Soundgarden wrote: CC 2014 wasn't too bad in performance compared to CS6 - but ironically enough, each ver since CC 2014 has gotten slower in performance. Reminds me of Apple's software (ie: iTunes).... every new ver of iTunes would get slower and slower and slower and slower and slower, etc.. Apple said they were "adding new features."  Turned out that Apple was adding features that allowed them to make more money by offering more types of products to sell thru iTunes - their greed continues to kill the performance of iTunes.  Profit before product.  It's industry wide with software... roll it out before it's ready so we can sell more features, nevermind it's buggy at every click.  But then again, I'm probably "holding it wrong." Pretty soon Adobe products could turn into the same software model as most smartphone apps... Give the software away for free, but sell "coins" that allow the users to purchase upgrades and performance enhancements.  So instead of $600 a year from each user, we'll siphon $1,000 a year by making them continue to buy in-app upgrades.  ha. An app like Photoshop is not Candy Crush. I don't mean to sound terse but, please. They make a killing as is with the PS Photog Plan (which is about $120 USD/year). ... View more

jørnm65 wrote: Thanks Chris! solved my problem. But what does it mean to uncheck "use graphic processor". Does it interfere anything else in Bridge or PS CC? As far as I know, that particular option in ACR only affects cosmetic performance in ACR (such as scrubby zoom). I think it helps with acceleration of other tools too but don't quote me. ... View more

allisonkae wrote: In response to the last paragraph, what kinds of things would I have to Uninstall or exit out of? How many programs do I have to delete before I can use photoshop? Also, is there any chance this problem may stem from the program's constant communication with a cloud? Thank you for offering a solution that I can work with, and not just telling me what's wrong. I really appreciate it. Anything that resides in memory that's non-essential to the task at hand. (Apps that run in the background can be exited in the SysTray in the lower right, usually by right-clicking its icon. e.g., Adobe's own CC Desktop App allows this.) I never let apps run at startup if I can help it. I know what I want, when I want it. You can usually let antivirus and antimalware apps run, but note they, too, can slow down your system due to real-time scanning going on (if it's enabled). These can usually be suspended or paused (usually by right-clicking its icon in the SysTray) while you do something more intensive. The CC App consumes little memory, plus it's needed to sync and check your license at least once a month plus use resources like TypeKit. ... View more

RAM, RAM and RAM would be the best thing to boost the performance of Photoshop/Illustrator. (The same rings true for any application, not just Adobe's oeuvre.) As it stands, on my Windows 8.1 Update machine, I only have a few minor things running in the background and the SysTray. (Only 4 icons active in the SysTray alone.) I have a total of 12 GB of RAM to play with. Photoshop CC 2015, when first opened but with no documents active, takes up about 380 MB of memory. Opening a multi-layer, 16-bit, 3000 x 3000 pixel, 300 DPI document boosts Photoshop use to about 910 MB. I imagine opening and closing documents would continue RAM usage to climb until it reaches the amount specified in Edit > Preferences > Performance > Memory Usage, where it would then auto-flush to make room for current documents. (Maybe Chris can clarify this as I'm no propeller-head on the matter either.) My advice would be to take a long, hard look at what's going on behind the scenes on your system(s). On Windows 8, Ctrl + Shift + Esc will tell you what's going on usage-wise. (I believe the same applies for Windows 7 but don't quote me.) Uninstall or just exit anything that's not essential. Windows Key + Pause/Break will tell you the basics of your system (like processor and installed memory). ... View more

So... Edit > Purge > All doesn't work? (Alternatively, hold down Alt (Option on Mac) > click Help > About Photoshop) ... View more

If using PS CC 2015, there's a new command: Edit > Purge > All ... View more

Something has to be up with your system. I use an Nvidia GTX 650 (2 GB VRAM) with all GPU features enabled and don't have those problems with zooming, panning, etc. Have you tried reseating the video card itself? (Similarly, check your monitor cable connections. Try different ones, if possible.) ... View more

I would expect APNG would have to become a standard first and be supported by all the major browsers. ... View more

General consensus is that's a pretty good 2-in-1. I think the only real negative I've heard is battery life. (Around 8 hours? Can't remember.) ... View more

Not sure about CS6, but I know CC has square brushes by default under the set of presets. See grab with the options bar below: I don't think hardness can be adjusted either so be aware of that. ... View more

