Photoshop CS3 Lags or Stalls Frequently

Photoshop and Illustrator CS3 just stop working every five to ten minutes for periods of about 10 to 20 seconds. Photoshop palettes and windows all go blank if I click anywhere in the application space during these brownouts. Sometimes the entire system stops responding to the point all I can do is move the mouse around pointlessly.
After it does whatever it is doing the app suddenly snaps back to life and anything else I may have clicked in any application in the meantime instantly responds allsuddenlyatthesametime in a flurry of dialogs and actions. Often when Photoshop comes back the palettes have no titles and seem to have been corrupted and I have to restart the app.
It doesn't seem to matter what I'm doing though I'm not entirely sure about that. Seems that it happens most when I try to use the brush tool or apply changes to text, but that may just be because I use those tools more than others.
I did a search on this and based on earlier solutions I will add that the only printer I have installed is the local Adobe PDF driver and I am not using a Logitech mouse. I've done a fresh install on a fresh XP SP3 and run the updater.. the problems are all the same. Anybody know any other conflicts?

try turning off font previews in the preferences and see if that helps.
and/or, if you're using vista, make sure the aero interface is ON.

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I thought Photoshop CS3 WAS "optimized" to fully use the possibilities of the Intel chip, but it's more and more looking like an Adobe FAIL to me…
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Remy,
1. You really ought to have more memory. Your iMac will support up to 6GB (yes, 6). See http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World%20Computing/6400DDR2S6GP/ for $168 USD + shipping. My wife has the same machine with 6GBytes in it.
2. Restart your machine and launch Activity Monitor. Click on the System Memory tab in the lower part of the window and observe memory usage as you launch your normal programs along with Photoshop. Page outs is a very important metric. If it stays at zero (mine is at zero after 3 days and I have 6GB on my iMac 7,1 and I have both Photoshop and Illustrator running) then you have enough memory.
3. The other thing to do with Activity Monitor is to click on the Real Memory column and see how much each program is consuming. Maybe you have a program you don't know about that is a memory hog. For example, Firefox suffers from memory leaks and can grow quite large over the course of a week. Photoshop also is not good about returning memory to the pool. I just looked at my memory usage and Photoshop was consuming 417MB even though I have not used it since yesterday. Quitting and relaunching PS sent the memory usage down to 88MB.
4. Both my wife and I run Photoshop CS3 every day (typical file size is 3-6MB) and it is very fast for us.
,dave

Photoshop cs3 + windows vista + intuos 3

I am working with "photoshop cs3" "windows ultimate vista" and an "wacom intuos 3" tablet and I experience heavy lags while drawing like the brush-strokes don't quite follow my moves, and I have to wait for them to catch up.
When I open a large file and I try to apply the first brush stroke on my drawing the cursor screen disappears for a while and photoshop is not responding.
Then Photoshop comes back so the cursor and I can start to work. But as soon as I drag the page using the little Hand tool photoshop stops responding again for few more seconds and when it restarts I can hardly control the direction of my new brush strokes.
Apparently in order to restart the only remedy I found (by chance) is by toggling the layer visibility status (change a layer from visible to not and back to visible again). After this exercise I can draw in photoshop again! But of course same problems again as soon as I will use the hand tool and move on the screen again!!!
Any idea about what could be behind my problems!?
What should I check?
(These problems started after last week immediately after re installation of vista on my machine, I never had this problem with vista photoshop and intuos on that same machine before!)
Thanks
Mario

I have CS3, Vista Ultimate and an Intuos3 tablet. No lags or delays now. But I used to have them and many were reported on the Wacom Users Forum when Vista first came out. I can't remember now what the fix was - have a look on the Wacom Users' Forum. If you had it running ok on your previous Vista installation some software setting must have changed in the new installation. Things that may help are:
get latest Nvidia vga card drivers (if you have an Nvidia card); get the latest Wacom driver; Logitech Setpoint software conflicting - the latest is ok for me; disable/switch off the Vista Pen and Input device.
Sorry, I can't remember the fixes but they should be available if you dig around in the Wacom Users' Forum.
David

