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November 6, 2023
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Font Handling in Photoshop is Incredibly Slow Compared to Illustrator

  • November 6, 2023
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Hello! 

 

I have a question about Photoshop optimization. When scrolling through fonts, Photoshop runs very slowly while previewing them. Illustrator does not seem to have this issue. When scrolling through fonts in Illustrator, it is snappy and almost immediately previews the text, same with After Effects. I am running the latest version on all three programs, however, this has been an issue in Photoshop regardless of the version since I've bought the Creative Suite.

 

I understand that each program has its own purpose and I have always dealt with the sluggishness in Photoshop because I assumed Photoshop processes fonts differently, but it's gotten to a point where I feel the need to work with text exclusively in Illustrator, then switch to Photoshop to finish a design which is honestly somewhat of a disruptive workflow when I know that I can finish a design in Photoshop alone. Is this sluggishness just due to how Photoshop's text tool functions or is there a setting that fixes this? And if this is just how Photoshop works, is there any plugin or 3rd party tool that can fix this?

 

My computer is quite beefy, so its specs shouldn't be the issue:
Ryzen 9 5900X

RTX 3090

64 GB of Memory

 

I've attached video examples to the bottom of this post.

 

I apologize if this question has been answered, but the posts I came across had outdated advice or had not answered the question. Any help is appreciated!

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Lucas33822095ioq6
Participant
December 11, 2023

I have the same problem, did you manage to solve it?

Sameer K
Community Manager
Community Manager
November 6, 2023

Hey, @Hinson21969975wedp. Welcome to the Photoshop Community. Thanks for sharing the video & the details. It helps.

Here are few of my suggestions that you can try:
1 - Go to Type in the main menu > Font Preview Size > set it to None or Small.
2 - Change the Anti-Alias values from Smooth or Sharp or None.

 

Check if this shows you a slight difference in performance. Let me know if it does. Thanks!
Sameer K

Participant
November 6, 2023

Hey Sameer, thanks for the quick reply.

 

Unfortunately, this didn't seem to make any noticeable difference.