Awesome. It can be finicky if you don't go slow enough. I should have noted in my screenshot that where the "grip" of the Options bar and the bottom of the menu bar intersect is where my mouse cursor was as that's how the blue indicator lights up to indicate docking. ... View more

Odd. It works for me: Is there some kind of video driver weirdness going on, maybe? ... View more

Canvas size refers to the overall "pixel playground" in the document. It encompasses all the layers in your document but does *not* change any aspect of those layers (like dimensions). Image size refers to the overall image size of the document, including the canvas and layers. Changing it changes everything about the document dimensionally. If you need more room for your document but don't want to change your layers you'd go for Canvas Size. (Even better, use the Crop tool and move the handles beyond the boundaries and confirm.) If you want to change the dimensions of the entire document, you'd go for Image Size. If you need to change a particular layer, you'd use any of the Edit > Transform commands or Edit > Free Transform. ... View more

You're either doing something wrong or something went kablooey with your Photoshop installation. Can you even select something on an open document? ... View more

How about the menu commands? Do those work? (Select > All for selecting entire contents of a layer. Edit > Copy to copy; Edit > Paste to paste.) ... View more

JNK-Art wrote: I agree. I Fault Adobe and MS. Adobe wants you to pay a monthly fee for CC, so don't count on them updating their "not so old software" anytime soon. MS ... are just idiots. Always on the verge of greatness and they do something to mess it up. They are clueless that the vast majority of Surface Pro 3 users are artists. However, until it is fixed I do have a work around for everyone. I've only purchased Sketchbook Pro 2015 (v7) and Corel Painter 2015 (both of which work fine with the Surface Pro 3 (SF3). For CS6 or older programs that strictly use the wintab (aka Wacom like devices) do the following.... Directions: 1. You must download the newest N-Trig driver (ntrig.com). There is a Wintab Driver 1.0.0.16 but there is also a 1.0.0.17 that works as well. 2. Install the driver. Photoshop and most other Wintab (or Wacom like use programs such as - Photoshop CS6/CS5, Corel Painter 12, SB Pro 5 or 6 ... and so forth) will now work on the SP3. 3. However .... other programs such as Onenote, Sketchbook Pro 2015 and their like will not work!!! Note: Corel Painter 2015 are the only "smart" Program Creators to have an option in the programs "preferences" to use n-trig or wacom (aka wintab) drivers. This wonderful program can switch back and forth. Such a simple solution ... hint, hint!!! 4. To get sketchbook Pro 2015 and other programs to work again ... uninstall the N-Trig Wintab driver in the Control Panel/Programs. 5. Yes, you must install and un-install the Wintab driver ... Annoying but it works for all your Art Programs and other Pen Pressure programs/apps. Call MS and ask them to at least create an "on and off switch" for the wintab driver till this gets fixed, (this on off switch should be in the new Surface Pro 3 "Hub" Pen utility program)!!! However, as you can tell from Corel ... software makers can fix this issue as well, hint, hint again Adobe!!! Until it is fixed: All we can do is call MS and ADOBE (and their greedy like,) tell them to fix their software and don't let up till they do. Secondly, I personally will not buy anything (software or hardware) until this is fixed. Thirdly, I will never "rent" my software Adobe. JNK. Not to be an annoying jerk, but a couple of points: Autodesk are moving towards a subscription model. Yes, you can get SketchBook Pro 7 as a so-called "permanent" license but all you're getting is minor updates. (And upgrade pricing is going bye-bye in February, if I recall.) Something to keep in mind as you may have no choice in the future *but* to subscribe. You really don't own the software even in a permanent/purchased setup anyway. They just give a license to use it regardless of the situation. While we're on the subject, Autodesk released their newer version of SketchBook Pro for mobile without letting users of the previous paid version of SketchBook Pro know what was going on. They just dropped it onto the Google Play and the App Store. Not very polite (or professional), in my opinion, and they ended up with a lot of angry users as a result. Corel...maybe it's just me and how I used to use PaintShop Pro, but I could never wrap my head around that app's interface. It's mostly clunky; it's like they're trying to be Photoshop but can't be Photoshop for obvious reasons. I switched to Photoshop Elements 9 from PaintShop Pro X2. I actually considered PSP again before deciding on Photoshop CC. The kicker was trying to use layer masks in PSP. Just...bleh. Guess I was too used to how Photoshop Elements did it (which is very much like how full-on Photoshop does it, minus the fancy style and adjustment layers...which was also one of the reasons why I upgraded). Calling a company like Adobe "greedy" is a bit unfair (not to mention the wrong way to communicate with a company). For $10 USD/month for the latest versions and any and all new features/updates for Photoshop and Lightroom via the Creative Cloud Photography Plan? I'm pretty sure we're the ones getting away with murder there. Adobe made a ton of cash from the CC Photography Plan, hence why they made it permanent. People found it to be the "sweet spot" for subscribing. They couldn't be more right. By the time a couple years pass by, we're still not approaching what people would pay outright just to use a copy of CS6 *minus* Lightroom. People pay more than that a month just to play a stupid MMORPG. Hell, people pay more for in-app purchases on mobile games. Just my observations. ... View more

