Comments on: SF PUG Thursday: Optimizing Photoshop performance

By: Jeffrey Tranberry

Jeffrey Tranberry — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:25:44 +0000

Here's Adam's PDF on the subject: http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2008/04/notes_on_tuning.html I would not miss this session if I could help it. You have questions, Adam's the man with the answers.

By: Jeffrey Phillips

Jeffrey Phillips — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:18:36 +0000

+1 to John’s comments. The SF PUG is yet another reason to be jealous of those living in SF. In adition to John’s comments I would also like to know the best practices for installed/current photoshop preferences, OS preferences, hardware RAM, Video Card additions and/or settings. The links in the post refer to suggestions from 2007. Things are probably different now with OS X 10.6.2/Windows 7. Just add these requests to the rest of the pile – you seem to have a lot going on…

By: John Hoffman

John Hoffman — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:51:21 +0000

This sounds like a very interesting program. Unfortunately, many of your readers live too far from the Bay area to attend.
Would it be possible for Mr. Jerugim to put some or all of his thoughts in a guest column on your blog or elsewhere on Adobe’s website? In particular, I am interested in his thoughts on appropriate hardware for running PS and other Adobe applications. There is much advice available on building low, medium and high end computer systems, and on computers for gaming (usually using the latest and most expensive video card) but it is hard to find much on what is needed to maximize performance for Adobe Creative Suite applications (other than the need for a fast scratch disk). With the graphics card potentially being one of the most expensive parts of a computer, advice on what type of graphics card will maximize performance on the Adobe apps without wasting money would be particularly appreciated.