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Application Setup

You are browsing the 'Application Setup' content. If you want to work in Photoshop, you should always start by understanding and setting up your preferences and other application options correctly.


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Making the most of your Photoshop scratch disk

You can never have enough RAM for Photoshop and when that runs out it falls back on your hard drive to store data in. This is much slower than RAM – but there are ways to make this work as efficiently as possible.



Application Setup

Making Photoshop run faster

Both hard drives and RAM have got very cheap over the last few years – gone are the days when ad agencies would get broken into and all the RAM was stolen out of the Macs (aka a RAM raid)!




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