Speed Up Photoshop 3D

Is there a way to speed up Photoshop 3D? I got the latest i7, 3.5ghz, iMAC and the rendering is still slow. Is there something I need to tweak in Photoshop to speed things up. I usually work on larger canvas of 5000 X 5000, the 3D module is so slow to render, it almost makes it unusable. Any ideas?
-Ben

Thanks for your answers.
I'm working on rendering some of our 2D samples in to a 3d scene and chose a final resolution of 2100x1500 (in case these were to be put on a postcard in the future). It sounds like this may be a bit much for a destop PC to render out quickly.
It would be nice to know whether there's a significant advantage to upgrading some of our CPUs in order to determine whether it's worth the cost. I suppose that would require exploring some benchmarking sites to see their findings. We have 8GB of RAM (64-bit systems), so I don't know if increasing that would help either.
I don't think I like the lights with hard shadows, so I don't think I'll remove their "softness" for my scenes, but I'll look in to the other suggestions to increase rendering speed.
Maybe the optimal workflow would be to set-up several 3D scenes, create an action to render and then stamp the 3D layer and save, and then batch-process the files overnight.
Thanks for your help!
JP

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This is actually a multiple question post.
My aim is to try and cut down some time on Photoshop, mainly when using big files (over 2 or 3Gb) not only when reading and saving but most importantly applying adjustments or modifying image.
Almost every other day my daily working files go to 2 or 3Gb each and its painfully slowing me down the time it takes to sometimes apply some transformations let alone the process of saving as safeguard with regularly over the day.
Today was working on a 10Gb file and it would take Photoshop close to 15min just to open the file...flattening the image would take around that too and saving a little over 25min.
I know on Mac's its a pain in the back to move the system swap files to another disk (although theres an app that supposedly does that for you (Xupport).
I just find it hard to find out what best use I could make for a SSD I would add to my existing configuration that could speed up Photoshop on Mac:
1. Install system and apps?
2. Use system swap and leave system+apps in other HDD?
3. Use for Photoshop scratch disk?
4. Any of the above in same SSD?
Other pertinent data:
Every project once completed is moved to a backup USB disk so the durability/reliability of SSD isnt really a problem althought I aware SSD has some issues regarding tearing over multiple re-writting over time.
Mac Pro dual quad-core 2.8 (MacOSX 16.2 + Photoshop CS4)
8Gb DDR2 Ram (soon to be 12Gb)
1 SATA 320Gb for data in use + system +apps
1 SATA 500gb for general purpose data and backups before going to external HDD plus Photoshop scratch disk
Ty in advance for any help.

You have plenty of system to throw at Photoshop. The application ought not to slow down to the point of un-usability but I'm certainly not working with images at that size.
Here are the techniques I have used to make almost all applications faster:
Add more RAM. That way, any application you use won't have to be swapped out to disk if you are running lots of applications.
Move OS X's swap drive to something faster.
In the case of Photoshop, move Photoshop's swap drive to something faster with lots of space
Get a hotter graphics card that your applications will take advantage of.
With respect to #1, Adobe's Photoshop is a 32-bit application. Photoshop will benefit from your Mac not using its swapfile as additional RAM but Photoshop will not see any more than 4GB of RAM and will probably see a lot less than that (most 32-bit applications use something like 2GB).
With respect to #2, here's how to do this:
Edit the file com.apple.dynamic_pager.plist, located in /System/Library/LaunchDaemons. Replace the/var/vm path with the full path to your swap partition. In my case, the entire plist ends up looking like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
                <key>Label</key>
                <string>com.apple.dynamic_pager</string>
                <key>ProgramArguments</key>
                <array>
                     <string>/sbin/dynamic_pager</string>
                     <string>-F</string>
                     <string>/Volumes/Swap/.vm/swapfile</string>
                </array>
                <key>OnDemand</key>
                <false/>
</dict>
</plist>
Save and reboot, then check your new swap location is being used with this command:
ps -wax | grep dynamic_pager -m1
Finally, you probably want to clear out any old swapfiles from /var/vm:
sudo rm -rf /var/vm/swapfile*
If you have two SSDs, use one for OS X, the other for Photoshop. And remember, for an 8 GB file, Photoshop will want a lot more than 8GB as its pagefile.
You will want to experiment to see what methods work best for you.
Good luck.

