end, it's worth spending a few minutes fine-tuning
Photoshop to squeeze the maximum performance out of it.
Reducing Startup Time
What better place to start fine-tuning than by reducing the time it takes to
launch Photoshop? The following sections show you several ways to launch
Photoshop more quickly.
Disabling Plug-ins
Each time you launch Photoshop, it loads plug-ins and presets into memory.
The problem is that you may or may not need many of the plug-ins during
the course of a session, but they eat into the memory allocation regardless.
So, how do you a ... read full excerpt from Hacking Photoshop CS2 ebook
