Damn, still relevant in 2021: at some point they made the brush paint without snapping with Windows Ink, which is great - but the eyedropper tool would still snap. And PSUserConfig.txt fix works even in Ps 2022, making the eyedropper butter-smooth!
I literally want to cry tears of joy. I have been working in Photoshop since CS, on Windows XP and whatever Mac OS was out at the time. I went through many frustrations with the input lag on Windows 8/10 and also discovered it was windows ink, but had the same issue with it making the stylus not work properly. I have been suffering with that initial stutter/snap from windows ink for a couple years now, and can't even believe how ridiculous it is to have to go through the process to get a NORMAL, smooth stroke, but thank you for passing this along. Windows really needs to build an elegant solution in considering how many users use wacom tablets or cintiqs.
I have been consulting this video for many year now. Every time I reseted or even changed pcs and stuff like that. This is a real public service. Big thank you for the video.
@@kinyascc was the "cunt" really necessary? Bro, I searched how to solve that thing for 2 days, I was getting frustrated, am I allowed to be excited and thank the person who solved it?
I CAN NEVER THANK YOU ENOUGH!!!!! I was going crazy and had already gone through all the steps of increasing Photoshop's memory and all that stuff everybody teaches in UA-cam! I was feeling hopeless till I watched your video!!! The lag is fixed! Thank you!! I feel like creating a thousands accounts to give your video a thousand likes :D
This little file was the final piece in a long day of awful Wacom troubleshooting on my new win 10 system. Others had parts of the solution, but your dry delivery geared toward weary, wary artists helped me face the final step. THANKS! Also love your editing - thanks for making this pc surgery enjoyable.
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! THIS FIXED THE PROBLEM FOR WINDOWS INK!!! I was so annoyed for awhile just using the pen tool would cause the system to lag and this really fixed it, bless you man! You deserve more subscribers!!
I'm using CC 2020 and was experiencing a LOT of lag. I tried everything to no avail until I did the txt file trick which worked a charm. Glad to know it still works for the newes version :D thanks a bunch
This week I just upgraded from Windows 7 to Windows 10 and from Photoshop CS5 to Photoshop CC... and the delay (which I didn't have before) was driving me insane! The WinTab file made ALL the difference! Thank you for this video. It still is of great use today!
This video really helped me, right after a recent windows update my tablet wasn't working properly in Photoshop, with this video I can actually get back to work. Thanks my Man.
HOLY SHIT, dude the txt file completely fixed my brush lag. you are my hero. thank you so much for putting the time into making this video, it means a lot and you have made using PS so much better for me man. agh! thank you dude!
you prabably can make Photoshop use WindowsINK again by changing the "UseSystemStylus 0" to "UseSystemStylus 1" in the text file, instead of deleting it. Photoshop stores most if not all settings on Windows Registry for loading faster, so when you remove the text file it still load this setting from Windows Registry.
for 50 a month and over 20+ years of software developing, employing some of the best minds in the world, there really shouldn't be any lag. I mean, really. Thanks for the tutorial/
Almost, in a fit of frustration, I bought a new tablet because I thought the reason was my old Wacom Bamboo Fun white. Now the tablet works amazingly! Thank you with all my heart for this beautiful guide!
My friend, thank you so much! I was almost reaching my breaking point and ready to give up until I saw your video, you're a lifesaver, I can't find the words to thank you 😂🙌
thank you so much for this - fixed the problem with the latest bug between Photoshop and Windows, where using the brush on a layer caused the pen to act as the Move tool.
Hey! Your WinTab solution for lag just solved one of the most annoying Wacom/MS bugs that's currently showing up (using any tool with a stylus works as if you're using the hand tool). Thanks for that! Cheers
Thank you dude! for anyone using windows 10 and the new Cintiq Pro 13/16 who might be having lag, the txt file will fix this! Before I was having lag of several seconds using Shift Key to draw straight lines, now I can draw them fast again.
