Photoshop CS6—many problems. Slow.

I hope you can figure things out to make it run better.  We have been using CS6 since the beta and have only seen slowdowns due to video.  We are one of users that is SOO happy that they added in video editing into this new version.  We are an online retailer that edits hundreds of stills per day and were trying to find a better way to integrate more video.  This solved everything!  We can now edit videos inline with our stills and use actions as if they were stills.  Amazing!

Anyways, we have found that we do get slowdowns occassionally.  A quit and restart of Photoshop usualiy does the trick but we do sometimes have to do a full computer reboot, though we I don't recall having to do that since using the Beta.  Ramping up the RAM used in preferences should help too.

I wanted to chime in again. I have a clean system all around. I reformatted my drive (MacBook Pro 2010, 8GB ram, 7200 speed HD) with Lion. So no concerns here about old CS bits and pieces floating around. Also, no antivirus software installed, nor 3rd party plug ins, all typefaces are clean based on the Adobe problem type script.

What did help speed and performance for me was turning off layer previews. Really helped!

But it would still be good to find out about known bugs. I haven't seen such a list anywhere.

For example, for me:

1. When I place Illustrator CS6 art into PS as a smart object, it places at an odd scale, like 99.821% x 100.51. (Initially on paste the toolbar reads 100%, but as soon as 'return' is slected to place the art, non-proportional scaling occurs. Very odd.

2. Keyboard controls not working with the type tool, and it seems other tools as well. So arrow keys won't work, I've also noticed that tool shortcuts will stop working at times. Very frustrating working with type!

Any way to inform us on known bugs, and a timeframe for the next update?

Thanks!

Just a small point in answer to your comment that "type renders poorly compared to CSS HTML"...

Understand that in most browsers, the rendering engine has information about the actual display the type is being rendered upon, and is taking advantage of things like knowing the colored columns on the display are in a particular order to enhance the font smoothing results. Photoshop has no such knowledge of the final display, and thus cannot use color to an advantage during font rendering. That said, being able to force it to do so under certain special conditions would be a nice option.

-Noel

I have this general sluggishness issue as well, it's insanely frustrating. I upgraded from CS4 to CS6 and I am regretting it at the moment. Photoshop CS6 will produce a spinning beachball for 10-30 seconds when I simply try open a tiny 1.5MB file, or try to save a file. This is stuff that happened without a single bat of an eye in CS4. I even bit the bullet and upgraded my RAM from 4GB to 8GB thinking that might be the issue, but it really hasn't impacted anything. I've played with the performance settings as some on these board suggest (ie. Cache levels are at 4, RAM is at 65% of 8GB, drawing mode is at Basic as I find the Normal setting to make things even more sluggish).

Seriously, I've spent a day and a half in some sort of spinning beach ball limbo over the most trivial files and file sizes - I have the hardware to support this stuff, and it all used to work pretty smoothly in CS4. Why isn't CS6 just working so I can get on with work?!

Specs, for the record: MacBook Pro (model 7.1), 2.4GHZ Intel Core Duo, 8GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 320M graphics card.

I even checked to see if there are new drivers for my graphics card, but there are not. Any advice on how to get my new snazzy PS6 going smoothly would be grand.

1) try turning off the layer thumbnail in the layers palette and see if it helps

2) toye ?

Photoshop type does not render the same as all OSes and browsers - but they don't render the same way either.

CS6 type should be much closer to the OS and browsers, but can't match them bug for bug.