Photoshop CS3 left-click is extremely slow/delayed

I recently purchased a new 2011 Macbook Pro 15", 2.2ghz, 4GB ram. I'm running photoshop CS3, and I'm experiencing a very odd problem.
Specifically in my layers palette, and my layer styles dialog, photoshop lags for about 3-5 seconds when left-clicking things. For example, I can right click a layer, and go to 'blending options', and the layer styles dialog comes up almost immediately. However, when I double-click the right end of the layer (the way I typically bring up layer styles), it takes about 5-6 seconds for the dialog to appear. Similarly, if I use keyboard shortcuts to navigate through selecting different layers, the change in layer selection happens almost immediately. However, when I simply left-click a layer, it takes about 4-5 seconds for the layer to be selected. It almost acts as if I'm holding the mouse button down for those few seconds. This same delay also happens while selecting various layer styles within the layer styles dialog, as well as selecting a color from the color picker, which makes it almost impossible for me to pick a color, because if I've moved my mouse within those 4-5 seconds as it's lagging, the color will change to wherever my mouse is currently.
I'm not experiencing this problem anywhere else on my computer, nor anywhere else within Photoshop. Clicking all other tools and options works just fine. Photoshop is set to use 65% of my system memory, and it's set to use 2 cache levels. I've tried disabling 'tap clicking' on my trackpad, as well as use a standard usb mouse - nothing has fixed it. This problem is experienced no matter how large or small the document I am working on is.
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Are Photoshop and OS fully updated and have you performed the usual trouble-shooting routines (trashing prefs by keeping command-alt-shift pressed while starting Photoshop, 3rd party plug-ins deactivation, system maintenance, font validation, etc.)?

Photoshop CS3 white screen / freeze

had CS3 for over a year or so(legit on work computer) and this just started happening this week. at start up and/or after a few minutes in photoshop CS3 it freezes, goes to white screen and hangs and becomes useless. it starts off lagging like if i turn layers on and off takes a moment to change, if i mask something marquee slowly moves or stops moving altogether, flip between different workspaces, open and close files large and small, any of those it freezes and dies having to force it to close. i have photoshop CS2 also installed and it runs fine. everything else CS3 works (illustrator, acrobat etc.)
things ive tried:
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3. cache purge
4. yelling
5. change scratch disk: i have 3 internal drives
6. memory test
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I'd remove them. if they're critical, only put them back when you need them in another app, or get a font manager.
photoshop is very persnickety about fonts and will have problems with a font that's not exactly right, where another app might overlook an internal font error. my guess is there IS something funny about those fonts, but the other apps ignore the parts that are "broken".

Antivirus interfering with Photoshop CS3

For some time now I have been suffering from frequent lockups of my computer when trying to run Photoshop CS3 and or Bridge CS3. I have traced the problem to my antivirus program (Steganos AV2009 aka AVG8). If I disable the Resident Shield component of this software, I am able to run Photoshop. However the software (and Windows) nags me that I should no be doing this.
I have noted that your technical advice for troubleshooting Photoshop problems includes turning off such resident file and disk activity scanners. However I am worried about using my computer without antivirus protection.
My question is, which, if any, current AV programs are known not to interfere with Photoshop?
Heuristic AV scanners are becoming more commonplace, and I suspect that these are the ones that are likely to cause problems. They are also notorious resource hoggers.

I have to say that there is a lot in what Mark Terry says. I have had AV software on my computer since the year dot. It has never caught a single virus (or trojan or worm) in situ, but, over the years, it has caused more hassle than I think any virus might ever have caused. Every AV program I have subscribed to has self-destructed in the end, requiring that it be removed and ditched.
Much AV software is becoming too sophisticated for its own good. Complex software, especially when operating in highly varied environments and subject to continuous frequent updates is bound to malfunction sooner or later. However what I was asking about was whether there is anything reliable, simple and with a small resource footprint, that is better than nothing, and which does not interfere with Photoshop.
I do agree that a decent firewall is essential and that is taken care of. But is it sufficient, given the quantity of stuff that one routinely downloads these days?
All I want is a decent lock on the door and something to warn of and deal with intruders.
Robert Levine's remark is pertinent. There are differences between free and paid-for AVG8, but I would have thought that the in-memory scanning engine would be the same. However I can only report on my own experience. Perhaps there is something peculiar (broken?) in my system that makes it susceptible...?? AVG8 Resident Shield uses a significant amount of CPU resources. (I can see this with Process Explorer.) and my machine is a single-core Pentium 4. Even with hyper-threading, I do not think that Photoshop likes the competition.
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Photoshop CS3 issues:

Hello,
I was wondering if someone else has been experiencing the same problems I have been having since I upgraded my Mac to Snow Leopard (10.6.1). CS3 has been extremely unpredictable especially Photoshop, because it crashes quite frequently. I used up my allotted three phone calls for tech support with Adobe and they will not help me and I was instructed me to go onto this forum so that is why I was hoping someone on here can help me. So far I havre deleted my preference file because I was instructed to which only helps for a little while before I begin to have the same problems again. Is there something else I can do to prevent Photoshop from crashing?
Thanks, for your help.
Joe
My specs: Mac 3.06ghz 4gb RAM over 800 gig's of free hard drive space

Snow Leopard has many known stability problems.
Everyone is waiting for Apple to fix them.

