9) Improve Photoshop Elements performance
If Photoshop Elements isn’t running very well on your hardware, there are ways you can try and fix this. Choose Edit, Preferences and Performance to see what’s available: Lowering the number of history states can reduce the demands on your system, for example, though it does mean you’re more limited when undoing your image edits.
On the same dialog you can increase or decrease the amount of RAM available to Photoshop Elements (the program will advise you on what the “ideal range” is for your system, and choose whether or not to utilize your computer’s GPU for improved performance. When you’re happy with your selections, click OK to apply the changes.