As csuebele mentioned, Auto-align won't work with Smart Objects; you need to rasterize before initiating the command. You used the script which basically does the same thing but with a little less input on your behalf. ... View more

You can find your serial under your account page at creative.adobe.com. ("Products" link.) As for Elements 8, that's a bit old so if you're installing on something like Windows 8.1 your mileage may vary. ... View more

Did you see if N-trig could reproduce the issue on their end? They have CS6 listed as compatible. ... View more

? Are you looking for the actual Tree, Frame and (new) Flame scripts? They were moved to Filter > Render. Just like I mentioned above. ... View more

Using Photoshop CC 2014.2? They were moved to Filter > Render. ... View more

Noel Carboni wrote: By the way, just as a test I've just done a stitch of 120 overlapped raw files (on my 12 core 48 GB system with SSD array, 200 history steps configured).  I first started Camera Raw on them, set development parameters to6144 x 4096 x 16 bits/channel, and chose [Done].  Then I started Photomerge, selected the raw files, and started Task Manager and an Explorer window to watch the resource usage mount. At 3 minutes in, Photoshop is converting raw files and memory usage is mounting at 15 GB.  Photoshop Tempxxxxxxxxxxx Scratch files total 18 GB at this point. 5 minutes:  RAM 19 GB, scratch 23 GB. 7 minutes:  RAM 24 GB, scratch 29 GB. 8 minutes:  Align Selected Layers Based On Content begins.  RAM 27 GB, scratch 33 GB. 19 minutes:  Aligning Layer IMG_xxxx.CR2 begins.  RAM 28 GB, scratch 34 GB. 20 minutes:  Aligning Layer continues, RAM 31 GB, scratch 38 GB. 25 minutes:  Aligning Layer continues, RAM 43 GB, scratch 57 GB. 29 minutes:  Generate Output Panorama begins.  RAM 46 GB, scratch 104 GB. 31 minutes:  Move steps appear in History.  RAM 47 GB, scratch 122 GB. 32 minutes:  Canvas Size begins.  RAM 47 GB, scratch 123 GB. 34 minutes:  Blend Selected Layers Based on Content begins.  RAM 47 GB, scratch 124 GB. 39 minutes:  Panorama completed.  RAM 46 GB, scratch 111 GB (in 3 files). As you can derive from the above, at about 29 minutes, it would have been beneficial to have even more RAM. Notes: On a multi-core machine Camera Raw is quicker to convert the files first, as it multi-threads.  I should have done the stitch as a two-step process for better speed.  That would have cut the first 8 minutes in half at least. Converting to 8 bits/channel instead of 16 would have yielded half-sized data and probably sped up the process significantly, perhaps keeping Photoshop from going heavily into the scratch files. Final pano was about 42000 x 15000 pixels (a mere 630 MP). -Noel Was your system as bright and hot as the sun while processing?  xD Noel's long story short: Don't do it unless you can.  lol ... View more

I was actually thinking out loud but I'm glad you responded. I was just thinking that at such a large size it'd make more sense to lower the DPI (and be more merciful on the system used). lol That doesn't sound too bad, regardless; more reasonable. It's not 100 images anyway. I'd probably gauge my eyes out if I had to do that many manually. xD Sweet image of the moon. Did you take those in a quick succession? I ask because the moon moves so fast when zoomed. ... View more

I ask as an enthusiast: Why work on a panorama that big anyway? Is the plan to print out a huge 300 DPI mural..? What's the size at that DPI? Like 6 feet high, at least? Isn't that overkill? ... View more

I'm trying to repro this but no matter what, PS CC 2014 opens on the last monitor I had it maximized or restored down on. (I have a dual monitor setup using a GeForce GTX 650 using its dual DVI ports and the latest drivers (v. 344.11 as of this post).) ... View more