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Hi David,
I can answer that!
Typically you'll want to switch over to Nvidia Only mode before you use Photoshop. If you check out my FAQ (http://codykrieger.com/gfxCardStatus/faq), you'll see that there is a section addressing issues similar to the one you're experiencing. Once an application starts rendering some OpenGL- or CoreAnimation-backed things, it doesn't always play nice when you switch GPUs. This is an unfortunate side effect of the current switching method. I'm not sure that there is really a way to get around it, unfortunately - not yet at least.
Hope that clears things up!
Best,
Cody
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