Hi! I have a strange problem with painting in Photoshop. I tried to find a better description off this problem so I figured out the following : Open PhotoShop (in my case CS) File>New Settings Width 3000 pixels Height 30000 pixels Resolution 150 pixels/inch Color Mode: RGB Color 8 bit I choose for a black background Then I use an white brush and start brushing some lines, whatever comes up in my mind. Then I start smudging. After seconds I start to notice the waiting/busy icon from Windows. Is there by any change an solution for this problem? I also tried it on a Mac and the same thing happens (beach ball appears). Thanks in advance. Ronald

Sorry made a type Width is 3000 and the height also is 3000

The smudge tool is usually slow to respond when you work in high res like that. You'll either need to increase the memory or work in a lower resolution. What some digital matte painters do, though, is crop a small piece from their high res files and work with that piece -- then later merge it with their larger piece. Any one of those three solutions should work for you.

You're right April, the smudge tool is one of the more memory intensive tools in PS. This is because you are actually changing ALL of the pixels under the brush as you move it along. The larger the brush, the more memory is hit. I get lag time with my tablet but learned to move along at a smaller more steady pace. It's really bad when you try to work like you would in traditional media like "oil paint" (which is one reason i always wanted to get the app Painter)

Huck, at least you know it's not something you're doing wrong...

:)
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