- #PHOTOSHOP LIQUIFY TOOL FLASHING FULL SIZE#
- #PHOTOSHOP LIQUIFY TOOL FLASHING UPDATE#
- #PHOTOSHOP LIQUIFY TOOL FLASHING PC#
- #PHOTOSHOP LIQUIFY TOOL FLASHING MAC#
Not ideal, but could be a lot more annoying. You don’t need to restart Photoshop to apply the change so you just need to untick the Use Graphic Processor checkbox before using Liquify and then tick it again afterwards. The good news is that this can be a quick workaround. So, you would not think of disabling it, would you? That’s totally counterintuitive.
#PHOTOSHOP LIQUIFY TOOL FLASHING MAC#
You can hover over each of them in Photoshop to read their descriptions: One is for blurring and sharpening, one for warping tools, one to take advantage of the Mac Metal engine (or Windows’ DirectX)…ĭespite what I read for Windows users, nothing here suggests there is a correlation with these settings and the Photoshop Liquify tool. In theory, this should help a lot with the Liquify tool and similar as well, because as I mentioned earlier, these benefit from using the GPU.Īnd if you look at the Advanced Settings for the GPU in the Performance tab, none of the options are tied to Liquify. I’d say I can see a 25% performance increase with it. There are no massive benefits without using an external monitor, but it helps my old machine with some labour-intensive processes like exporting videos (now that I have my own YouTube channel) or scrolling my large photo libraries. I recently added an external GPU to my Mac. So I reverted back to my settings and went to play with the GPU. Annoying, but if it helps…īut no, this was not the solution.
#PHOTOSHOP LIQUIFY TOOL FLASHING FULL SIZE#
I went from Full Size and Precise all the way down to Standard. So I reduced the detail of the brushes to see if this could have impacted Liquify.
#PHOTOSHOP LIQUIFY TOOL FLASHING PC#
I checked the brush first because the reports from PC users were all mentioning Nvidia and I have AMD. So my educated guess was to experiment with the brush settings first and then maybe check with the graphic card. Every brush stroke has a heavy computational process behind. This is true for any tool that uses a brush to “paint” any modification to an image and even more with tools like Liquify that move and displace pixels around. It is process intensive so it tries to delegate some operations to the graphic card and keep other resources free. Now, you probably know that the Liquify tool benefits from hardware acceleration to perform some of its functions. Taking inspiration from those articles, I went through Photoshop’s preferences. So I tried a few thing on my own… I do try to fix things sometimes… ? Preliminary investigation
But they were all mentioning Nvidia graphics card and secondary monitors, and I have neither. Particularly on Windows 10, users were experiencing a lag when using the Liquify tool or some kind of unresponsiveness.
#PHOTOSHOP LIQUIFY TOOL FLASHING UPDATE#
It could have been an overlook from Adobe, there are a few in this update (like using the old logo in the interface, still there at the time of writing), and maybe they’ll patch it in a couple days, so no big deal…īut I kept digging and I found some articles mentioning a similar issue for Windows computers, dating a few years back. I thought maybe it was too early since the update for a large group of users to notice, but surely someone somewhere had already found it. Anyway, I quickly searched for a solution online but to my surprise there was no mention of it. I don’t use the Liquify tool much so I had not noticed this bug before and maybe it was there even before the update. The lag between my hand movement and the response was so bad that it took me half a minute only to close the tool. Moving the mouse I could see the cursor jumping from one place of the screen to the other every 3-4 seconds. So I launched Photoshop, opened the Liquify tool… and I couldn’t use it. Just for a quick retouch for an Instagram story. After updating to the new Photoshop 2020 I had the need to use the Liquify tool.