Thanx a lot !!!! You just saved me 2000 euro on spending money for a new pc. My big brushes were lagging on a i5 3500 MHZ. You just gave me the ultimate tips on speeding up my brushes. Best wishes from a collegue ;)
FINALLY - THANK YOU thank you. I fixed the pen lag when I first installed Photoshop, found a solution somewhere on the PS forum (don't remember exactly what, but it was in controls panel somewhere). But one thing that never got fixed was an issue when changing at of the tool sliders by clicking on the label and then move the pen. E.g. if Opacity is at 100% then if I drag the opacity value down, then it would jump right back to 100% when lift the pen. Only if I drag the value, then drag the pen down before lifting it would it stick. The PSUserSetting fix FINALLY took care of this - so THANK YOU once again
Thank you so much! The WinTab option saved me from the last Windows update that was causing my brushstrokes to move the canvas instead of drawing. Just a huge THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!
The cash trick works well. I also set the prriority in taskmanager in the detial tab for the wacom.exe to realtime. and that also gives a improvement to performance.
Had to give up on painting on Photoshop because of the crappy graphic card, so I usually only use it to add some additional touches like lighting and stuffs for the finished drawings made on programs like Sai. Followed adobe's instructions on how to fix the lag, like changing the performance to basic, and it still didn't work. That's till I saw your video and do evertything you said. It totally works like charm!! I can't believe that I can finally draw on Photoshop now without the constant rage from lagging brush xD Anyway, thank you so much!! xxx Edit: I guess I spoke too soon. This method makes the brush doesn't lag as much as before, but it only works for certain brushes, in my case. Some of my brushes (and borodante's free brushes too) still lags alot , even after using this method. Tried to change the spacing, and still lagging. Really hope anyone could tell me how to totally fix the freaking lag OTL OTL
hey guys [ UPDATE ON AUG 25 2018 ] tweaking these settings can decrease your photoshop performance but doesnt help with the lag. It's simple. Just select the brush you use or the brushes you use. > go to the brush setting. > There you would find all the brush settings as shaping dynamics and such things.> find the SMOOTHING option and > just uncheck it. solves the problem right away. if you still need both smoothing and no lag i would suggest to practice more on your digital art without software smoothing.
When I disable Windows Ink It changes ges the function of the eraser on Wacom Pen. It would work the same as the tip, painting/selecting/ etc. So I leave it on so I can use thr eraser on the pen. I don't like having to alternate between pressing E to eraser and B to paint again. If I can fix or still use eraser on pen as intended with Windows Ink off, I'd turn it off.
I wish I could do some of these things to Krita. Running PS in virtualbox is still faster... And for people who really want to save the tiny steps in their brushes, you can do the main blocking in with a small canvas of the proper ratio and scale it up later for the details instead.
Bless you... I never had this problem in CS6 but I upgraded to CC recently and it was supper laggy. The windows Ink thing was the fix. Thank you so much I've been looking for a solution everywhere...thank you -sobs-
Ho man you save me, I have applied your hints, and no lag with Photoshop CC 2018 on my Wacom Cintiq Companion 1, under Windows 8.1 :everything is working perfectly, you are a genius ! Thank you very much, and also for your advices about brush spacing, etc 😊
Thank you so so much. I was so frustrated by the update disabling my ability to draw on my Cintiq, and your humor and clear explanation not only solved my problem, but really turned my mood and experience around. Thank you thank you thank you!!
for some reason I didnt notice that my softness brush preset was turned on and I thought that was lagging. Altought it I solved the annoying issue that appears a loading circle, or "alt", or just a bug when I try to change the size of the brush by pressing alt+middle mouse btn+drag. Txs!
Yes I did, you replace WinTab with the name of your tablet's own driver, I can't check my file right now but I remember I checked the name the driver has in the task manager, something like "wacomdriver" or "Wtablet"
It worked for me but recently I have this problem that every tool that I select with my stylus doesn't work and photoshop detects it as if it was the eraser tool :( can someone help me with this?
Thank you so so sooo much!!! This tip - about a text file - just saved me! It also solves another bug (which spoiled my life and was just making me nuts, so that I stopped drawing on a tablet for several months): Windows-Ink doesn't allow you to resize the brush through "alt", for some reason.
The cache changes helped solve my brush lag, thank you very much for the video. Really well explained, succinctly, and clearly - I really appreciate it.
