The longer you use Adobe Photoshop and its plethora of tools and effects, the more likely you are to run into a scratch disk error. But don't panic: If you do ...

Will I get any performance gains by installing a second hard drive that's exclusively for Photoshop to use as a scratch disk? If I also set up that second hard drive to be the Windows swap file, will ...

Photoshop uses the hard drive that the operating system is installed on as the primary scratch disk by default. To allocate a different scratch disk you need to visit Photoshop's preferences: Edit > ...

When you’re ready to boost your Adobe Photoshop skills, try one of these features to work some magic with your images. We start with what to do when your Scratch Disk fills up, then dive right into ...

So I do some photo editing on my laptop. It has a decent HD. Seagate 100GB and has a gig of ram. I have an external 300GB 7200 rpm drive hooked up via USB2 most of the time and I'm wondering if it ...

Most people would prefer not to see the spinning beach ball when working in Photoshop. Although eliminating it is not always possible, you can go some way toward doing that by managing your resources ...

Adobe Photoshop allows extensive flexibility in digital image manipulation, and that flexibility comes at a cost. Your computer resources get a workout, since Photoshop uses both random access memory, ...