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Photoshop CS5 Very Slow Liquify

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May 8, 2010
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I've noticed that in Photoshop CS5, Liquify just works terribly slowly. When I click and drag to distort an image, the image gets distorted sometimes even 10 seconds after I've lifted my hand. Sometimes I have to wait 30-40 seconds for the distortions to happen before I can regain control of Photoshop.

Also, panning is a bit more choppy than in CS4, which annoys me a lot, as it was the case with CS4 compared to CS3, etc... I predict that panning in CS7 will look like a slideshow.

And another thing, when you Flick-Pan, and release the mouse, the canvas flies across the screen, and during that flying animation, in CS4, you could still zoom in and out with the keyboard. In CS5, you have to wait until the canvas has slowed down to a stop to be able to zoom. This is also a strange feature.

Adobe said CS5 will have performance improvements, and I can see filters, adjustments and brushes perform a tiny bit better, but basic things like panning, zooming and liquify got MUCH worse and less responsive, and this is not worth the tradeoff for me, since I use these features very frequently, many times a second.

I use a Wacom Bamboo Fun tablet most of the time, and I noticed that Liquify is much faster (although still too slow for me to use it) when I use my trackpad instead of the pen.

I'm using the Photoshop CS5 trial now, and I have Photoshop CS3 and CS4 both installed on the same computer, so I can tell that CS3 ran much faster, CS4 was a bit slower and CS5 is a LOT slower. I'm using a late 2008 15 inch Unibody MacBook Pro with 9600M / 9400M graphics, 4GB RAM and 2.53 GHz CPU, and speed gets a bit better when using the 9600M.

Here are my questions:

Has anyone else had any of these problems, especially Liquify?
Has anyone else used CS5 and noticed that Liquify runs just fine?
Does anyone have any suggestions of what I could try to cure any of these problems?
Is it possible that this is the way Photoshop CS5 should run on my computer, due to my hardware limitations and bloated software?

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sean-gloss

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I find the mesh is super slow to save the first time, even with the beta plugin. Also reapplying it can take forever. Anybody know if we can use the cs4 liquify tool with cs5?

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zBosonAuthor

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The plugin has worked very well for me too, and I haven't had any problems either. So far so good!

Adobe if you need more feedback, I'm happy to help.

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achmadku

Participant

You can try to start your computer in 64-bit mode liquify works just as it should.

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ndbmphoto

Participating Frequently

YES YES YES...with the fix.... it works like before (CS4) which is fine with me!!

Thanks for the quick solution!!

SO after the rant my compliments for the quick fix!!

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le masurier

Participating Frequently

Well after a full day working, it ran without a glitch. Loading images seems a little slower but from there on it seems much faster and more responsive.

I didn't do any real time testing or anything but it seems to me to be running like a dream.

Oh and more importantly, no freeze ups at all.

Thanks again.

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ndbmphoto

Participating Frequently

Still waiting Bill.....or is everybody at adobe at the same BBQ?? Where is the fix??? Maybe in 18 months BILL with the new CS6!?!?

Guess nobody works over the weekend at adobe, why should they there isn't any competition....BILL is there??

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ndbmphoto

Participating Frequently

How long is it going to take to fix this liquify problem?? Come one guys I need it to work now and better than in CS4 not worse!!! Otherwise why did I spend almost 1K to upgrade???

Looking into the problem isn't enough!!! I need a solution since I use the liquify tool for almost 99.9% of my images (fashion/beauty photography retouching).

Is there a temporary fix??? using the CS4 liquify plugin into the CS5 software?????

do a google search on slow liquify and see what comes up..... still pretty nice and insecure requests for the reason why it is so slow because users think it is their machine (computer) but if I don't get an answer and fi very soon (couple of days at the most) this nice and insecurity will vanish for a HUGE ADOBE ass kicking campaign !!! Since photoshop is known for their arrogantly slow updates for their software and waits till the next big update to correct things....I am not going to wait 18 months for you guys to fix the liquify problem!!!

SO GET TO IT NOW!!!!! So I can do my work and make enough money to keep spending on adobe upgrades!

And as a side note...didn't you "wizzards" have enough time to discover this BIG problem beforehand?? Or were you to busy fighting with Apple about your huge Flash problem??

Chris Cox

Legend

ndbmphoto - as you can see from post 29 onward, Adobe has a fix that is being tested.

Next time, please consider reading the posts in the topic before posting a rant.

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Hawaii_Bill

Participating Frequently

Chris,

Well, great chief, I signed up to test the fix but have not received it. I would think Adobe would be shipping that down to us post haste to cover their embarrassment for the many CS5 failures. Did you have a date for us rude and impatient paying customers when we could hope for some help?

Bill Eger

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Ralph_Eisenberg

Participating Frequently

Just a minor point. While the keyboard shortcut for zooming in works with the Liquify filter, this is not the case for "Cmd -", which has the opposite effect of its intended purpose (that is instead of zoom out it also zooms in. For me, this problem has only arisen so far using Liquify. It is bothersome and I hope it can be cleared up.

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Meredith Payne Stotzner

Community Manager

We are now testing out a fix.

If anyone would like to try the plug-in candidate out, post your e-mail address and I'll send it to you.

We'd appreciate the feedback.

(If you do post your email address make sure to scramble it slightly to minimize the risk of getting spam from web-crawlers.
For example: "tom" at "company dot fr")

Thanks for your help.

Meredith

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le masurier

Participating Frequently

Hi Meredith

Love to test it out, this email is the best for me.

Thanks,

Philip

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le masurier

Participating Frequently

any idea when the fix will be ready. I pretty much can't use ps cs5 as it is. I use liquify a lot and also use the wacom tablet, so its back to cs4 for me.

Cheers