Way to speed up Photoshop and Photoshop Elements

[swimmom]

This was posted on one of the forums at photoshopelements user.

This tip is for speeding up Photoshop but it works for Elements also.Disable the Detect Watermark plug-in (Digimarc). Photoshop loads quicker and your pictures will open faster. This tip is straight from Adobe's official support knowledge database in their Support Knowledgebase Document 318243.

From the Adobe KB:

Using the Detect Watermark plug-in

Photoshop includes the Detect Watermark (Digiopen.8be), Embed Watermark (Digisign.8bf), and Read Watermark (Digiread.8bf) digital watermarking plug-ins, created by Digimarc Corporation. The optional Detect Watermark plug-in scans each image you open for a digital watermark, which increases the time it takes for Photoshop to open the file. When the plug-in detects a watermark, it puts a copyright symbol on the image window's title bar. You can find the source of the image by choosing Filter > Digimarc > Read Watermark.

To disable the Detect Watermark plug-in, locate the Digimarc folder in the Photoshop/Plug-Ins folder, and add a tilde (~) to the beginning of the folder name (for example, ~Digimarc).

[mimsmom]

Just did it- thanks for the tip!!!

[Rona]

thank you! hopefully this'll get better! :)

[RatherBscrappin]

Thought I'd try it too ... thanks! :D

[vshaw]

Well who would have thought? I thought that the more I had in my elements catalog the longer it took. I'm going to do that later when I go do some layouts.

[Keely~B]

Thanks!!

[drgnfly]

Thank you for the great tip. Anything that can help speed up Photoshop is valuable information to me! :)

[lesliereid]

Thanks so much for passing this on. For anyone else who might have to search for the ~ key, it's left of the 1/! key.

[vshaw]

It really helps it does go faster especially in my Elements program. Oh and the ~ key is left of the space bar on my laptop in case anyone is like me and spends 5 minutes looking for what was literally under my nose. :lol: :oops:

[grandmalynnie]

Oh my gosh! I can't believe how much quicker this makes my PSE 4.0! This is one of the best tips I ever got! Thank you! Thank you!

[~Julie~]

thank you!!

[CathyRose]

That is a terrific tip, thanks for sharing that. What a difference it makes!

[Debbie McKenzie]

Thank you so much for the tip.

[Chey]

Thanks for the tip! Love anything that will speed up PS. :)

[Rae]

Thanks so much for the tip! Going to go give it a try.

[Maisie]

Awesome!
Thank you!

[Lori K]

Just did it thanks for the tip. It did seem to make pse load faster.

[hwdigitalelements]

Thanks for posting this tip!

[Sunshine06]

WOW - that cut loading time in half for my PSE4. Thanks so much for sharing! :D

[limabean]

Wow! Do you mind if I post this information over at our forums at 2B?

[swimmom]

No I don't mind at all- I found it on the board at photoshopelementsuser and the info is from Adobe.

I'm happy to have found something that benefits so many of us!

[toodlesyall]

Love this tip! Thanks so much!

[NishaM]

thanks so much - Nisha

[SharonD]

Way cool....we just did it on both of our computers! Thanks so much....

[shazzt]

Oh thanks!! Very cool tip :-)

[LDesjardin]

Groovy! thanks for sharing. Awesome tip.

[craftycon]

Went to my plug-in folder, but it doesn't let me type anything in the front of Digimarc. Do you delete the word and than retype it in with the ~ in front of it?

[shelleyrae]

What a great tip! Thanks
Photoshop Users might want to check out thsi article also which tells you how to set up your preferences to get the best performance from Photoshop for your machine
http://scrapbook-bytes.com/cgi-script/tutorials/publish/article_536.shtml

[dodkalm83]

Wow.... it opened right away.... thanks for the tip!

[sunnie2004]

Ok anyone know where this is in PSE5 been looking for his watermark but cant find it

caren
thanks

[Barb Speck]

I did this a long time ago and didn't make much of a difference.

[Hummie]

I use the tilde all the time for temporarily disabling my other filters and layer styles, but I never thought to look for this one I never use. Thanks for the tip!

[Hummie]

Right click on the file name and choose 'rename" and put the tilde at the beginning of the file name.
Went to my plug-in folder, but it doesn't let me type anything in the front of Digimarc. Do you delete the word and than retype it in with the ~ in front of it?

[Miss Chris]

PSE 5.0 really did seem to load faster! Also thanks to those who posted where the tilde is. I would have spent a long time looking for that one!:lol

Chris

[Sulis]

Thanks - I'll try it!