Pulp To Pixels

With each new ver­sion Pho­to­shop has added more and more fea­tures. The down side is all those extra fea­tures eat up mem­ory and can lead to slow per­for­mance, espe­cially on older machines. How­ever, Pho­to­shop doesn’t just make mod­els look pretty, it bor­rows a lit­tle trick from them to keep svelte—purging.

tak­ing command

The Purge com­mand is listed under the Edit menu and allows you the option to purge Undo states, His­tory snap­shots, Clip­board con­tents, or All of the afore­men­tioned at once. Doing this can free up large amounts of RAM and swap file space for you to dedicate

So, next time you overindulge with three-​​hundred undo states don’t for­get to purge once in a while.

About the author

Jeff designs print and web expe­ri­ences for a vari­ety of clients and enjoys shar­ing what he learns along the way. He entered the indus­try at the split of web design from graphic design occurred and is now fas­ci­nated as the two dis­ci­plines are on the cusp of com­ing full cir­cle to merge into a new, media savvy gen­er­a­tion of design­ers. When not crazy busy, Jeff likes geo­caching and con­sum­ing copi­ous amounts of cof­fee. You should fol­low him on Twit­ter and Facebook.

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