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P: MacBook Pro Apple M2 Max Laggy Liquify

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January 8, 2023
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MacBook Pro Apple M2 Max 96GB RAM - Photoshop 24.2
I recently changed to this new computer and photoshop is super laggy in tools like liquify and other filters, the brush lags a lot!
Even the zoom is slow.
Even my 2015 MacBook is faster at these tasks.

I don't know what is going on but something can't be right...

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CShubert

Community Manager

@29230727 did you try and did this work?

Try the following:

Go to Preferences/Technology Preview and check "Disable Native Canvas" - Restart Photoshop.
If you hold down the Alt key when you select Filter > Liquify... does it work correctly without crash?

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Anonymous

Hello I am having the same issues noted here. I have a new Macbook Pro M2 Max and cannot use liquify because of how slow and delayed it is.

Sameer K

Community Manager

Thanks for confirming plugin usage.

You've mentioned Photoshop 24.2, please update Photoshop to the latest version 24.3 via the Creative Cloud desktop app.

If the issue exists, it'll help if you include more info about what you see. Could you please share a screen recording of this behavior & the system info of Photoshop from Help > System info > Copy & paste into a text document > upload to Creative Cloud files (https://assets.adobe.com/files) and share the link here.

As a test, press & hold the OPT key when you go to Filter > Liquify filter to skip using GPU & try again.

Thanks!
Sameer K

fastfingers

Known Participant

It's a pretty annoying and probably hard-to-replicate Liquify bug:

When there are other layers on top of the layer that's being liquified, all looks fine in the Liquify section, but on return to Photoshop UI the result is not applied.

This only happens about a third of the time.

The workaround is to move the layer that is about to be liquified to the top of the layer palette and move it back where it belongs after. 'Load last mesh' doesn't work either when this happens.

Anyone else seeing this?

System: MacBook M2 Max, macOS Ventura, Photoshop 24.2.0

fastfingers

Known Participant

Update - after watching this more, this Liquify not returning result is happening regardless of whether the layer is on top.

Sometimes it will return a result, sometimes not.

The only workaround I know at the moment is to try again and hope it will actually apply what I did in the filter window.

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Abreu.pedroAuthor

Participant

Hi Kevin! No, zero plugins instaled yet..

CShubert

Community Manager

Thank you @Abreu.pedro, curious if you use any plugins by Damon D Bell?

If so then the thread below that @Kevin Stohlmeyer posted is for your issue and once we hear back from you we can merge it so you are informed on the progress of the fix.