Question

Is anyone else getting terrible lag with Artboards in Photoshop 2024?

Forum|Forum|4 months ago
December 26, 2025
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Hi everyone,

I'm writing to report a frustrating performance issue I've been dealing with since updating to Photoshop 2024.

Whenever I work on a project with multiple artboards that has a decent amount of content (layers, groups, effects), the performance takes a nosedive. Simple tasks like panning the canvas or moving an artboard result in severe stuttering and lag. It feels very unoptimized.
I never had this problem with the 2023 version on the exact same machine. My PC is powerful enough (Spec: [CPU i7 12/GPU 3070]) to handle these files, so it seems to be a software regression.

Has anyone found a fix for this? Is Adobe aware that the Artboard performance is broken in the new versions?

Thanks.

Windows

Stephen Marsh

Community Expert

Keeping in mind that Photoshop only has a single canvas, save the file (presuming shrinkwrap on save is active), then go to Image > Canvas Size and take a look at the pixel dimensions, which are the bounds of all the "separate" artboards. This may help you to understand part of the overhead issue.

Sameer K

Community Manager

Hey all! Welcome to the Photoshop Community. I'll help you figure this out. Photoshop 2026 is available for download via the Creative Cloud desktop app. You can try it out.

For Photoshop 2024, you can follow the conversation here from the period: https://adobe.ly/45ssfPk;

For quick access, I'll repost what I've shared there. If this does not help, you can follow the thread and the top-pinned correct answer:

1 - Go to Edit/Photoshop > Preferences/Settings (CTRL/CMD + K) > Performance > Advanced Settings > Disable 'GPU Compositing' & restart Photoshop & check if it helps.

If it does not help, reverse this & try step 2.

2 - Create a mask on the Artboard level & check if that helps.

Let me know how it goes.

Thanks!

Sameer K
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