OMG Thank you so much! I'm changed my Windows to 10 and I was having this annoying problem with the Liquify, and I wasn't finding anything on Google, you're my savior, thank you a lot!
wow i might need to try all this one day when i have alot more work to do in photoshop , im very glad ive been drawing all my life manually irl though , because i dont have to worry about any of this , learn to draw irl yall
I saw the same fix on another video a while back, but great work sharing it dude. i have a little bug after the fix where i go to select a new brush and for the first stroke- opacity and shape dynamics doesnt work, but I found if i make my first brushstroke off my canvas with that newly selected brush i can paint normally on the canvas then afterwards. its a little annoying to begin with but after a while it becomes natural, I liken it to when you paint in real life and you dip your brush into the paint - you always wipe a bit off afterwards! Anyway just in case someone runs into the same problem as me i hope this helps!
Thank you, oh lord and savior Borodante! I struggle with PS performance issues all the time. The WinTabs thing I already knew about, but you did help to understand some of the Photoshop settings. WinTab is the pen input API that Wacom uses. Windows Ink is a piece of crap and just gets in the way, so I really recommend switching to WinTab, at least for Wacom users. I can't speak on other tablet manufacturers because, well, I've never used anything besides Wacom. Wacom's drivers are notoriously buggy, as well, so sometimes it can be helpful to just backup and restore Wacom preferences with the preferences utility; doing so reinitializes the tablet driver. Also, for ordinary Wacom tablet users (like myself), if you have the wireless accessory, try using the tablet on a USB connection and removing the wireless accessory. The wireless accessory was nothing but frustration for me; it wouldn't initialize the Wacom driver at system startup, it started disconnecting randomly after a couple years of use, the battery charge icon didn't always appear in the system tray... The wireless dongle would also cause my computer to take astronomical amounts of time to even begin booting Windows for some unknown reason which even Wacom was unable to figure out. I'm not the only one who has had the issue, either, so it's certainly not an isolated incident. As a side note, Borodante... I really wish my pen was tilt-capable. It's such a pain working with a statically rotated brush and having to rotate it manually. :/ If I could afford it, I'd have a Cintiq in addition to my Pen & Touch tablet.
Hi, Daniel! I have this lag with liquify you are talking about in video (at 8:40) I tried everything so far, reinstalled windows, tried 7,8 and 10 version, all soft and all drivers for photoshop and wacom intuos pro, used all tricks including yours, and still have this lag... please tell me if you have any other ideas how to get rid of it, as it is driving me crazy.. I can't work becaus of it.. the only thing helps is turning off "use graphics processor" but then.. all perfomance is not so great.. but this thing completely turnoff this lag, do yo have any ideas what the problem is... p.s. I even upgraded my hardware, got new video card + ssd disk and made some tests of ram memory to be sure everything is ok with it .. and professionals say everything is great with hardware, and actually it worked great for me before I decided to reinstall windows.. but now, I'm trying for 10 days in a row to fix this problem from early morning till late night and can't find any solution that could help me. please please please!!! maybe you have some ideas... !! will be greatful for any ideas! here is a video from my screen with this lag in liquify ua-cam.com/video/g5y-a32wpqE/v-deo.html
Really nice trick to make Photoshop faster without Turning OFF the GPU... The first setting you mentioned about setting the cache to the minimum worked wonders for me!! :D I couldn't even work smoothly in 4096x4096 resolution with 300dpi, but now I can!! :D but the 2nd Windows Ink setting and the PSConfig file didn't work for me very well, instead it made the strokes that I drew much more laggy than before, so I discarded the PSConfig file and Turned ON Windows Ink. I am using Photoshop 2021 on latest Windows 10 with 2GB AMD Radeon Graphics on a Mid 2015 Macbook Pro... with Wacom Intuos Pen Tab... so my setup is pretty underpowerful and outdated. But in any case, I think the 2020 and 2021 versions of Photoshop and Illustrator have many LAG problems which many people have reported... so we can't do much about it but to wait until its fixed. :) Photoshop 2019 works wonders even without all these optimizations. Guess I might switch to 2019 for now.
Dude - that Windows Ink setting in the Wacom - thank you. We'd been fighting with this issue for weeks and this is the first place I've seen the solution. Why does ADOBE not say this anywhere on any of their support?! At least no where I saw. Thanks so much.
What I have discovered is that the higher the resolution I work in, the bigger the brush size I need to use, meaning lag. So, I think I need to start working in a resolution that isn't too much but not a little.
