How to Fix Brush Lag in Photoshop - Quick Tutorial
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- čas přidán 11. 09. 2024
- This is just a quick lesson on some tips for fixing brush lag in Photoshop CC. This will help many artist that like to draw or paint in Photoshop. As you know any type of lag or delay in the brushes can become extremely annoying and take the fun out of creating your art. These are just some basic tips and if you have any suggestions then please feel free to comment and help our community of artists with your knowledge. Thanks for watching this video and if you find it helpful then please like, share, and subscribe for new videos each week on drawing and digitally painting. More on the way real soon!
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why can i run crysis 3 at 4k 100 fps but a 200 pixel photoshop brush breaks my pc
2021 here; its good to you, even my 3090 is lag using the brush and the smoothing is more than 25%
put smoothing to 0%
crimson35124 you just saved my life! None of the suggestions on the video worked, it was the smoothing!!!
Yep, that did the job, thanks man! :)
Yeah, i figured this one out when only my eraser would lag no matter whether it was a mouse or tablet. But unfortunately nobody has actually made a video saying this, so i had to look through my settings for a good like 10 minutes to finally figure out the issue.
You got it...the rest of this is cack!
OMG never read comments!! that fixed it been freaking annoying for weeks!!! UDASHIT CRIMSON!
"I really wanna punch the screen, but I can't do that right now" xD
i laughed at this one too :')
3 years later PS still has this issue. Thanks for the ruler tip, it helped!
@@beatricebui9974 yes my laptop its pretty powerful it can play mostly games 60+ fps on high sets, but fucking lagging on photoshop
I am talking from the future using photoshop in the year 3000,... still has Brush Lag!!
OMG! Thank you so much! I can't BELIEVE it was THAT simple. I seriously JUST uninstalled and reinstalled my driver, and that didn't work, I looked everywhere and then stumbled on this OLD video, and it helped 100%. The lag isn't even there anymore! I could kiss you, thanks!
UNBELIEVABLE! 6 years later and this solution keep working.. same lag, same solution removing the ruler.. WTF Adobe.. c'mon..
Thank you so much man, really appreciate it :)
even almost 5 years later your solution still works! I find it amazing that adobe still didn't address this in any form either software adjustment or a simple warning in program or tip. well I thank you very much for making this video!
This is crazy! deactivating the ruler really fixes the problem. CTRL R and boom! all the lag was gone. it's unbelievable, Thanks a million for the tutorial.
no way! i try to find a solution for this for YEARS and this simple trick finally worked!! Thanks a lot!
I was SHOCKED at how this was the issue. I suddenly started having lag and could not figure out why, until I realized it was because of the stupid ruler got turned on.
Crazy isn't it! Thanks for your comment and glad you got it resolved! ;)
SAME
Same thing happen to me!
god thanky
You save mi life bro, I almost don-t believe you. But it works... stupid Ruler!
I really didn't want to sacrafice the level of the processor so I kept looking for a solution. I'm back here as I thought that you would appreciate this other solution. It really worked for me and my was producing some major lag. It was pretty depressing really. So this works perfectly me and I use Windows: By going to the windows button, searching for “services”, then finding the one labeled “Wacom Professional Services” and restarting that service (either via right lick or a link on the left) - that essentially ‘rebooted’ the lagging Wacom driver and was instantly performing well without having to reboot the entire computer.
YO FINALLYYYYY I JUST SUFFERED QUIETLY FOR YEARS AND I NEVER REALLY THOUGHT TO FIX IT. THANK YOU FOR THISSSS!
It's 2022 and I had given up on trying to do anything in Photoshop. Adobe even convinced me to downgrade to an older version or their suggestion was to buy a new Mac. This has helped to the point I can actually use photoshop again! I had bought a new graphics tablet and I put it back into storage because I couldn't use it without getting One frame per second. Now I can start using it again. Thank you ! 😀 👍❤
I was about to make my company buy me a new computer. I could not figure out why the brush was getting so laggy. I had played with the setting and tried everything else that was suggested. This morning it was extra frustrating because I am on a deadline and I did a quick search again nad clicked on this video. I laughed out loud when you suggested that "rulers" was the issue. Then I tried it. I was amazed that it worked! Adobe really needs to find out the reason for this and fix it.
