What Eugenio.NYC said would help. But, looking at the canvas size and the number of layers is probably why there's such a huge file size and why its bogging down so much. Without more information,  the only thing I could recommend is maybe merging layers to compress things a bit, but as you said earlier, its not an option.  Do you have any other apps open?  Perhaps closing them could dedicate more resources towards Photoshop while you're working on a file of that size ... View more

I'd love to help,  but I would need to see a view of your layers and any other information to see what went wrong. But without seeing the layers, it almost sounds like there's information on the other layer that's still there.  Try clicking on the little eyeball, on the left to the layer to make a layer invisible,  to see which layer that background is on.  If that's not working,  we'll see what to do once we see your PS Workspace ... View more

No, but if he's been saving and opening ads from a location before,  it tends to go to the last location used as a default ... View more

With the shape being pretty simple I would just use the ellipse tool set to path,  and tweak the anchor points to match the shape,  then go to paths and set the path to be a selection, and I'd just copy and past, so its on a different layer,  then do the ellipse thing on the center circle to delete the white out of the center after setting it to selection.  But that's how I would tackle it.  That's the magic about Photoshop, there's a lot of different ways to achieve the same effect.  So you can go with what you think works best for you. ... View more

Yikes! 800+ fonts! I work in a place designing ads too and we have 2000+ fonts,  but we have a 3rd party font manager called Font Agent Pro,  which allows us to activate or deactivate fonts because I try to not have more than 500 different fonts (including the various font styles) active at a time because it can really bog things down immensely.  I knew a guy who would get so aggravated with his computer,  because he would have every single font activated, but not understand why his computer was bogged down.  I echo the statement about turning font previews off.  But if you have the ability to deactivate certain fonts,  I would take advantage of that too and deactivate the fonts you know you aren't going to use. ... View more

In my experience,  you'll have to do a bit of tweaking in terms of contrast,  color, saturation, perspective, even doing things like maybe blurring things a bit or adding a bit of noise to it.  it would help more if I could see what you've done or are trying to do, because there's no one size fits all solution for this. ... View more

hmmm....when you're initially saving them in PS,  are you making sure they're saved as Maximum? Also, have you done any work to the images after you opened them in Photoshop? ... View more

I know apps like Clip Studio didn't have those issue,  but that problem has less to do with Adobe and more to do with Windows & the Wacom Driver, there's a couple of threads here about it.  ... View more

In regards to the drawing tablet,  what OS and tablet are you working with?  I know there has been issues with Windows 10 and Wacom drivers in recent months. There's threads already out here dealing with the driver and OS issues with that.  But please,  don't shout.  All of us are just users like you.  ... View more

I echo the statements the others said. Could you share a screenshot of what's going on,  so we can get a better idea as to what's the problem.  Its really difficult to figure out what's going on just based on the description. ... View more

I was about ready to pop back on here to suggest actions.  I didn't think of it at first...until I just used an action at work (I have actions to convert images to GS or CMYK for an image in order to be in the print thresholds for newsprint or glossy ads) then I had a bit of a facepalm moment and realized I forgot to mention that.  ... View more

Have you tried uninstalling & reinstalling the app? ... View more

Not that I know of.  I was going to suggest creating a hotkey,  until I read your last part of the post ... View more

What operating system are your running?  If its Windows,  there's some issues with it and Photoshop.  There's a few threads here regarding it,  usually this Error while accessing performance preferences - 'An integer between 96 and 8 is required.' is the usual fix for that issue.  ... View more

The blue box is just an indicator that its anchored into that text box,  you click on the image itself.  Anchoring it into a text box can sometimes be a bit of a pain for me,  which is why I tend to have it as a separate image box & use text wrap ... View more

Did you check the color profile for the file you are dropping it into? ... View more

It all depends. The Cache Tile size sets how much data Photoshop uses at one time.  if its a smaller image, with a lot of layer, use the smaller one,  If you're using a lot of complex things,  the higher size might work for you,  but it would slow things down because of all the data its utilizing ... View more

Maybe this will help, from what I read from Adobe in regards to Optimizing Performance in Photoshop this information is found at Optimize performance Photoshop CC .  I underlined , bolded and put in italics, the wording related to Tile Size Adjust cache levels Cache basics Photoshop uses image caching to speed up the redrawing of high-resolution documents while you're working on them. You can specify up to eight levels of cached image data and choose one of the four available cache tile sizes. Increasing cache levels improves Photoshop’s responsiveness while you work, although images may take longer to load. The cache tile size determines the amount of data on which Photoshop operates at a time. Bigger tile sizes speed up complex operations, such as sharpening filters. Smaller changes, such as brush strokes, are more responsive with smaller tile sizes. Cache presets Three cache presets are available in the Performance preferences. Choose the one that matches your primary use case/purpose of using Photoshop: Web/UI Design: Choose this option if you use Photoshop primarily for web, app, or screen design. This option is appropriate for documents having numerous layers of low-to-medium pixel dimension assets. Default/Photos: Choose this option if you use Photoshop primarily to retouch or edit moderate-sized images. For example, use this option if you normally edit photos originating from your mobile or digital camera in Photoshop. Huge Pixel Dimensions: Choose this option if you work extensively with heavy documents in Photoshop; for example, panoramas, matte paintings, etc. Cache levels For finer control, specify cache levels manually; the default value is 4. If you use relatively small files—roughly 1 megapixel or 1280 by 1024 pixels—and many layers (50 or more), set Cache Levels to 1 or 2. Setting Cache Levels to 1 disables image caching; only the current screen image is cached. If you use files with larger pixel dimensions—say, 50 megapixels or larger—set Cache Levels higher than 4. Higher cache levels speed up redrawing. I hope that helps ... View more

I agree with Davecm.  Use the Pen tool.  You can add anchor points and adjust it to perfectly surround what you want to isolate ... View more

I did this with the image by duplicating the image in another layer, setting it to Multiply and at 60% opacity Or you could tweak things like Curves (image>adjustment>curves)  like I did in this one its all a matter of tweaking things like that and see what works for you ... View more

if you want a simple watermark,  just create a text layer with the text you want,  position it where you want to position it and then tweak the opacity of that layer,  about 30-50% would be good,  but you could see what works for you. ... View more

The best option is to contact customer service.  You should be able to find a link in your account. ... View more

I'm confused.  You said you're OS is Sierra,  but it's 10.9.5...that would correspond to Mavericks,  and as Jeff said,  you need at least El Capitan (10.11) or higher.  ... View more

Or any company related software that you transfer files back & forth from? I mean, I know in my design job,  my Photoshop and InDesign has moments of severe lagging,  mainly due to our company's software that we use for artists to work on ads & to pull it from our queue.  ... View more

That's really simple,  just reduce the opacity of the lower layers,  it on your layer panel,  select the layer you are wanting to make less visible and click on the Opacity box, which will open a slider and you will be able to reduce it.  I use it all the time for my illustration work.  My initial underdrawing will be on a layer that I'll reduce the opacity to to draw over on a different layer ... View more

I agree with Rob Day.  That said,  roughly how large are the images roughly? I know at work, I'll work on Auto or grocery ads that other artists would work on and navigating the pages would crash InDesign, but in doing research, it was because a few images were like 30"x40" at 200dpi, when the image really should have been about 1"X2" tops at that DPI ... View more

Usually if I'm asked to change colors of elements in a photo,  I use adjustment layers. But that's just me.  ... View more