Photoshop Slugish?

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19 Aug 2011, 10:38 am

Hey.
I have a new iMac Mid 2011.

Specs:
AMD Radeon 6750 512MB GDDR5
4Gb Ram
Intel i5 2.6 Ghz CPU

Just installed PS and started using it and I have noticed its slugish.
For example when I use the paint bucket it actually has a progress bar when I go to use it.
Paint brushes are laggy, and the gradient tool is unresponsive.
This is not a problem with my Mac, I can play Garrys Mod on OSX and even Minecraft on it no problems.
This used to happen on an old Windows machine I had back in 2009 with the following specs:
GTS 250 1GB
2GB Ram
AMD Athlon x2 5200.
Why is this?
I want PS to be responsive.
It works completely fine on my Macbook.
Its Adobe Photoshop CS 5

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19 Aug 2011, 2:15 pm

could be that the image you're filling with the paint bucket is too big. I usually like to create an image 1000x1000px and then crop or resize.

Is there anything else running in the background that might be slowing you down? Apple support, quicktime and other stuff like that doesn't need to be running all the time. (I don't know if Macs have things running like Windows does)

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19 Aug 2011, 2:17 pm

MasterJedi wrote:

Nothing in the background what so ever and it still does it.
My canvas is 1024 x 768 which I never usually have a problem with.

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