I've been suffering with this lag for weeks and none of these videos helped me, but finally this one worked! Thank you sooooo much for this! This was life saviour!
I changed my drawing mode to basic. Problem solved!! I'm happy again! Thank you so much for this because I was REALLY getting beyond the point of being totally and completely annoyed! This was never a problem with previous versions. There is an upside to the move to app-based...but there are also a whole lot of downsides to it, in my opinion.
I totally agree. Thank you for your comment and I am glad you got it figured out!
what if you still get a lag? its not as slow but its still there. did this, cleaned out cached, made room for my ram, tried to go back to a previous state. but I still get a lag, and its with all the brushes I use
Thanks seems to have helped a lot on CC14 too. None of that ever happened in cs3 up to cs6 on a crappy computer, crazy how "improved" software can be a let down that way.
I agree. Some times I wish they would just leave it alone. If it isn't broke then why fix it. lol
Turning of rulers did it for me. I can't believe the fix was so easy. THANK YOU!!!
Man, I`ve beem struggling to solve the brush lag for hours. I use the latest photoshop version, and my computer is quite great in the means of performance and hardware. Little did I know, that ctrl+R could heal my soul. Thank you a lot!
Great finding! Based on your idea I investigated further and found that going to Preferences > Technology Previews > putting a checkmark by Deactivate Native Canvas (requires restarting PS) solves the problem even if the rulers are turned on.
i didn't dven have the rulers on. so what am i supposed to do now? mine's lagging about twice as bad as yours in the video
I can't believe the ruler was the major cause of these lags. I've spent almost a year with this issue and couldn't figure out what to do. Such simple edit makes a different with drawing in photoshop. Thank you so much for this tip.
I found custom brush shapes cause a lot of lag as well. Using a simple round brush speeds things up massively!
This was my solution. ThankS!!!!
1 brush I like to use had a preset size, so i made a new brush with no preset size, which caused it to lagg. However, when i saved it as a brushlist, it stopped lagging.
I was just about to give up on my Surface Pro 7 then I tried the ctrl + R. Wow. Thank you so much!!!! Still a lifesaver in 2021 haha
Oh my god thanks Robert, I sketch really fast and this goddamn lag is killing my flow in like every 10 second, thank you you are a lifesaver. I thought my Wacom was damaged cause i tried to turn off flicks and windows ink and all the different thing, but the lag in Hatching
did not go away. thanks man u nailed it
THANK YOU!!! The ruler turn-off trick saved me
i was in the midst of having a panic attack, the ruler note is my ultimate moment of zen
Dude you're the man. Those damn rulers 😂. I updated Mac OS, got new Wacom drivers, cleaned my desktop and shut down idle programs...and it was all the damn rulers
I need some serious help. I've got really really bad brush lag. A red straight line follows behind my brush and it takes ages for a mark to show on the screen. I can't even draw a letter. I've turned windows ink off, changed the preferences, ruler is of and it's still incredibly lagy. This isn't happening on corel but it is on photoshop and 8 don't know what to do
Insanly helpful. Sometimes you want to use smoothing .so......people saying put smoothing to 0...this isnt useful! Getting rid of the ruler though( something I never use) is an amazing tip!!!!
Hey, thanks for your video. I touched all this options and nothing. This are my PC specs: CPU Ryzen 9 3950X, 32gb RAM, 1.5tb SSD, Nvidia Titan XP pascal graphics card. Photoshop is the unique app that is not working fine in my computer. Do you have any other tips that can work for me?
Holy $hit! The rulers thing did the trick! I don't know why that causes the problem! I feel like I have a new Tablet now! Thank you so much!
ohhh, the control + R really improved the functionality of PS!!! Thanks Man!
