How to speed up Elements?

[sanarita]

Ae there any tips out there for speeding up the opening of Elements? I remember seeing something like that in this forum once, but I can't recover the thread. Thanks, Helen

[jlwilm]

You dont mention what version of Elements you are running or which Operating System, but for Windows XP/Vista the most common thing is RAM memory.

Elements benefits enormously from having more - lots more than the minimum and it needs to be propery configured in the Editor - Edit, Preferences, Memory and Image Cache.

I set the maximum value for Elements to use at 80% which giver it 1350MB space to play in. I think Elements advertises Windows XP as 256MB RAM minimum and 512 recommended and Windows Vista 512/1024MB. Personally, 512 barely gets it going.

Any other applications you are running will most likely benefit from the additional memory also and memory has never been more economical to buy.

[Wendy]

Hi Sanrita ...

I'm pretty sure it was to do with turning something off but I can't find the link ... hopefully one of the others will have it bookmarked :)

Wendy

[TonyW]

There have been suggestions about turning off the Digimarc filter like this one:

http://www.photoshopelementsuser.com/forum/showthread.php?t=22557&highlight=digimarc

But I've never really had an opening problem - mine is always very fast (PSE5 Editor opens in roughly 10 secs). I did try turning off the Digimarc filter once but that didn't change anything.

Tony

[Bayla]

I'm pretty sure it was to do with turning something off but I can't find the link ... hopefully one of the others will have it bookmarked :)



I'm pretty sure that Barbara Brundage suggested disabling/turning off the Photo Downloader.

Bayla

EDIT: Just found this thread that I had bookmarked:

http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2005/03/30/PE3forWindows.html

[RobertSchuldenfrei]

Hi John,

Thanks for the tip about cache memory. The default on mine is 55%. I almost never use any other program when I use PSE. I have been telling people that PSE is a RAM hog and buy as much RAM as you can afford. I have 2 GB on my Windows Vista system and I consider that a minimum. So, taking your advice I am going to up the cache to 80%.

Cheers,

Bob

[sanarita]

In case it helps to find a specific tip, I am talking about PSE5 on a Windows XP OS, with 1 gig of RAM.

Thanks for the info very much! It will come in handy! Helen

[efarnstrom]

Ae there any tips out there for speeding up the opening of Elements? I remember seeing something like that in this forum once, but I can't recover the thread. Thanks, Helen

Could this be the one you were looking for? http://www.photoshopelementsuser.com/forum/showthread.php?t=20378
I mentioned there to turn off the 'watched folders' file in message #9.

Good luck!

[efarnstrom]

Elements benefits enormously from having more - lots more than the minimum and it needs to be propery configured in the Editor - Edit, Preferences, Memory and Image Cache.

I set the maximum value for Elements to use at 80% which giver it 1350MB space to play in. I think Elements advertises Windows XP as 256MB RAM minimum and 512 recommended and Windows Vista 512/1024MB. Personally, 512 barely gets it going.

Many thanks for this suggestion. This should be in bright letters so everyone can see it. I have v5 with about 21000 photos in the catalog. It has been taking several minutes to load, even after reconnecting images often.

Since I have 4GB RAM, I thought this should be faster. I never knew there was a limit on percent used. I changed the max from the 55% standard to 80% as you suggested. Now the program opened into the catalog in 20 seconds! Wahooo.

[Alfi]

http://www.photoshopelementsuser.com/forum/showthread.php?t=9220&highlight=program+loading

[TonyW]

http://www.photoshopelementsuser.com/forum/showthread.php?t=9220&highlight=program+loading

Interesting - I hadn't seen that so I did a quick Google and came up with this:

http://www.edbott.com/weblog/archives/000621.html

Which suggests that prefetch speeding things up is an urban legend. Of course that could be a myth too but I rather suspect it isn't.

Tony

[jlwilm]

If youve got it, USE IT!

Giddy Up!

Yahoo o o o!