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November 2, 2018
Pregunta

Photoshop Freezing When Resizing

  • November 2, 2018
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A very strange problem.  I can resize an image once, work on it, then try to resize a second time.  Each second time the Image Size window freezes with the phrase "Building Preview".  The only way of killing this is to go to the Task Manager and kill the Photoshop process.

Samples:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KcAu1p0UeEolCVLRWRVmLKS6qspk6Cyj/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1atPNM2RGG1oVPBY6egEmocHRS2JKUmeR/view?usp=sharing

Anybody else have a similar problem?  How did you solve it?

3 respuestas

Participant
November 3, 2023

Also have the Problem on a mac Studio M1max with 64GB ram. When typing the new size it freezes by the first digit saying "Building Preview". Only way is to kick photoshop to Nirvana and hope that there is a recovery file... 

unbelievable that Adobe is not able to solve this problem after 7 years... 🤣

I am already moving to Affinity, also some thing are not as good solved there as in PS...

annacm84
Participating Frequently
July 1, 2025

Even still in 2025! Remember when that community expert up above blamed the problem on the user. Which I've seen him do before, even this year.

Participant
December 20, 2018

Having the same problem and unable to find the answer-solution.

Inspiring
October 31, 2019

Same here.  I tried the NVidia trick but still crashes all the time.  It's not every time but it's definitely unreliable.

 

JJMack
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 2, 2018

Your links are private.   What OS are you using, What PS version. What are you doing that is building a preview?  Are you using Image size or transforming a layer if layer what kind?

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JJMack
Participant
January 3, 2019

I'm having the same issues.  It's truly frustrating.  It's not my system, It's Adobe. To answer your questions, I'm using Windows 10 home, 64 bit os, Dell laptop with i7 -8550u w 16 gigs of ram. It happens to me at any random time.  First time I try to use it sometimes.  Other times I'll resize 6 or 7 times and then it gets me.  I go to "Image>Image size"  then I put in my parameters, (usually downsizing a photo) and as soon as I hit ok, the little circles appear that say "building preview", but it's frozen.  The whole program freezes.  The only way to stop it is to go through control panel and end photoshop.  Never had this issue till the 2019 version. Using Adobe CC 2019

The other Adobe products, like Illustrator, work fine.

As far as what I'm doing when the problem happens....nothing with any other program.  I have some tabs open on my chrome browser.  That's it. 

Any ideas?  Thanks, Brent.

Kevin Stohlmeyer
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 17, 2020

Photoshop keeps freezing when I'm trying to resize an image.  I have Windows 10 and Photoshop version 21.2.  It has nothing to do with my display adapters.  've updated to Windows 10 recently and updated Photoshop, as well.  This never happened previously.  I even tried to install and earlier version of Photoshop, but this didn't work.  I tried restarting too, just to see if maybe a stuck process was causing an issue, but this didn't resolve it either.  I can't find a tech support number for them, but my company pays like $400 a month so I need to have this feature! 


Try the steps outlined in this post:

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/troubleshoot-gpu-graphics-card.html