# PhotoshopElements

# Improve performance with filters and effects

Some filters and effects are memory intensive, especially when applied to high-resolution images. You can use these techniques to improve performance:

- Try filters and settings on a small selected area of the image.
- Try filters and settings on a smaller, resized copy of your image. When you’re satisfied with the results, apply the filter with the same settings to your original image.
- Free up memory before running the filter or effect by clearing the clipboard, the undo history, or both. Choose Edit > Clear > [command] .
- Exit from other applications to make more memory available.
- Adjust filter settings to make memory-intensive filters less complex. Memory-intensive filters include Lighting Effects, Cutout, Stained Glass, Chrome, Ripple, Spatter, Sprayed Strokes, and Glass. (For example, to reduce the complexity of the Stained Glass filter, increase cell size. To reduce the complexity of the Cutout filter, increase Edge Simplicity, decrease Edge Fidelity, or both.)

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- About photo effects

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- This page on the Web