Hi,
I am pretty frustrated with CS4. Besides being sluggish on my high end desk-top (but not on my slower laptop), I really hate the images going into tabs. I turned off the option in preferences regarding putting images in tabs, and that helped as when I open an image and it stays in its window. But if I drag and drop an image into photoshop it goes into a tab. The stupid tab takes up the whole image area, even if the image is only 100 x 100 pixels. So then I must take the image out of tab mode. But then if I'm working on another image and cover up an image, the covered up one sometimes get converted back to a tab. I often put up images side by side for comparison. If I'm trying to do a careful placement of an image on the screen, if I pause too long the image is suddenly converted to a tab. VERY frustrating. I don't want tabs EVER. I don't want photoshop continually converting image display modes.
Is there any way to prevent this? This is so frustrating I am going back to CS3. I'll only use CS4 for raw conversions of 5D2 images.
Sure wish I could help with your problem. I have no clue
My experience with CS4 has been positive and its the only update I have used right away never going back to the previous at all. Strange that is sluggish in the Desktop but not on laptop.
Only suggestions I have is re installing? Reason for suggesting is the difference in desktop and laptop If you find out please let us know !!!
I have not had that tab problem. Maybe my workflow is such that I do not encounter it.
Make sure preferences is set up to use as much memory that you can, make a bigger scratch file and put it on a drive that PSCS4 is not on if possible. Defrag the drive, add memory if you are not at least at 3 GB.
Roger, I have had no issues with the tab problem. CS4 runs super fast for me. CS4 also uses a (your) high end graphics card to enhance performance. I use one of my internal hard drives for the scratch disk for CS4. My graphics card is a NVIDA Corporation, GeForce 9600 GT/PCI/SSE2, and CS4 found it on installation.
I understand your frustration. I still love Photoshop 7 and the browser. ( Life was simple then)