Thank you so much, I've had this issue for so long and couldn't find fixes anywhere. For me it actually freezes up for seconds (sometimes 10s of seconds). Like once a minute, sometimes every few strokes. I would have to click on another program and go back to photoshop to unfreeze it or it would be still trying to catch up and making things even worse. It is insane that I had to find a fix for this! Either MS or Adobe should automatically have this under control because it literally destroys the experience of painting and it has taken many efforts looking on the internet for fixes before I came here. Both of them will say it isn't their problem. Thank you thank you thank you!
I had no issues with my tablet for the first few days.but now there is some weird lag.The stroke won't appear for a bit of time.,but once it starts to appear then it follows the brush easily.And also no issues in windows ink sketchpad or any other software.Also, I'm on a 1080 TI and an 8 core CPU, am not gonna turn down any settings aftre paying thousands of dollars to geet the best..
There was a recent windows update that was really screwing with wacom and photoshop. Every time I tried to erase or use the brush it would just move the canvas around. Turning of windows ink this way solves the issue. Thanks :)
This worked! took care of the issue i was having with my PS canvas moving instead of pen stroke, as if using the moving/hand tool when trying to make a stroke. Windows ink was the issue, thank you so much for making this tutorial!
My photoshop was lagging and my settings were already at the lowest so I was starting to lose hope, but the real solution at the end worked wonders for me!
As the last update of PS v 21.2.2, pressure sensitivity doesn't works if you have the file and if you have deactivated the windows ink option in the tablet projection settings.
By telling Photoshop to use wintab (an older tablet driver for windows), you're setting up a default which sticks until you remove the command to use WinTab and re-enable ink.
Thanks for the advice, I also found that having several text layers with effects applied to them tends to make the program lag a bit too when using the brushes.
Damn, still relevant in 2021: at some point they made the brush paint without snapping with Windows Ink, which is great - but the eyedropper tool would still snap. And PSUserConfig.txt fix works even in Ps 2022, making the eyedropper butter-smooth!
I literally want to cry tears of joy. I have been working in Photoshop since CS, on Windows XP and whatever Mac OS was out at the time. I went through many frustrations with the input lag on Windows 8/10 and also discovered it was windows ink, but had the same issue with it making the stylus not work properly. I have been suffering with that initial stutter/snap from windows ink for a couple years now, and can't even believe how ridiculous it is to have to go through the process to get a NORMAL, smooth stroke, but thank you for passing this along. Windows really needs to build an elegant solution in considering how many users use wacom tablets or cintiqs.
I have been consulting this video for many year now. Every time I reseted or even changed pcs and stuff like that.
This is a real public service. Big thank you for the video.
OH MY GOD I'M GOING TO CRY
NO ONE, ABSOLUTELY *NO ONE* EVER MENTIONED THE WINDOWS INK THING, THANK YOU SO MUCH DUDE, YOU'RE A LIFE SAVER!!!
@@kinyascc was the "cunt" really necessary? Bro, I searched how to solve that thing for 2 days, I was getting frustrated, am I allowed to be excited and thank the person who solved it?
if only photoshop had a response time like paint tool sai.
That would be amazing, it's my dream.
exactly Sai tools is super fast
that's my wet dream omg
The reason why I still using SAI
Hide the rulers before you paint or use the stamp tool.
I CAN NEVER THANK YOU ENOUGH!!!!! I was going crazy and had already gone through all the steps of increasing Photoshop's memory and all that stuff everybody teaches in UA-cam! I was feeling hopeless till I watched your video!!! The lag is fixed! Thank you!! I feel like creating a thousands accounts to give your video a thousand likes :D
Me with an Nvidia 2080 ti 64 gigs of ram, and 2 core processors: *Paints line on small 5inch canvas*
Photoshop: Haha brush go....
tHIS IS LITERALLY ME, I HATE PHOTOSHOP DAMN
2 core processor
This little file was the final piece in a long day of awful Wacom troubleshooting on my new win 10 system. Others had parts of the solution, but your dry delivery geared toward weary, wary artists helped me face the final step. THANKS! Also love your editing - thanks for making this pc surgery enjoyable.
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! THIS FIXED THE PROBLEM FOR WINDOWS INK!!! I was so annoyed for awhile just using the pen tool would cause the system to lag and this really fixed it, bless you man! You deserve more subscribers!!