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A catalog with 6000 items is really a little one. There are users with catalogs over 100 000 items. My bigger one is 53 000 today without any sign of slowing down.
Since the size of your catalog is not the problem, could you describe for which kind of operation your organizer is slow ? The only procedure which is really dependent on catalog size is the backup : any kind of backup is dependent anyway.
Other factors may be considered, like background tasks for the autoanalyzer, watched folders, face recognition...
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Speed Up Photoshop (and Everything) With SSD

'Tis the season to spend money.
FYI, today on Amazon.com you can get a ridiculously fast 256GB OCZ Vertex 4 SSD drive for only $159.99, which is an unprecedented low price for a drive of this capacity.
http://www.amazon.com/OCZ-Technology-2-5-Inch-Industrys-Warranty/dp/B007RARHSO/ref=sr_1_1? ie=UTF8&qid=1353689009&sr=8-1&keywords=vertex+4
It's hard to find one thing besides SSD that can so radically speed up a computer system in general, especially for applications that do a lot of I/O like Photoshop.
No doubt prices will be dropping more in the future, but at this price I suggest ordering 2 or more of these drives and setting up a RAID 0 array from which to run everything. I just ordered one as a gift.
-Noel

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A system run from SSD runs faster at just about everything. HDDs, especially with lots of small and relatively random I/O operations, are not at all efficient, as the seek times really add up. Plus, in the cases where there actually IS a big contiguous block of data - e.g., a big raw file on a defragged disk, an HDD still can't even come close to using all the bandwidth of a SATAII link, let alone a modern 6 gigabit SATAIII link.
Just to give an idea, some disk benchmark programs offer what's called a "Random 4K" test, which means the benchmark will generate random small I/O requests to/from various parts of the drive. An SSD-equipped system may be able to sustain tens of megabytes/second of actual data throughput with random 4K operations. By contrast a hard drive may achieve only a twentieth of that or less. That's the difference between something taking 1 second or 20 seconds.
Here's an identical benchmark run on my SSD array vs. my Hitachi 1TB hard drive (which I use for internal backup). Note that the difference is more like 30 to 1.
-Noel

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Photoshop cc 2014 slow after update from mac os 10.9 to 10.10.2

hello
i have update from 10.9 to 10.10.2 i am using a mac pro 2012 2.4 ghz 6 cores 48GB ram and a NVIDIA Quadro K5000 3583 MB
since i update photoshop is extremely slow
any function takes much longer to render , and i am now trying to reverte to the back up runing 10.9.5 again but before that would liek to know if someone can please help me
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Lately my Macbook pro has been slowing way down. This primarily happens when working in Photoshop (or at least that is where I notice it most) and if I shut down then start back up it is slightly faster. I am an old PC guy and have only been on a Mac for a year now. With PC's you could clean out a cache or do some other things to "clean out the system". Is there something I can do on the Mac to bring the working speed back up to where it was when I bought the system? I have already cleaned out the trash and I transfer most of my images and large file to an external drive so I have over 1/2 my HD space still available.

