Maximizing the speed of Photoshop Elements

Many digiscrappers that use ACDSee Photo Manager for organizing have mentioned about PSE sometimes bogging down & that they would like to adjust the settings. So I thought I would highlight this article that has some tips for overcoming performance problems.

The full article is here - Revving Up Photoshop Elements 3 (& applies to other versions too) & covers the following:

Tip 1 - Reset Elements settings

Tip 2 - Disable the Photo Downloader

Tip 3 - Reclaim your System Resources - the biggest cause of slowness

Tip 4 - Take Back your CD-ROM Drive & Remote Drives

Tip 5 - Keep the Editor up to Speed - clear the thumbnail caches (causes slowness in all versions of Elements & PS)

Tip 6 - Keep Your Catalog’s File Size Under Control - do it once a month

Tip 7 - Disable the Organizer - if you’re using ACDSee or another program for organizing your files, this portion isn’t necessary


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Posted on : Mar 12 2007
Posted under Computer Maintenance, DigiScrapping, Software, Tutorials - Other |

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Mar 12, 2007 - 04:03:09
Sharon said:

Thanks for that - some good tips there.

May 16, 2007 - 11:05:45
Kim said:

I am trying to organize and move the folders in the
organize categories. I can’t seem to move them. I
followed the instructions (click on new, control alt,
properties, then new category) it doesn’t move.

Thanks Kim

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