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Now, there are several basic setting on Photoshop that you need to address in order to maximize its speed and ensure smooth operation. The first and most important is to designate a scratch disk. Now, what is a scratch disk? Well, it's a disk that's different from your program disk where Photoshop puts tent files and where you save your work. Photoshop works much better when it has one hard drive to access the program executables and the Windows Operating System and also Photoshop executables and then another hard drive to put the project files in place to switch out tent files. CS3 will work much more reliably and faster if you set up a separate scratch disk hard drive properly. Also, Bridge will work better too. It needs a place to store thumbnail images and it wants and needs a separate scratch disk. Now, here's how to set up your scratch disk. You got to edit in the menu bar, click on it obviously, go all the way to the bottom to preferences and then you start the entire issue of preferences at the top. You click on general and it will take you to the beginning. Now, one thing I do is I activate automatically launch Bridge because obviously that's what I want to happen. If you use Lightroom and you don't use Bridge, then uncheck that and Photoshop will launch a lot more quickly. The interface, I'll leave that the way it is. Those are Photoshop defaults. Just leave them the way it is. File handling, pretty much the same thing except I might direct your attention to this setting. It says preferred Camera Raw for supported raw files. If you double click on a raw file, it will automatically open Camera Raw if you check this box. That's something you may want. Now, here is your scratch disk designation area and for me, on my Windows machine, obviously C is my program disk. D is the second hard drive in my RAID array. If I'm saying that incorrectly, I apologize because I'm not a computer guru, but my guy set it up on a RAID system and the D drive is the second hard drive in that array and it performs magnificently when it's set up this way. You should have at least, bare minimum of two hard drives on your computer. I have four on mine and the D drive being the scratch disk. So be sure and set that up properly. Now, let me direct your attention up here to history states. This is kind of an important area up here that later on you're going to whish you had set differently. The Photoshop defaults for history states is 20 and what history states are is that when you're going through a process of manipulating an image, each one of the steps that you take to get down to the final result is called a state and if you have only 20, then you could only take 20 steps in progress in manipulating that image before you lose the ones that occurred before. You can only have 20 states. I have expanded mine to 65 because I want the ability, if I get all the way to the end of a process on an image and I want to go back all the way to the beginning, I can do that, generally speaking, with 99 percent of my work, if I have 65 states designated on my history and cache section. The downside to that setting is that it tends to take up a lot of RAM resource, so you got to kind of balance that out and so far, so good. Knock on wood, I haven't had any problems with a very high setting on my history states. So we'll set that however you want, however your machine responds best. But you want it to be as high as it can possibly be without affecting the performance of your machine. Cursors is another purely personal preference. Transparency and gamut; I'll leave those on Photoshop default settings. Units and rulers, in the US obviously we're into inches and feet and yards and miles. If you're into the metric system, set it up for metric and, you know, you can do it that way if you want to. Guides, grids and slices; very self-explanatory, all the guides and slices. I have color codes. If you want to change them, there's how to do it. All your plugs-ins, now, this is, you know, being able to reach back to earlier versions of Photoshop, it deals with files that were possibly manipulated in earlier versions of Photoshop. You can bring old plug-ins forward and so on and so on. I don't mess with that, so, you know, if you want to, be my guest. And then, of course, the type section where you designate all of your font issues. Obviously the most important section in the preference area is setting up that scratch disk. Do that and you'll be a lot happier dealing with Photoshop.