Sluggish Finder

I have had no problems with my mac until today. Every action I make in finder takes thirty seconds to complete, and it seems to be affecting my Indesign since it takes thirty seconds to save, thirty seconds to place, thirty seconds to export, etc, etc. It's especially annoying since I layout a newspaper and I am not looking forward to waiting a minute every time I need to place an article or advertisement for a twenty-eight page paper.
I have reset the preferences on Finder, ejected my external hard drive to make sure that wasn't the culprit. There is no third-party program on here that I am aware of (it is a work computer). The main programs that I use are Adobe Illustrator, Indesign and Photoshop. (By the way, when I work in Indesign it is completely fine, only when I save do I experience lag).
Please, please somebody help me make this work faster
Mac: iMac 2012
Processor: 2.7 GHz, Intel Core i5
Memory: 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M 512 MB
Software: OS X 10.9.5

So I forced Finder to restart and that didn't fix it so I reset the SMC and it worked!
I actually restarted it this morning to try and fix the lag and it did nothing. Generally the computer is off until Wed & Thursday when I am using it and then it is put to sleep between those two days and then shut off for the rest of the week.
Could you explain to me what the SMC is? And should I reset the PRAM as well even though it is working fine now?

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