12-13-2005, 01:35 PM
One tip I can offer is make sure you have plenty of ram allocated to photoshop, it is a ram hungry program. This is done through the preferences pane under memory and image cache. Allocate if you can at least 50% of your system ram to photoshop without compromising you Operating Systems ram allocation. If you can also make sure you have a hard disk allocated to photoshop as a scratch disk. Scratch disks are used to store temporary file data while you are working on images. Note that by default photoshop automatically selects your main hard drive as a scratch disk. This is not good, as photoshop constantly writes to scratch disks and can cause file fragmentation on drives with other data on them. If you have an extra drive that you can partition into in 4 drives, make them into 2 to 4 GB in size and than allocate them to photoshop in the preferences pane under scratch disks.