Learn Adobe Photoshop - Preferences Quick Start Guide
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In this video, Mahalo expert Gene Shaw outlines some of the important options you'll want to have enabled in Photoshop before you begin working.
Preferences Quick Start Guide
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In this Preferences Quick Start Guide, you will learn the most important settings to change inside Photoshop to improve its performance. Later in the Preferences section, you will learn in depth how these functions affect your computer.
Export Clipboard will basically save any information you're cutting or copying in Photoshop to RAM and make it available to other programs. Turn this option on or off at your discretion, depending on how much RAM you wish to dedicate to Photoshop.
Save As to Original Folder controls where you save your documents. Do you want to save what you create in the same folder as the document you opened came from? Or do you want to save each file you create in a new place? Check or uncheck at your discretion.
Under the drop-down menu Maximize PSD and PSB File Compatibility, you may want to leave this on Ask because there are times you may want to use what you save on Photoshop with other programs that require maximum quality. When you maximize, Photoshop saves your layered image along with a flattened version of the same image. This can take up a lot of space on your hard drive, however, so there may be times when you don't wan't to maximize. Again, use this at your discretion.
In the Recent File List Contains field, enter 20. This allows you to see the 20 most recent files you've opened in Photoshop when you click File -- Open Recent.
Most of this stuff you'll want to leave it exactly as it stand. Make sure you can see your Detected Video Card and make sure Enable OpenGL Drawing is checked. This allows your video card to pick up some of the rendering work so your processor is freed up to do other things. Also, Tall and Thin is good to use for web work, or when you're working with many layers. Big and Flat is good when you're using a high-resolution image and you're working with only a few layers. Default is fine, but choose the other two accordingly.
Change the Rulers option in the drop-down menu to pixels.
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