I'm using CC 2020 and was experiencing a LOT of lag. I tried everything to no avail until I did the txt file trick which worked a charm. Glad to know it still works for the newes version :D thanks a bunch
if my android device suddenly came to life and inherited a voice, this is exactly what I think it would sound like.
You're awesome.
This week I just upgraded from Windows 7 to Windows 10 and from Photoshop CS5 to Photoshop CC... and the delay (which I didn't have before) was driving me insane! The WinTab file made ALL the difference! Thank you for this video. It still is of great use today!
3 years after this video, this little .txt file helped my Coolorus recognize my stylus again. Thank you!
3 years on and this video is still a lifesaver. This should be on Adobe's website!
Absolutely saved the day my friend. Thank you so much. This has been a long battle. But finally got an improvement. Thanks again!!
This video really helped me, right after a recent windows update my tablet wasn't working properly in Photoshop, with this video I can actually get back to work. Thanks my Man.
Just fixed a problem with extreme lag on Huion H320M by using tip @ 10:10min.
Thank you so much!!!
HOLY SHIT, dude the txt file completely fixed my brush lag. you are my hero. thank you so much for putting the time into making this video, it means a lot and you have made using PS so much better for me man. agh! thank you dude!
you prabably can make Photoshop use WindowsINK again by changing the "UseSystemStylus 0" to "UseSystemStylus 1" in the text file, instead of deleting it.
Photoshop stores most if not all settings on Windows Registry for loading faster, so when you remove the text file it still load this setting from Windows Registry.
Your tutorial also helped me today after the latest Windows update. Now I think the settings work better than ever!
for 50 a month and over 20+ years of software developing, employing some of the best minds in the world, there really shouldn't be any lag. I mean, really. Thanks for the tutorial/
2024 and every adobe CS still cant solve this shit meanwhile you from 7 years ago gave us the solution. thanks
Almost, in a fit of frustration, I bought a new tablet because I thought the reason was my old Wacom Bamboo Fun white. Now the tablet works amazingly! Thank you with all my heart for this beautiful guide!
My friend, thank you so much!
I was almost reaching my breaking point and ready to give up until I saw your video, you're a lifesaver, I can't find the words to thank you 😂🙌
thank you so much for this - fixed the problem with the latest bug between Photoshop and Windows, where using the brush on a layer caused the pen to act as the Move tool.
I am a traditional artist dabbling into photoshop and I found your tutorial extremely helpful! Thank you!
Hey! Your WinTab solution for lag just solved one of the most annoying Wacom/MS bugs that's currently showing up (using any tool with a stylus works as if you're using the hand tool). Thanks for that! Cheers
I love you Borodante ! Liquify has never been usable since I have PS for like 6 or 7 months and now it does !!
Thank you dude! for anyone using windows 10 and the new Cintiq Pro 13/16 who might be having lag, the txt file will fix this! Before I was having lag of several seconds using Shift Key to draw straight lines, now I can draw them fast again.
Thanx a lot !!!! You just saved me 2000 euro on spending money for a new pc. My big brushes were lagging on a i5 3500 MHZ. You just gave me the ultimate tips on speeding up my brushes. Best wishes from a collegue ;)
really helpfull ive been stuggling cuz of my watercolor brush lag but it boosted to very smooth immidiately thx
FINALLY - THANK YOU thank you. I fixed the pen lag when I first installed Photoshop, found a solution somewhere on the PS forum (don't remember exactly what, but it was in controls panel somewhere). But one thing that never got fixed was an issue when changing at of the tool sliders by clicking on the label and then move the pen. E.g. if Opacity is at 100% then if I drag the opacity value down, then it would jump right back to 100% when lift the pen. Only if I drag the value, then drag the pen down before lifting it would it stick. The PSUserSetting fix FINALLY took care of this - so THANK YOU once again
Thank you so much! The WinTab option saved me from the last Windows update that was causing my brushstrokes to move the canvas instead of drawing. Just a huge THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!
You're doing the art Lord's work, sir
The cash trick works well. I also set the prriority in taskmanager in the detial tab for the wacom.exe to realtime. and that also gives a improvement to performance.
Had to give up on painting on Photoshop because of the crappy graphic card, so I usually only use it to add some additional touches like lighting and stuffs for the finished drawings made on programs like Sai. Followed adobe's instructions on how to fix the lag, like changing the performance to basic, and it still didn't work.
