Laila Posted December 3, 2016 Share Posted December 3, 2016 I have a Mac desktop running OS X El Capitan and Photoshop CC. It is over 2 years old, and has 24GB of RAM. Its hard drive has 285.33GB free out of 999.35GB. The last time I shut down was more than 24 hours ago. I have never run a cleanup program. I am trying to edit several images in photoshop. I need to add snow (in multiple layers) to all of the files, but it's creating huge files that are slowing my computer down and causing photoshop to freak the f out. I don't want to flatten in the files in case I need to make additional adjustments, but I am finding it difficult to so anything since they won't even save. Should I be editing the jpeg files instead? What am I doing wrong? HELP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicole Posted December 3, 2016 Share Posted December 3, 2016 Hi Laila, how many files do you have open in PS? Are the files 8bit or 16bit? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laila Posted December 5, 2016 Author Share Posted December 5, 2016 10-15 files in 16-bit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damien Symonds Posted December 5, 2016 Share Posted December 5, 2016 Yep, that's the problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laila Posted December 5, 2016 Author Share Posted December 5, 2016 I figured. I'm not sure how to create manageable working files to edit. I'm currently working on the raw files adjusted first in LR then opening straight from LR to edit in PS. If you can recommend one of your classes that you feel would help me with this, I am all ears! Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damien Symonds Posted December 5, 2016 Share Posted December 5, 2016 Well, the first step is to stop working in 16-bit. http://www.damiensymonds.net/color-space-settings-for-the-lightroom-user.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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