How Do I Give Photoshop More Memory?

Giving Photoshop more memory will involve closing other running programs on your computer.

I'm going to tell you basically how to give Photoshop more RAM in a sense. We're going to free up free used RAM in your computer so that Photoshop can then use it to run more efficiently. When you're creating a Photoshop document, editing photos, things like that, you tend to create lots of different layers, and comes, it becomes sort of RAM intensive, and starts sucking up energy, we need to give it more. So I'm going to show you how to do that in some simple steps. So let's take the picture that I have here. A picture of me, I've created a little graphic there, it's very basic, I just want to walk through a couple of steps that you would do to sort of simplify things and make your RAM run more efficiently. So, if we have lots of layers that don't necessarily need to be separate layers, you want to combine them. First easy step is just, you select the layer, hold down shift, select another layer, and combine them, and command+ e will combine them. Another thing is if you have shapes, random shapes that are still not rasterized, you'll want to rasterized those shapes, so I have this star here, or another way to do that is to merge down into a different, into a different layer, but let's rasterized this layer. Now it's still its own, but it's much less sort of big, it's much less of a, a RAM hog now. So, and if we take other files that let's say have some, let's say they have some effects on them, like the shadow, right? If we have a shadow effect, you want to try and get rid of all the effects, and just merge them down into actual images. So if you had lots of layers that had effects like this one now has on it, you would want to select that, and go to right-click, and do merge down into a different layer that, so now it would combine the images. The graphic is still there, the effect is still there, but it no longer is an effect that's sort of intensive, holding all the information that doesn't need to be in there, which are all the other things other than the graphic itself. Other things that you can do, very important, most important I would say in the whole process is close out other programs. You have Excel open, shut it down. Power Point shut it down. Just close out all of your other programs. If you want Photoshop to run efficiently, only have Photoshop open. And so those are the basic steps to sort of, you know, freeing up the RAM that you could have using for Photoshop by closing out other things and making Photoshop more efficient. I hope that helped thanks.