That's till I saw your video and do evertything you said. It totally works like charm!! I can't believe that I can finally draw on Photoshop now without the constant rage from lagging brush xD Anyway, thank you so much!! xxx
Edit:
I guess I spoke too soon. This method makes the brush doesn't lag as much as before, but it only works for certain brushes, in my case. Some of my brushes (and borodante's free brushes too) still lags alot , even after using this method. Tried to change the spacing, and still lagging. Really hope anyone could tell me how to totally fix the freaking lag OTL OTL
Sir, you're a genius! Your method solved a bunch of problems for me; lag, shortcuts, damn windows ink... congrats and thank you soooo very much!!
Man, you sound like a robot. Its a compliment by the way. You sound like a robot in a cool and interesting way, subbed!
hey guys [ UPDATE ON AUG 25 2018 ] tweaking these settings can decrease your photoshop performance but doesnt help with the lag. It's simple. Just select the brush you use or the brushes you use. > go to the brush setting. > There you would find all the brush settings as shaping dynamics and such things.> find the SMOOTHING option and > just uncheck it. solves the problem right away. if you still need both smoothing and no lag i would suggest to practice more on your digital art without software smoothing.
If you're on PC, turn your power settings to High Performance! It makes a big difference
When I disable Windows Ink It changes ges the function of the eraser on Wacom Pen. It would work the same as the tip, painting/selecting/ etc. So I leave it on so I can use thr eraser on the pen. I don't like having to alternate between pressing E to eraser and B to paint again. If I can fix or still use eraser on pen as intended with Windows Ink off, I'd turn it off.
Just updated to creative cloud 2017 and went through and updated it to the specs in this video. It's so much faster! Thanks a bunch!
I wish I could do some of these things to Krita. Running PS in virtualbox is still faster...
And for people who really want to save the tiny steps in their brushes, you can do the main blocking in with a small canvas of the proper ratio and scale it up later for the details instead.
You are my freaking Photoshop hero! Adobe has been driving me nuts ever since Windows ink! Subscribed!
Bless you... I never had this problem in CS6 but I upgraded to CC recently and it was supper laggy. The windows Ink thing was the fix. Thank you so much I've been looking for a solution everywhere...thank you -sobs-
Thank you so so so so SOOOOOO MUCH!!! THIS JUST MADE MY DAY!! I HATED THAT CIRCLE LAG THING!!!
OMG this still works in 2020 :D, you saved my life again thank you very much
Ho man you save me, I have applied your hints, and no lag with Photoshop CC 2018 on my Wacom Cintiq Companion 1, under Windows 8.1 :everything is working perfectly, you are a genius ! Thank you very much, and also for your advices about brush spacing, etc 😊
thank you so much, i spent like 5 or 6 hours trying to fix this and this helped
I have absolutely no idea how you figured this out, but THANK YOU SO FREAKING MUCH!
I can´t believe I worked so long without fixing this problem! thanks a lot man! Brilliant explanation
Thank you so so much. I was so frustrated by the update disabling my ability to draw on my Cintiq, and your humor and clear explanation not only solved my problem, but really turned my mood and experience around. Thank you thank you thank you!!
Thanks so much for these instructions and tips, very much appreciated.
for some reason I didnt notice that my softness brush preset was turned on and I thought that was lagging. Altought it I solved the annoying issue that appears a loading circle, or "alt", or just a bug when I try to change the size of the brush by pressing alt+middle mouse btn+drag. Txs!
ATTENTION: This no longer works for windows 10 as it doesn't have WinTab anymore, time for a new fix, both for cc 2017 and 2018
did you by any chance find a solution? Help Please
Yes I did, you replace WinTab with the name of your tablet's own driver, I can't check my file right now but I remember I checked the name the driver has in the task manager, something like "wacomdriver" or "Wtablet"
i check the details on my task manager, and there are only Wacom_tablet, Wacom_TabletUser, Wacom_TouchUser, and WTabletServicePro. Which one is it?
It worked for me but recently I have this problem that every tool that I select with my stylus doesn't work and photoshop detects it as if it was the eraser tool :( can someone help me with this?
It worked for me and I use windows 10 (I also turned off updates maybe that's why)
Thank you so so sooo much!!!
This tip - about a text file - just saved me! It also solves another bug (which spoiled my life and was just making me nuts, so that I stopped drawing on a tablet for several months): Windows-Ink doesn't allow you to resize the brush through "alt", for some reason.