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Is there something I can do on the Mac to bring the working speed back up to where it was when I bought the system?
1: Max out your RAM. Crucial.com has a excellent method to make sure you get the exact RAM specifications and tells you the amount of RAM slots available (you have two, both filled with the default RAM) Buy your RAM wherever you like of course once you get the information.
2: If you have a more recent machine, OtherWorld Computing has 16GB of RAM available for $1500 if your game. That would most certainly speed up Photoshop as it wouldn't have to swap the extra memory to the hard drive (slow). I don't know who else sells 16GB of RAM at this time.
3: You can install a 500GB OCZ Vertex SSD drive and use that as the boot drive, your Photoshop will most certainly scream. But the fastest 500GB OCZ Vertex SSD on the market is $1800. Apple's is slower (needs a new Mac) and is about $1500. You could go with a smaller/faster SSD, but lack significant storage space. SSD's are not 100% erasable and have limited write capacity. You could opt for a 7,200 RPM hard drive replacement and gain some more speed and large storage capicity without breaking the bank.
4: You can run ALL the maintenance and cleaning aspects of the free OnyX and reboot, that will perform the "cache cleaning" your looking for and perhaps solve something that is messed up and slowing your machine down, but it's not a significant performance enhancer.
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Greetings from a Photoshop Newbie. I need a computer, preferably a Mac laptop, with some serious processing power. I take photos with a Pentax 645Z; files are 50MB raw. I upload from Adobe Bridge and manipulate the photo, sometimes turning them into files in excess of 250MB. I cannot resize as the large files are needed for enlargements. Have all sorts of problems trying to manipulate, add effects and saving most large files. I need some serious processing power. Can anyone suggest what Mac i should purchase? I thank you in advance for your help :-)

It sounds as if you're having some system-related problems now, unrelated to processing power as such. In particular, a buggy video driver can cause everything to slow to a crawl.
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My Photoshop CS3 goes very slow/choppy when I have a selection made.

Hello,
My Photoshop CS3 goes very slow/choppy when I have a selection made, with those little moving lines indicating the selection (the lines that look like walking ants). When I'm adding to the selection, it's fine again, because the "ants" aren't moving, same with when I hit Q to enter Quick Mask Mode--as long as the "ants" aren't moving, my Photoshop isn't slow. Is there any way to fix this? To either speed up Photoshop or to stop the "ants" from moving, and simply allow selections to be indicated by broken lines, but not moving broken lines?
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Photoshop CS6: are my expectations too high?

Photoshop CS6 is very slow opening some files.
I am using Windows 7 Pro 64 bit, an
Intel Core i7-4770 CPU @ 3.40GHz,
16 GB RAM
2TB accelerated (via 32GB SSD) primary HDD (6gb Sata III) - OS and Photoshop on this drive
120GB Samsung Evo 840 SSD dedicated for scratch disk usage - no files on it whatsoever
The file I am using as a reference is a .psd file that is 166 MB in size. This file has many layers.
When I have cache tile size set to 128k it opens in less than 6 seconds. At these settings the document size reads 24.1M/929.6M and efficiency shows 88%
When I have Photoshop set to use 1024k cache tile size, opening this file takes a good 27-32 seconds. Document size shows 24.1M/4.45G and efficiency shows 30%! (scratch reads 18.4G/12.2G)
First off, I admit that when I installed the dedicated SSD for a scratch disk I expected I would see an immediate improvement in operating speed of Photoshop and that this particular file would load quickly even if I had set the tile cache to 1024k. However, I see virtually no difference in opening this file from before when I had no dedicated SSD scratch disk.
Are my expectations wrong on this count and if so why?
Second, I can't get my head around the issue with setting the tile cache size to 1024 creating such a difference in file opening speed when compared with 128k as well as the reported doc size of 4.45G and 30% efficiency!
I thought for sure I'd never see my efficiency drop down much below 100% due to the fact that I have so much ram (i have set Photoshop to use up to 85%) and that I have this dedicated 120GB SSD scratch disk. Why is the efficiency so low when I have unleashed Photoshop to use all 120GB of the SSD and the Scratch size reads 18.4G/12.2G so it doesn't even appear as though it is using much of the SSD, yet my efficiency remains at 30%!?
Are my expectations wrong here too, and if so, why?
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Hi doctorhifi,
I was able to download your file.
Settings: Cache Tile Size: 1028K (my normal setting)
Dragging it from Explorer to Photoshop, the application opens and loads the file in 11 seconds. At that point I'm presented with a dialog with a list of 9 missing fonts (not unexpected, every system is different).
Just to get to the point where the dialog is presented, my Photoshop Temp scratch file grows to 27.4 GB. System RAM usage (per Task Manager) reaches 17.9 GB. Clicking through the missing font dialog and displaying the document causes RAM usage to go to 18.1 GB.
Doing Image - Reveal All takes another 8 seconds and results in a very wide 11413 x 3365 pixel canvas to be shown, which is white and extends off to the right. RAM usage is at this point up to 26.1 GB and the scratch file to reach 49.5 GB.
Settings: Cache Tile Size: 128K
Dragging it from Explorer to Photoshop, the application opens and loads the file in 7 seconds. At that point I'm presented with the missing font dialog.
Just to get to the point where the dialog is presented, my Photoshop Temp scratch file grows to 4.5 GB. System RAM usage (per Task Manager) grows to 9.0 GB. Clicking through sees RAM usage to go to 9.2 GB.
Doing Image - Reveal All takes another 5 seconds. RAM usage is at this point up to 11.2 GB and the scratch file at 8.0 GB.
- Faster and with much smaller numbers than with the large cache tile size.
It's pretty clear the smaller cache tile size is the better choice for working on documents similar to yours. And I have to say, I'm surprised to see the system resource usage go up so much just with the larger cache tile size - that's not typical. What IS pretty typical, however, is for Photoshop to chew through gigabytes like candy. I believe the fact that the RAM usage is a bit higher than the amount you have is probably why it takes quite a lot longer to open on your system with the large cache tile size.
I'll admit I don't know all the internal implications of the different cache tile sizes either, but Adobe DOES say that a "tall and thin" document will do better with the smaller choices. "Tall" meaning lots of layers.
I haven't looked your document over in detail yet to try to determine why it's quite so resource-intensive. I see on a quick glance that it has some smart objects that have been transformed. I wonder if something about having done that is causing some thrashing in the process of generating the final image.
-Noel

