How to Fix Photoshop Lag | Optimize Photoshop for Drawing 

Also, If your canvas is getting laggy or freezes all the time, try to disable OpenCL and Antialiasing in "Performance" TAB. In case this doesn't help, I would try temporally disabling videocard support altogether.

immediately worked...Can't thank you enough! Been through a million videos and this fixed it!

Holy crap. THANK YOU! I did what you said & it helped SOMETHING. before PS was legit taking over 20mns just to shut down. And after this it shut down instantly when I hit exit. Now hopefully it fixed the lag too! BLESS YOU!

Same here. Turning off Smoothing under the brush settings tab got rid of the brush lag. Thank you megamaster!

I turned off smoothing and it FINALLY worked. Thanks!

This is good to know. I've had issues in the past. I had no idea you could change the history! I should surf the preferences more often XD

thank you for me it was the smoothing option that was causing the lag. Much appreciated.

thanks for the help bro. Disabling smoothing in brush settings helped me.

Thanks a lot man. I was getting mega frustrated and that mega helped 👌 Subd 👍🤘

You saved the day!

Thank you! It really works!

Hey man.. thanks I've been trying to fix my lag forever... and you did it man. Smoothing off. Lol

Thank you!

helped a lot!!

Thanks for the help my dude!

wow thank you this is much better a lot

THANK YOU FOR THE BONUS

thank you very much art messiah

Thanks. Solved.

BIG THANKS MAN

Smoothing is what did it for me thx

hey can anyone help me I'm having this problem where whenever I use any photoshop tool like for example applying simple colors in the background I get this green loading bar that takes forever to load and I can't use photoshop properly I have a decent laptop and I don't think it's a hardware issue. I'd appreciate any responses thanks.

The last tip was enough for me 5:05 Thanks!

thnk you so much!!!

I have 8 core ryzen processor, rtx 3070 and 32 gb of ram. Photoshop eats all of these in like 8 minutes, starts lagging and then crashes. I tried everything you've shown in the video and it still didn't help. :(

it dont look smooth bro, it looks like you still got lag and you cappin

Photoshop never will give you the smooth brush struck of Clip Studio Paint. I see that what u call smooth, is what I call lagging in my computer. The brush is always ahead of the struck. Specially in long and fast lines. So Photoshop is not my drawing tool, but for what it was made: photo composition. Thanks for the tips anyway. Tried all of them, including calling Adobe, nothing works for me.

Summary: Turn off brush smoothing.

Aaamm ...Aaammm... !!!