OMG, THANK YOU SO MUCH, it worked! It's actually THE ONLY video that helped me to fix the problem and I've watched SO MANY
thankyou very much with the video guide I had that issue my photo shop drawing a large picture that takes forever to open.
The cache changes helped solve my brush lag, thank you very much for the video. Really well explained, succinctly, and clearly - I really appreciate it.
OMG Thank you so much!
I'm changed my Windows to 10 and I was having this annoying problem with the Liquify, and I wasn't finding anything on Google, you're my savior, thank you a lot!
wow, it helps a lot, i´m on mac and change preferences and everything is ok now, thankyou a lot
wow i might need to try all this one day when i have alot more work to do in photoshop , im very glad ive been drawing all my life manually irl though , because i dont have to worry about any of this , learn to draw irl yall
You have just saved my life. Thanks so much for this upload.
I saw the same fix on another video a while back, but great work sharing it dude. i have a little bug after the fix where i go to select a new brush and for the first stroke- opacity and shape dynamics doesnt work, but I found if i make my first brushstroke off my canvas with that newly selected brush i can paint normally on the canvas then afterwards. its a little annoying to begin with but after a while it becomes natural, I liken it to when you paint in real life and you dip your brush into the paint - you always wipe a bit off afterwards! Anyway just in case someone runs into the same problem as me i hope this helps!
we really need updated version of this video MAKING PHOTOSHOP PAINTING FAST 2020
Thanks for the great tips on decreasing lag!!!
Thank you, oh lord and savior Borodante! I struggle with PS performance issues all the time. The WinTabs thing I already knew about, but you did help to understand some of the Photoshop settings.
WinTab is the pen input API that Wacom uses. Windows Ink is a piece of crap and just gets in the way, so I really recommend switching to WinTab, at least for Wacom users. I can't speak on other tablet manufacturers because, well, I've never used anything besides Wacom.
Wacom's drivers are notoriously buggy, as well, so sometimes it can be helpful to just backup and restore Wacom preferences with the preferences utility; doing so reinitializes the tablet driver.
Also, for ordinary Wacom tablet users (like myself), if you have the wireless accessory, try using the tablet on a USB connection and removing the wireless accessory. The wireless accessory was nothing but frustration for me; it wouldn't initialize the Wacom driver at system startup, it started disconnecting randomly after a couple years of use, the battery charge icon didn't always appear in the system tray... The wireless dongle would also cause my computer to take astronomical amounts of time to even begin booting Windows for some unknown reason which even Wacom was unable to figure out. I'm not the only one who has had the issue, either, so it's certainly not an isolated incident.
As a side note, Borodante... I really wish my pen was tilt-capable. It's such a pain working with a statically rotated brush and having to rotate it manually. :/ If I could afford it, I'd have a Cintiq in addition to my Pen & Touch tablet.
Thanks, you saved millions of lives here :D
Hi, Daniel!
I have this lag with liquify you are talking about in video (at 8:40)
I tried everything so far, reinstalled windows, tried 7,8 and 10 version, all soft and all drivers for photoshop and wacom intuos pro, used all tricks including yours, and still have this lag... please tell me if you have any other ideas how to get rid of it, as it is driving me crazy.. I can't work becaus of it.. the only thing helps is turning off "use graphics processor" but then.. all perfomance is not so great.. but this thing completely turnoff this lag, do yo have any ideas what the problem is...
p.s. I even upgraded my hardware, got new video card + ssd disk and made some tests of ram memory to be sure everything is ok with it .. and professionals say everything is great with hardware, and actually it worked great for me before I decided to reinstall windows.. but now, I'm trying for 10 days in a row to fix this problem from early morning till late night and can't find any solution that could help me. please please please!!! maybe you have some ideas... !! will be greatful for any ideas!
here is a video from my screen with this lag in liquify
ua-cam.com/video/g5y-a32wpqE/v-deo.html
OMG THANK YOU SO MUCH!! You're the only channel I've seen address this problem I was feeling so alone!
The file dropping idea was great! Thank you! Works like wonder^^
it's 2020 and windows still have this problem!
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!