Brush Cursor don't work correctly in Adobe Photoshop CS 5

I'am using Adobe Photoshop CS 5.1 on my brand new MacMini Server (Mid 2011). Everytime I change the diameter of my brush below 500-600px the brush cursor disapperar. It show the reagular Cursor. The Position of the Brush is also wrong because it has a vertical and horizontal offset, which makes it unpossible for me to use it. This worked correctly of years now with Photoshop CS3 and CS 4 in Tiger, Leopard and Snow Leopard. Snow Leopard also with Photoshop CS 5. For me it seems to be a Problem of the Intel HD 3000 Graphicsdriver and Adobe says that too. No Way to fix it for Adobe. Other People have the same Problem on their MacBook Airs (Mid 2011). The Problem is also well know at the Adobe Photoshop Support Forum.
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FOUND A WORKAROUND: . . at least it works in my configuration (for two days in a row now).
If I have my external screen (Eizo CG223W) turned on, in standby mode, when i boot-up my mac, and the mini wakes up the screen from it's standby mode: the Photoshop brush issue is there.
If i have the external screen powered off during boot up, and power the screen on manually afterwards, the brush issue is not there
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Does this work for others who have this issue too?

Photoshop CS5 running VERY slow

Hi,
My Photoshop CS5 started running very slowly. I followed some suggestions and removed a bunch of programs and services from the start up menu. I also disabled Windows Search Host Protocol as I was getting frequent performance warnings from it while using Photoshop.
Now Photoshop runs faster, but it takes incredibly long time to save files. The computer goes into hybernation mode waiting for Photoshop to finish saving.
I imagine this was caused by disabling one of the services in the start up menu or by disabling of Windows Search Host Protocol.
Does anyone know what programs and services need to be included in the start up menu for efficient working of Photoshop. And whether disabling of Windows Search Host effects the running speed of Photoshop?
Thank you,
Margrarita

Margrarita,
Disabling Windows services that may be essential to normal functioning of your operating system itself is not something that is recommended.
First and foremost, we need to review Photoshop's behavior on your computer to be able to advice further.
Can you go to Help > System Info from Photoshop, copy & paste that data here for us to analyse, thereby give you further suggestions?
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