![]() I often blend the Topaz Adjust layer with the unaltered image to bring back a touch of detail so I have now created a new workflow within Photoshop.ġ. I think Topaz slows down dramatically with large files. I am using the 3.0.2 version, so that is not the issue. I've turned off the preview preset window and that does speed up the loading but does slow down the followon workflow since each preset must generate. I also find Topaz plug-ins a bit slow, I mainly use Denoise and while the latest version is faster than before it is still slow compared to other filters. Let me now if you have any further questions. If you are using the most current version, please see here on reducing the startup time: Mainly, this covers shutting off your preset preview window, so thumbnails are not generated at startup.this is especially helpful if you have tons of presets or are using an extra large image. If it is not the most recent, please download and install from This should help speed issues. Snow Leopard has some known issues in general.Ĭan you check to see if your Simplify is the most recent version (3.0.2). Somehow was under the impression they also monitored this site and interacted with members here as well. Hard to figure which is the underlying cause, the file sizes or the new software versions. They are very good there at solving problems with their software and nice too.Īt about the same time that Topaz got upgraded to 64-bit I also upgraded to Snow Leopard AND acquired the Nikon D3X. I'm kind of new to Mac and CS5 so I can't guess what though. ![]() Therefore I conclude there is something wrong with your set up. Processing - 4 seconds before it went back to PS with finished product. It opened in 2 sec, thumbs almost instantly, run through thumbs instantly, change sliders almost instantly. ( default set up as CS5 installed)įirefox open, CS5 Opened a raw file and made layers and such to equal 505 mb file size. MacBookPro with 4 gb ram and my HD as scratch disk 70% 157 gb free. Out of curiosity since I don't usually use such large files, I just did a fast test. So it used to be OK? What changed in your system? And the Flash drive is in one of the four internal hard drive bays on the MacPro, not USB. This started happening before I added the 64GB flash scratch disk. Do you have any hard disc space that could be allocated? If your Flash Drive / Scratch Disc is USB, there may be a bottle neck in the read/write access speed to that drive. One of my favorites, Topaz Simplify, speeds along until it hits the 83% loaded mark and then I might as well take a 10-15 minute break for it to finish building thumbnails and allow me to preview choices and even once the thumbnails are built the performance is so slow I wind up not using anything other than the presets.Īny suggestions for how to speed up Topaz performance? All other filters and plugins work very quickly except Topaz. I do work on fairly large image stacks since I shoot with a Nikon D700 and a Nikon D3X and my average file is somewhere around 500-600MB. The rig blazes through all other tasks, including plug ins from nik, Alien Skin and Photomatix. I am running Topaz under Photoshop CS5 on a MacPro eight core with 8GB RAM and a 64GB Flash Drive as a scratch disk. ![]() I have nearly stopped running Topaz plugins due to extremely slow performance on large files.
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