Really nice trick to make Photoshop faster without Turning OFF the GPU... The first setting you mentioned about setting the cache to the minimum worked wonders for me!! :D
I couldn't even work smoothly in 4096x4096 resolution with 300dpi, but now I can!! :D
but the 2nd Windows Ink setting and the PSConfig file didn't work for me very well, instead it made the strokes that I drew much more laggy than before, so I discarded the PSConfig file and Turned ON Windows Ink.
I am using Photoshop 2021 on latest Windows 10 with 2GB AMD Radeon Graphics on a Mid 2015 Macbook Pro... with Wacom Intuos Pen Tab... so my setup is pretty underpowerful and outdated.
But in any case, I think the 2020 and 2021 versions of Photoshop and Illustrator have many LAG problems which many people have reported... so we can't do much about it but to wait until its fixed. :)
Photoshop 2019 works wonders even without all these optimizations.
Guess I might switch to 2019 for now.
Hey there Dante. UA-cam just shown me your chanel. The style of your videos is so awesome! Subscribed!
Thank you a lot Sir, you really helped me out fixing that annoying lag on my old cintiq.
Dude, this is huge. You need a noble prize XD
Thank you, I love the BoroSchool series
Dude - that Windows Ink setting in the Wacom - thank you. We'd been fighting with this issue for weeks and this is the first place I've seen the solution. Why does ADOBE not say this anywhere on any of their support?! At least no where I saw. Thanks so much.
What I have discovered is that the higher the resolution I work in, the bigger the brush size I need to use, meaning lag. So, I think I need to start working in a resolution that isn't too much but not a little.
With the brush tool turn Smoothing down to 0% on newer CC versions.
Ty bro!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D
It worked .....I love you for creating this video
holy crap finally found the solution to my problems, love you bro!
Thank you so much, I've had this issue for so long and couldn't find fixes anywhere. For me it actually freezes up for seconds (sometimes 10s of seconds). Like once a minute, sometimes every few strokes. I would have to click on another program and go back to photoshop to unfreeze it or it would be still trying to catch up and making things even worse.
It is insane that I had to find a fix for this! Either MS or Adobe should automatically have this under control because it literally destroys the experience of painting and it has taken many efforts looking on the internet for fixes before I came here. Both of them will say it isn't their problem.
Thank you thank you thank you!
This was a little over my head, but hey, I like the way your accent sounds :D
I had no issues with my tablet for the first few days.but now there is some weird lag.The stroke won't appear for a bit of time.,but once it starts to appear then it follows the brush easily.And also no issues in windows ink sketchpad or any other software.Also, I'm on a 1080 TI and an 8 core CPU, am not gonna turn down any settings aftre paying thousands of dollars to geet the best..
Wow thank you so much I was so scared to use photoshop and I finally started it and it lagged so badly! Thank you so so much for your help!!!!
There was a recent windows update that was really screwing with wacom and photoshop. Every time I tried to erase or use the brush it would just move the canvas around. Turning of windows ink this way solves the issue. Thanks :)
Thank you. This is very useful just I still have problem with finding use windows ink in windows 7 yet
Thanks! Very useful tips! I just finished implementing it, the results are amazing!
This worked! took care of the issue i was having with my PS canvas moving instead of pen stroke, as if using the moving/hand tool when trying to make a stroke. Windows ink was the issue, thank you so much for making this tutorial!
My photoshop was lagging and my settings were already at the lowest so I was starting to lose hope, but the real solution at the end worked wonders for me!
As the last update of PS v 21.2.2, pressure sensitivity doesn't works if you have the file and if you have deactivated the windows ink option in the tablet projection settings.
By telling Photoshop to use wintab (an older tablet driver for windows), you're setting up a default which sticks until you remove the command to use WinTab and re-enable ink.
Great video man!! You solved so many problems at once! Thanks!
you can get easily to the appdata folder by typing in windows search/cortana the word %APPDATA% and the folder shows right up. thanks for the vid!
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS TUTORIAL!!!!
Photoshop is my favorite program to use but it was so slow! This solved my problem. Thank you!
Thanks man this setting helps me a lot
Great, great review and you save my day man! The latest version of Photoshop going me crazy, but now all look to be fine. Amazing!
Thx a lot dude!! I'm now ready to watch all of your teaching videos haha
Thanks for the advice, I also found that having several text layers with effects applied to them tends to make the program lag a bit too when using the brushes.