How to Troubleshoot a Photoshop Freeze
Adobe Photoshop is a highly useful and powerful photo editing and graphics creation tool, but it does have limitations. Many of these are related to the nature of the images made with it and how powerful your computer happens to be. Images in Photoshop are based on pixels, meaning that the entire image is made up of thousands or hundreds of thousands of dots, the characteristics of each of which must be stored in the computer's RAM. If the image is enormous or your computer has limited RAM, you might find that Photoshop will freeze up in mid-step, perhaps popping up a warning about the memory being low. Fortunately, there are ways to address this issue if it crops up.
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Select "image" from the menu and choose "image size." In the dialog that appears, examine the pixel "width" and "height" of your document. If it is larger than you need, change the "interpolation" to "bicubic sharper" and reduce these numbers. This will reduce the file size of the image and the strain it places on your computer's RAM.
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Look at the "resolution" of the image. If you are going to be placing the image on the Internet, it does not need to be higher than 72 pixels per inch. If you are printing it, you do not need more than 300 pixels per inch. Click "OK."
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Select "edit" from the menu and choose "purge." From the options, choose the one you want to use. "Undo" will remove the last undo from memory. "Clipboard" frees up the clipboard memory. "History" removes Photoshop storage of the steps you have taken in the document. "All" gets rid of these all at once, though you may want to perform these steps one at a time instead.
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