Hello fellow designers, I don't have brush lag, however my brush seems to be playing catch up, its always like a second behind where my brush should be. Tried setting drawing mode to basic, and un checking brush catch up. It started doing this for no reason too.
I love this, tried everything to help and it was just the ruler😂🥰 Thank you!!!
that ruler tip changed everything!! thanks
Holy crap, it makes a huge difference. Thanks for the tip
Reducing smoothing did it for me. I now have it at 30% which seems to work with my graphic card. Might vary for others.
You are right! I didnt' even think about it, but I recently added rulers so I could place some guides while adding some handwriting to an image. I had uninstalled, re-installed, updated drivers, freed up memeory, etc.. etc... This was a life saver, I thought I was loosing my mind. More importantly my work flow came to a screeching halt! Thank you!
You have changed my life. Not to mention saved my Cintiq from a punch to the face.
Was bugging me and did my head in for weeeeeks. Ruler helped a bit but what really did it for me was toggling off 30 bit display in Preferences > Performance > Graphics Processor Settings Advanced Settings
Thank you so very much.. I reset my Photoshop when Launching and suddenly I had major brush lag.. like way behind. But doing what you said also turning OFF Smoothing in Brush settings panel was huge too!
Thank you so much! It would never have occurred to me that this adjustment I made recently caused this problem
Can't believe this was causing the lag. I can't thank you enough 🤞🏽🤞🏽
great really Ive been suffering for years but you have fixed is THANKYOU!!!!!
Set my graphics to Basic as instructed and it worked for me!!!! ... BUT... You need to reboot Photoshop, then try brushing again. It doesn't kick in until you reboot on some versions.
Mr Robert, this fixed my brush lag after lot of phaffing around in Preferences for months. THANK YOU!
thanks buddy, removed the rulers and works like magic for me. thanks a tonnn!
Dude thank you so much! I spent hours trying to figure out what’s wrong with photoshop and it turns out that i just had to get rid of the ruler! You’re a lifesaver
it didnt work for me.. I have an insane brush lag and it really interferes with my school projects I tried everything...
wow... the ruler thing really worked for me.. Thank you
This is saved me alot, thank you Robert.
Wow, removing the rulers worked for me as well. Hadn't seen the solution anywhere else, THANK YOU!
Wow.... I never knew rulers could cause this....
Thank you!
Hasn't completely fixed it for heavily textured brushes, but switching the settings to Basic has made Photoshop usable again. Thanks for posting this!
the ctrl R really worked.. THANKS A LOTTT
uggggggghhhhhhhhh..... how am I just now seeing this..... it makes a huge difference. Thank you!!!!
Glad it worked for you! :)
OMG... thank you so much, it worked. I was stumped with this issue.
If you're on PC, turn your power settings to High Performance! It makes a big difference
This fixed my problem thankssssssss
I found your video looking for a way to solve the vector pen, not brush lag. Amazingly, this solved the pen lag issue as well. Thanks for posting this!
I dont understand... I played around with all these options, and nothing changed... my brush cant keep up with my mouse, and I am pretty sure it isnt my computer... it has 16gb of ram, quad core i7. Its no slacker, but for some reason photoshop is really buggy and its starting to really piss me off...
same
Do everything you see here, and add this step...go to your Wacom settings and turn off double click distance. alls good now. And thanks for the tips Robert Love all your tutorials.
Super helpful, no matter how many times Adobe updates. Thanks for helping me sort out the lag on my pen!
Oh man, this works wonders. If all else fails, use this tip!
Thanks. Graphics Processor Settings, switching it to Basic worked for me.
Glad to hear it!
Definitely wasn't expecting rulers to be the issue. Thanks for sharing!
crimson35124 had a good one too. I noticed the lagging while working on a project and it was very annoying. I did what this video said and it didn't work for me and luckily went to the comments and crimson35124 said, "put smoothing to 0%". After I did that, the lagging went away. Thanks
That was driving me crazy!! Thank you so much!
