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1. #Nik collection photoshop cs6 upgrade
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3. #Nik collection photoshop cs6 mac

You can see for at least short-term I upgraded my own similar-age similar-spec (but 8GB) machine with SSD, and I think that has probably brought me another 1- to max 2- years of use. A quad-core current machine loaded with 16GB (or even 32GB) of RAM and new version high-speed SSD//Fusion and improved GPU will be way way faster than your machine with 16GB and SSD (if you do put SSD in your machine you cannot access SSD at today's fastest speed because of limitations in your motherboard chipset).

#Nik collection photoshop cs6 mac

I would take that question over to the Mac forum here if you want a precise view. Would the new one still be much faster than my upgraded old one?

#Nik collection photoshop cs6 professional

Hi Mark, thank you very much for your professional answer! Really appreciate it! One last question, is it worth upgrading it or would you buy the lasted new model. In general, I would not really recommend less than 16GB and quad-core with SSD for a power photo-editor platform nowadays 4GB and dual-core is really getting too small for good performance with today's higher-MP cameras if you are running multiple applications including Photoshop CC/CS and doing layer-work with filter plugins. You will be hitting performance bottle-necks because of RAM much more than me as you only have 4GB now.

I cannot increase my RAM above 8GB if I could I would. I just swapped my MBP over to SSD from a 7200rpm HDD and it has improved my performance problem due to limited RAM quite a lot. You need to check about the heat sensor/fan issue though with an iMac). If you do this, you can just see Nik's behaviour without the host Photoshop around it.įit more RAM (go to 16GB if you can), change to SSD (so paging speed is much faster. Drag a 16-bit TIFF onto the icon in the dock (use a copy file as Nik will overwrite when you save). You can test your Nik standalone speed by just opening the application direct from the Applications folder. Just found this, so don't know if it really gives advantage (did not seem to for me), but run (CEP4, but may work for the others also) in 32-bit mode: Nik silently auto-updates as part of Google Updater, but worth to check you do have latest (V1.110): Maybe use Disk Utility to check all is well on it.Ĭheck you have latest Nik (although I think in the October 2013 release Nik/Google changed the architecture to now have pre-processing phases which I think did slow Nik's launch time down quite a bit that is when I really noticed it). Obviously make sure your HDD is not full. Quit all apps except Photoshop (don't just close, quit), work with lower resolution files, work with lower bit-depth files, don't use Smart Objects/Filters, merge layers more often. A 2009 machine is kind of getting end-of-life performance-wise nowadays - of couse it still works, but just as you and I are seeing, it is getting slow for today's applications and image-sizes. There could and probably are limitations coming from only 2-core as well. You can turn on Activity Monitor to see what is actually happening, but I guess OS X is paging out Photoshop to make space for Nik to open, and is then paging Photoshop back in after. My files are often around 1.5GB ~ 2.0GB so at psd limit.

My Nik can be slow also, especially on large images (my camera is 24MP, but I am often working with stitched panos of perhaps 70MP). I run Nik with CC/CS6 (and LR5) on a 2009 MBP, 3.06GHz Core Duo, and 8GB of RAM. I have nobody here to ask (living in Morocco).Īt a guess you are running out of RAM and your machine is swapping in and out to disk.

#Nik collection photoshop cs6 upgrade

Is it a problem of CS6 and Nik software or my iMac? Could I upgrade my iMac to work faster. Could it be because I have started to work only with 16Bite files? How can I solve this problem? I work with a iMac 2009: Processor 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, Memory 4 GB 1067 Mhz DDR3, Graphics 512 MB. It is also absolutely impossible to have any other application open while working in photoshop, like Safari or Aperture. It takes ages to open the nik software in photoshop and then again to apply the filter. I am working with photoshop and nik software for many years but now the software has become too slow to work with anymore.