(CS3) Lag issue on Vista

Hi,
I've just installed a fresh copy of Windows Vista Business last night. After installing Photoshop CS3 however, I noticed a very serious lag issue. I looked into the problem a bit on google and this forum but did not reach a solution.
In general, the issues are as follows:
1. Opening and closing even the smallest of files takes a ridiculous amount of time.
2. Moving the mouse cursor over the toolbar or menubar requires up to 3 seconds before a response is received.
3. Right click menu requires up to 3 seconds to appear
4. Application of any tools shows a noticeable delay of action.
The most common suggestion is the "Network Printer" solution, which was not helpful to everyone including me. I also tried to change the performance settings and the cache level according to the optimization guide on this site, that also did not solve the problem.
I tried to run the software in XP pro SP2 compatibility mode, did not make a difference in performance. Disabling all the graphic options for Vista such as Aero Experience also was useless.
I'm just wondering as to whether we ever did reach a solution to resolve the issue or is this problem still left hanging?
CS3 ran fine before my upgrade from XP Pro SP2, I do not believe my hardware specs have anything to do with the lag issue. Yet, I'll leave it below just in case you guys need it as reference...
Acer Aspire 5672:
Windows Vista Business Edition
Centrino DuoCore 1.66GHz T2300
2GB 667MHz RAM (1GB x 2)
ATI Radeon X1600
120GB Hard-drive

Bob:
I've stated the Network Printer did not apply to me,
thanks a lot still.
ID.Awe
- I do not have any MS mouse/keyboard software installed
- all auto updaters I can think of are turned off
- I actually have NO anti-virus installed whatsoever XD
- and indexing was stopped before I made this post
The strange thing is....
I went to sleep and left my computer on for the night,
when I woke up, the lag issue was simply gone....
I've restarted my computer and tried running all the usual softwares I have running, CS3 still seem to be stable.
Thanks for everyone's help, I will come back if the problem persists in the future.
Regards
Kei

Photoshop CS3 quits

Hi all
In my workstation when i try to open Photoshop CS3 it open and quits immediately.
This happens frequently in my Mac
Anyone Pls give a solution for this.

This happen to me whenever I do an upgrade to the application or the OS and they are not compatible. Make sure you are using the latest versions of both your OS and the application. Although just notice this is CS3 so not sure how high up the Mac OS is capable with CS3 That maybe an issue asa well.

Lion compatible with photoshop cs3

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Downgrade Lion to Snow Leopard
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3. Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to one. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID then click on the OK button. Click on the Partition button and wait until the process has completed.
4. Quit DU and return to the installer. Install Snow Leopard.
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If you have Snow Leopard Time Machine backups, do a full system restore per #14 in Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions. If you have subsequent backups from Lion, you can restore newer items selectively, via the "Star Wars" display, per #15 there, but be careful; some Snow Leopard apps may not work with the Lion files.

Photoshop CS3 OSX vs Windows SALES

Greetings phellow Photoshoppers, I'd like to know the approximate number and/or ratio of the Apple OSX vs Microsoft Windows sales.
I don't need exact numbers, an approximation will do. I also don't need (nor does anybody) wild guesses or a OSX vs Windows flame war.
I want facts!
Thanks,
WK

>I just checked Amazon's "Sales Ranking" of Photoshop CS3. The Mac version is ranked 178, the Windows version is ranked 31. you said you wanted ADOBE'S sales figures, not amazon's. if your information gathering skills are as poor as your communication and interpersonal skills, i feel sorry for whomever you're gathering this information for, because it's likely to be way off. for example, how do you know that more windows users don't frequent amazon and mac users don't go directly to the adobe store. you don't. extrapolate your heart out. >I also don't need (nor does anybody) wild guesses ... I want facts! but that's apparently what you're going to make anyway by using amazon's sales figures. and what do amazon's "sales rankings" mean? are you prepared to back that up with FACTS? <snicker> (don't worry, i'm not laughing with you, i'm laughing at you.) by the way, bob's the adobe appointed forum moderator... he's been here for years and years helping people for free. where have you been? >I came seeking information about Photoshop. I've haven't received any yet. yes, you have. in post 1. i told you the only people qualified to give out information about adobe sales figures is adobe. then again in post 6, i gave you further suggestions to aid your in you quest for data. apparently you picked up on that and decided to search for yourself. you're welcome. and speeking of rude, it's INCREDIBLY rude to ignore the answers to your questions then to brush off and insult those trying to help you. this IS NOT adobe, but a USER to USER forum that's sponsored by adobe. it is not staffed by adobe. it's staffed by adobe customers who generally go out of their way to give of their free time to help other users of adobe products. even bob levine, who's the forum moderator, isn't paid by adobe, he's volunteering just like the rest of us. so for the THIRD time, if you want information FROM adobe, CONTACT adobe! anything else you come up with will be "wild guesses".

