Speed up Corel Paint Shop Pro

I have always liked photography. I use to take pictures as a child with my old fashioned (you know, the kind with film) camera. It was lots of fun and I still have boxes of pictures from when I was a kid. The problem with film is that unless you are waaaay more experienced than I was/am you can’t edit your pictures.

This is where Corel Paint Shop Pro comes in. I bought this program after I’d had several digital cameras and had played with some of the free editing software that came with one of those cameras. You could say that I became hooked on photo editing. The one problem with Paint Shop is that it does take a lot of memory. The more I’ve used it the slower it has become. Now granted I do a lot of editing. I mean if you can turn your images into something from the past, or a kaleidoscope image, or a painting….why not do it? And that’s just some of the things I like to do with my pictures.

Unfortunately all of that editing, tweeking, and deleting has caused my hard drive to become very fragmented. The more fragmented my computer got the slower the program ran. I swear it was taking five minutes just to wait for all of the pictures to load. I know, I know. Five minutes in the grand scheme of things really isn’t that long and it is nothing compared to the time it would take to modify pictures the old fashioned way but dang. I’m a material girl, ya know? I want it my way right away. I’m impatient to the extreme.

What’s a patience challenged girl to do? Defrag regularly, of course. Now that I defrag often I’ve noticed and increase in the speed of Paint Shop Pro, which makes me one happy camper.

Do you like to play with photo editing software? Have you found the process gets slower and slower? What have you done to speed things back up?

Photo Credit: Velo City

May 29th, 2009 by birdievogel | Posted in Photo Software | (0)