Getting rid of the rulers fixed my lag problem. Thanks for posting, saved me a bunch of trial and error.
UNBELIEVABLE! This is literally the last thing I would have tried. And it worked beautifully for me. Thank you so much.
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.
Thank you so much,rulers weren't problem,Drawing mode was(Advanced should be set to Basic),I have a good computer and I was shocked that 2-3 days ago my Photoshop just started to lag instantly,thank you.
Well, that's something useful you mentioned. Also for scrolling and zooming in/out on your canvas, you see the difference how much faster it is! Thanks for sharing :)
You're welcome!
WOW! here it is 2019, I had never had a brush lag issue, The other day I updated and boom, healing brush lags like crazy, I have to pause over the target for about a half second before "healing", was driving me insane. Looked around a bit to no avail. Came across this vid and the thing that worked was turning the Rulers off. Instantly problem was gone. Thank you!!!! and to Adobe, WTF man??? lol
Thanks, this helped a lot.
My problem was indeed with scratch discs. I have three, one very old HDD which I dump things on, primary SSD and external HDD. For some reason Photoshop preferred to use the old and extremely slow disc, making my brush stop working randomly and make the marks appear all at once several seconds later. It was totally destructive to any attempt at sketching... Unticking it in settings fixed it immediately :)
Cant thank enough for this video, now I am drawing like nothing before
FREAKING RULER! THEY WERE THE CULPRIT! THANK YOU !
In Windows 7 was everything fine, but in Windows 10 the brush is lagging very hard, nothing helps.
Installed Windows 7 again
I can't believe that. I was almost giving up... thank you so much!! :')
wow i can't believe that's it ?! thank you for your help. I'm using photoshop 2019 and adobe still didnt fix it
There is a new "smothing" feature, on the top of the screen, next to the Opacity and flow percentage... It makes the brush slow AF, I activated it just to try it and forgot about it.. It was the solution for me...
It was really helpful to remove the rulers
Awesome 🙌🏻 . Hiding the rulers really speeds up the strokes and removes lag. Thanks a ton 💪🏻
Actually helped I moved the history states down to 10 too cause why not I like the traditional feel of using an eraser was frustrating cause I was in the middle of painting a study
Windows 7 photoshop works perfect, windows 10 - lagging as hell. Back to Win7
turn off smoothing for brush settings helped me a lot
this is AMAZING! Thank you! I never would have thought THIS up!
Hi Robert, all these things makes it better but PS since CC really sucks compared to applications like Krita or Clip Studio Paint as far as painting performance is concerned. With each update I hope they will fix or improve it but it seems like they ruined it. I switched to CSP for sketching and also for other features it is more powerfull - PS is good for post rendering.
I can see where you are coming from. The only thing I still have to give credit to PS is that it has the most overall features for productivity. That is why it is still the industry standard. But MS5 is still leading the pack for book creation IMO. Thanks for your comment and good luck with your art!
Robert Marzullo 100% agree
DUDE YOU'RE A GENIUS THANK YOU SO MUCH
How come the ruler was the issue? This absolutely helped..... thank you Rob!
Also unchecking smoothing in the brush settings seems to help
LEGEND, YOU HELPED ME!!! THANK YOU!!!!!
thank you man, it helped a lot, and the best, you were using mac, its almost impossible to find mac tutorials some times... cheers
I have this issue but didn't even have rulers in the first place and my lag is 100x worse than in the video
There i was reinstalling my wacom, thanks so much for this, fixed it without losing a monitor :D
Wow!! So simple... And we couldn't have figured this out in forever
I just changed the page size to the inches and it changed performance, thanks for the help
You save my day!!! pure magic
Thank you very much, I am was looking for solution so long!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you
didnt work for me. Already had the rulers down. weird bc I should be packing an NVIDIA videocard but instead it grabs the c: disk
I just figured out my problem as well, I accidentally had my smoothing on the brush to 100% and I was to give up on photoshop all together I was so frustrated.