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Photoshop CS2 Performance Issues—Could It Be Your Video Card?

Is the performance of Photoshop CS2 worse than CS1? Some users out there are saying yes, particularly in Windows. What do these performance woes look like? Well, for one, Photoshop CS2 can take a long time to open files. You may also experience significant redraw problems, with files that worked just fine in CS1, rendering CS2 just about unusable.

Though the culprit has yet to be smoked out, the primary suspect is video card support. These performance and redraw problems are thought to be caused by an incompatibility between older video cards with either built-in memory or less than 128MB of RAM. Also, the code that deals with the user interface was changed for CS2. Adobe is still trying to pinpoint the exact cause of these performance problems. If you are also experiencing performance issues, you might want to try either updating your video card to the latest drivers or, worse case scenario, buy a completely new video card. Contact technical support for recommendations or keep an eye on Adobe's web site. You can also read more here:

http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/[email protected]@.3bba6ade

BIGGER Tiles in Photoshop CS2

Photoshop CS2 ships with a new plug-in installed, but it's not used until you say it should be. The plug-in is called 'Bigger Tiles.' The Bigger Tiles plug-in is installed in the Extensions folder, within the Adobe Photoshop Only Plug-Ins folder that lives in the Adobe Photoshop CS2 folder. To activate the plug-in, simply remove the '~' from the beginning of its name. This is actually a trick you can use to disable/enable any Photoshop plug-in (put a '~' at the beginning of the plug-in file name). WHAT DOES IT DO? The Bigger Tiles plug-in allows Photoshop to process image data in larger chunks. With the plug-in enabled, the overall time to complete many operations is reduced, especially on computers with lots of RAM (more than 1 GB). Bigger Tiles can also reduce the responsiveness of the application under some circumstances.

Using the Lens Correction Filter in CS2

Here is a cool tutorial posted by Colin Smith on how to use the Lens Correction Filter in Photoshop CS2:  http://www.graphics.com/modules.php?name=Sections&op=viewarticle&artid=207

Photoshop CS2 (9.0) leaked - sneak peek

Cached on Google:  http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:ikpkIo53mrMJ:www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/200404/040405Photoshop.html+Photoshop+CS2&hl=en

On Slashdot.com: http://it.slashdot.org/it/05/03/28/1413236.shtml?tid=152&tid=164

Crash when using Motion Blur?

If you experience occasional crashes in Photoshop, while trying to apply a Motion Blur, you're not alone. Here is a lengthy thread on Adobe's User to User Forum with one possible suggested fix, offered up by Adobe's own Chris Cox. He says, “You can try disabling the AltiVecCore plugin and see if that solves it.” Check out the juicy details here: http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/[email protected]@.3bb5a616

Can't Save for Web, Error: “File not Found”

This problem has to do with the “Preview in Default Browser” setting in the Save For Web dialog. Here is one user's solution:

In Photoshop's “Save for Web” dialog, at the bottom right (to the left of the “Edit in ImageReady” button) is a drop-down “Select Browser” menu. It's one of those things most people don't normally pay any attention to. If left as the default, with no browsers in the list, I have the problem previously described. Once I put Firefox in that list (whether I make it the default previewer or not) my problems are solved. I would guess it's because I don't have the Firefox application in the main Applications directory with the other browsers and Photoshop wasn't able to locate the application on its own.

More details at: http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/[email protected]@.3bb830b2

Yet another way to covert to Black and White

In addition to converting your color images to Black and White by changing your color mode to Greyscale or by using the Channel mixer (PS only), here is yet another technique you might like to explore.

• Open a color image
• In the layers palette, click on the ‘Create adjustment layer’ (PSE) icon or ‘Create new fill or adjustment layer’ (PS) icon and select Gradient Map.
• From here you can choose among a number of different gradients, choose the 'Black,White' gradient.
• Bam, there you have it, a dynamic Black and White image. If it doesn't look right, you can try clicking the Reverse checkbox, changing the blend mode, or reducing the opacity in the Layers palette.

Photoshop CS for Nature Photographers

From Color Management to using Camera Raw. From customizing your keyboard shortcuts to automating output options. From using Curves to Proofing images. This document, created by Adobe's Julieanne Kost for North American Nature Photographers Association-2005, contains a lot of great information. Enjoy! http://www.adobeevangelists.com/pdfs/nanpa2005.pdf

Using Photoshop with Networks & Removable media

If you work with Photoshop in conjunction with a network or removable media, here is a great link with some very useful suggestions and tips for troubleshooting: http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/322391.html

Using Metadata in Photoshop CS

Here is a great tutorial on how to edit and manipulate the Metadata of your images using the File Browser in Photoshop CS. The tutorial will also show you how to create a Metadata Template that contains your copyright info and batch apply it to a bunch of your images. http://www.adobe.com/tips/phs8metadata/main.html