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The Patina
Inspiring
February 19, 2022
Question

Photoshop 23.2 Freezing on large PSDs

  • February 19, 2022
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Hi all

While working on a biggish PSD in Photoshop 23.2, I've had the app freeze and become unresponsive when trying to add and adjust a new levels layer.

For reference the file is about 28x48cm at 600dpi and has 26 layers, some of which have a lot of applied layer styles. I'm on a 2019 27" iMac, running Monterey with 40GB RAM.

The odd thing is that the Mac OS doesn't see the app as unresponsive (ie: 'is not responding') no matter how long I leave it.

I've tried various options (flushing caches, changing scratch disks, unenabling graphics card) short of a full clean install of the app and have chosen to downgrade to the previous availoable version of Photoshop 23.1.1.

This seem to fix the problem, so I think I'll have to wait on 23.2.1 before upgrading again!

Hope that helps if someone else has the same issue.

VBW
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    devinnight
    Participant
    February 21, 2022

    Yes. I uninstalled the latest version and went back a version. Problem fixed.

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      J453
      Legend
      February 21, 2022

      @devinnight are you on macOS?

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      devinnight
      Participant
      February 21, 2022

      I have a similar problem, I noticed mine whenever I went to adjust the hue-saturation. The menu pops up, and then it just sits there and I can't do anything.

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      The PatinaAuthor
      Inspiring
      February 21, 2022

      Hi Jeffrey

      Yes, that sounds like it.

      Okey dokey: will stick with 23.1.1 for now.

      Look forward to a fix in 23.2.1! 🙂

      VBW
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      J453
      Legend
      February 21, 2022

      My guess is this what you're seeing if you're on macOS: https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-bugs/p-photoshop-23-2-freezes-on-macos-while-changing-layer-styles-opacity-on-a-psb-file/idc-p/12763379

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        The PatinaAuthor
        Inspiring
        February 20, 2022

        Hi Jeffrey

        Sorry: didn't get notified of your reply.

        I can't share the file publicly, unfortunately, as it's a client artwork that's just gone to print.

        Do you still need this, or have you managed to replicate the issue?

        If you do still need it, do you have a non-public way that I could send it?

        VBW
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        J453
        Legend
        February 19, 2022

        Could you share a file that you're having trouble with and which layer to edit to trigger the problem? Use CC files or dropox to share a link to the PSD.

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        choc_tpot
        Participant
        February 19, 2022

        I'm having the same issue, regardless of file size, but for me its in the layer style menu, especially when i add pattern overlay and try to adjust the pattern scale. I'm running 2021 Macbook Pro with M1 Max

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