PhotoshopNews: Adobe Photoshop CS3 at a glance!

http://photoshopnews.com/2006/12/14/adobe-photoshop-cs3-at-a-glance/
Even more content out there now on the home page of PhotoshopNews.com

I haven't been able to download CS3 yet, but the Martin Evening pdf (thanks for the link!) has what looks like a piece of great news buried in it:
"For example, before you first had to create an empty new document with the exact pixel dimensions before you could place an image (such as a raw file) as a Smart Object. With Photoshop CS3, you can now place a raw capture file as a Smart Object layer in a single step."
If I understand this right, it means that the functionality of the old Dr Brown Place-a-Matic script is now available from Aperture. We can -- or this makes me hope we can -- send a RAW from Aperture to PSCS3 for editing, and then Place the same image, perhaps twice, as a Smart Object, edit away, and when we Save get the whole edited image back in Aperture without going through the Finder.
I used to use this (from Bridge) all the time to double-expose RAW shots: adjust the sky to one exposure and the ground to another, masking to get both into the final image, all without messing with the pixels of the RAW image. I've missed it. Whoopee.

Adobe Photoshop CS3 Image Processor not converting files to sRGB Profile

I have been experiencing a problem with Photoshop CS3 Image Processor no longer converting profiles to sRGB. It converts all of the files from Camera Raw to JPEG, but not sRGB as well. I used to be able to batch convert an entire folder of RAW images to JPEG, sRGB through the Image Processor.
My Photoshop CS3 Working Space is Adobe RGB (1998). I need to convert an entire folder of images selected in Bridge to sRGB working space in order to publish a photo album from one of the on-line publishing companies. I can open each individual Camera Raw file in Photoshop and convert each to JPEG, sRGB, but this takes a tremendous amount of time.
The following procedure has worked for me in the past, but for some reason no longer works:
I select the images in the desired Bridge CS3 folder. Upper tool bar, "Tools" > "Photoshop" > "Image Processor". In Image Processor:
Section 1 - ""Process files from Bridge only (11)" Whether or not I place a checkmark by "Open first image to apply settings", it makes no difference in the outcome.
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Section 4 - Checkmark by "Include ICC Profile"
I replaced my iMac one month ago and reinstalled Photoshop CS3, but this Image Processor problem had been occurring even with my old computer.
Not sure if you need this information:
I'm currently on Mac OS X Version 10.6.4
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I don't know if it's related, Photoshop CS3 on my old computer was running in Rosetta. I don't know if it's running in Rosetta now, the name does not appear when Photoshop boots up. How do I get it to run in Rosetta again?

Heh heh heh. It's always true that we find the answer just after making public our problems, which in turn we did after trying to find the problems ourselves for hours.
Thanks for following up with the answer.
-Noel

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I know this is an ancient version! But for now it's all I need. Anyway...
My Adobe Updater says "No Internet connection. Please check your Internet settings and/or firewall. Waiting for connection..." That's the first problem. I figured out how to manually update Photoshop and Bridge, but Adobe Updater still shows this message when trying to check for updates. Also, I've tried to update Camera Raw from 4.0 to 4.6 and I can't figure out how to manually install it. I knkow the website says to do the following:
Mac:
Exit Photoshop CS3 and Adobe Bridge.
Open the Finder.
Navigate to the root of the local disk (not the user’s home folder).
Navigate to Library/Application Support/Adobe/Plug-Ins/CS3/File Formats.
Move the existing plug-in to another location (for example, a new folder on your desktop). Ensureyou keep this version in case you need to revert back.
Copy the Camera Raw plug-in, Camera Raw, from the download into the same folder as in Step 4.
Launch Photoshop CS3 or Adobe Bridge.
I manually entered "Library/Application Support/Adobe/Plug-Ins/CS3/File Formats" and it says this folder doesn't exist. Can anyone help me update my camera raw?!
Thank you so much!

Adobe - Photoshop : For Macintosh
Version CS3
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8.4MB
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Download Adobe - Photoshop : For Macintosh : Camera Raw 4.6 update : Thank You
Mac:
1. Exit Photoshop CS3 and Adobe Bridge.
2. Open the Finder.
3. Navigate to the root of the local disk (not the user’s home folder).
4. Navigate to Library/Application Support/Adobe/Plug-Ins/CS3/File Formats.
5. Move the existing plug-in to another location (for example, a new folder on your desktop). Ensure
you keep this version in case you need to revert back.
6. Copy the Camera Raw plug-in, Camera Raw, from the download into the same folder as in Step 4.
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