Forums > Digital Art and Retouching > Photoshop CC Seems a Bit Slow

Photographer

Perry Van Dongen

Posts: 89

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

Has anyone else noticed that Photoshop CC seems to be a bit slower than CS6?

I've been on Adobe's Cloud now for over a year and I've been using Photoshop CS6 among other programs. When the new application manager was released I was one of the ones that couldn't install it so I left it until Adobe fixed the problem. Last week I tried installing it again and it seemed to work fine. After installing it I noticed that there were several new CC versions of their main programs so I installed Photoshop CC. It doesn't seem all that much different than CS6 and I think it's main feature (at the moment) is that it syncs all my settings to the cloud.

I've noticed that it seems a lot less smooth now. When I pan around an image, there's a delay of at least a 1/2 second before the image moves. The healing brush icon size seems to change as I use it and various other tools seem to take a second before they do anything. I've still got CS6 installed and it's still working fine.

I was thinking it might have something to do with the sync feature but turning it off doesn't change anything. This happens both on my Mac and on my PC so I'm pretty sure it's not a hardware issue.

Over all it still works as good as it ever did but there are a few things that seem kind of buggy.

Is anyone else having issues?

Aug 06 13 10:42 pm Link

Photographer

inactive-dan

Posts: 260

Seattle, Washington, US

i'm running 64bit on pc, and it actually seems smoother and faster than cs6

Aug 07 13 12:09 am Link

Retoucher

Pictus

Posts: 1379

Teresópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

No...
I would update the video driver and after, reset Photoshop.

Aug 07 13 01:49 am Link

Artist/Painter

Augustine

Posts: 1153

Los Angeles, California, US

Perry Van Dongen wrote:
Is anyone else having issues?

Yes. It's hesitant ans sticky and a little weird.

Pictus wrote:
No...
I would update the video driver and after, reset Photoshop.

I'll try it.

Aug 07 13 01:14 pm Link

Artist/Painter

Augustine

Posts: 1153

Los Angeles, California, US

Seems better.

Definitely opens (even small) images faster. Not sure why that was taking so long.

Aug 07 13 01:45 pm Link

Photographer

Paul AI

Posts: 1046

Shawnee, Oklahoma, US

I'm running 64-bit on Windows 8 and it seems about the same, if not a little smoother than cs6

Aug 07 13 03:06 pm Link

Photographer

A_Nova_Photography

Posts: 8652

Winston-Salem, North Carolina, US

I'm finding it to be faster on both Windows 7 desktop and a OSX laptop... It's nice to finally be able to use both OS's without a license for each.

Aug 07 13 06:26 pm Link

Retoucher

Argiris Maipas

Posts: 43

Athens, Attikí, Greece

I did this old test http://clubofone.com/speedtest/
CC  is 15% faster

CS6 14sec and CC  12sec ,   

of course I don’t know if we can  say that CC is faster ,
it looks  smoother

Aug 07 13 10:46 pm Link

Retoucher

FLEXmero

Posts: 1001

Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Don't fool yourselves. CC is the same as CS6 but with a couple new plugins. Or you guys think they actually went and re-coded some of the already working stuff? Not a chance.

Aug 08 13 09:30 am Link

Photographer

Perry Van Dongen

Posts: 89

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

FLEXmanta wrote:
Don't fool yourselves. CC is the same as CS6 but with a couple new plugins. Or you guys think they actually went and re-coded some of the already working stuff? Not a chance.

I wasn't thinking it was coded differently, or better, but when Adobe first advertised the cloud versions they talked about how cloud members would get the new upgrades first. Up until recently I was noticing that we were getting them several days if not weeks after they were available on their website. Lightroom v5 took two and a half weeks to show up on my list. I was thinking the the new CC versions were going to fix that... not that it's a problem because I like stable releases rather than being the first person to have something.

I tried "resetting Photoshop" as mentioned by Pictus (used to be a common fix for Mac faults) but it didn't change anything. However after playing around for quite a while I found that my Wacom tablet was behaving funny. I only have one and I swap it between the Mac and PC depending on which one I'm using. I bought a new one and it's solved the problem. I needed... I mean I wanted an upgrade anyway. lol

Aug 09 13 01:23 am Link