TL;DR

General

Under Options Section

• 1. Uncheck Auto show the home screen (disable’s huge home screen)
• 2. Uncheck Use Legacy “New Document” Interface. (disable’s huge new document dialog)
• 3. Uncheck “Export Clipboard”
• 4. Resize image during place. (Personal preference)

Interface

Under Appearance section -

1. Turn off Drop Shadows on Tabs and windows

    . Standard Screen Mode -> Border -> None
    . Full Screen with Menus -> Border -> None
    . Full Screen -> Border -> None
    . Artboard -> Border -> Line
   

Workspace

• 1. Autocollaps Iconic Panels. (Personal preference)
• 2. Enable Narrow Options Bar. (Personal preference)

Tools

• 1. Uncheck Show Tooltips (Optional)
• 2. Uncheck Show rich Tooltips
• 3. Uncheck Enable gestures
• 4. Uncheck Enable Flick Panning
• 5. Check Show Reference point when using Transform.
• 6. Check Zoom With Scroll Wheel (Optional)
• 7. Uncheck Animated Zoom. (Personal preference)

File Handling

Under File Saving Options -

1. Set “Image Previews” To -> Never Save

Under File Compatibility Options -

1. Maximize PSD and PSB File Compatibility -> Never OR Always (Personal preference)
2. Recent File List Contains xxx Files. (Personal preference)

Performance

Memory Usage - Ram - (Personal preference)

    . If Lower than 16gb ->  70%
    . If Lower than 32GB and don't run other programs with PS (Google Chrome) ->  80-90%
    . If More than 32 GB and run other programs with PS (Google Chrome) ->  75-80%

History & Cache - (Personal preference)

1. History State - (Personal preference)

    . Powerful system configuration and high storage
        If Master of Photoshop and don't use the Undo option Much - Less history state ≤ 50
        If Still a beginner and don't use Undo option a lot -  More history states≥ 50-70
    . Weak system configuration and less storage - Less history state ≤ 50
   

2. Cache Levels -

    . If work with small size images( ≤	2k pixels) - Cache Level - 2
    . If work with large size images( ≥	2k pixels) - Cache Level - 4-6
   

3. Cache Tile Size -

    . Newer more powerful processors -> 128 K or 1024 K
    . Old less powerful processors -> 132 K or 1032 K
   

Legacy Compositing -

Only if having problems and Blending modes don’t look right, or the color is weird.

Scratch Disks

Set to SSD and non-startup drive

Cursers

• 1. Check Normal Brush Tip

Transparency & Gamut

1. Nothing to customize left to default.

Units & Rulers

1. Nothing to customize left to default.

Plug-Ins

Filters & Extension Panels -

• Uncheck If dont use extensions and plugins that require Internet.

Type

Type Options -

     Number of recent fonts to display - 5

3D - (Personal preference)

If you work with 3D objects you can tweak your performance here.

Technology Previews

Nothing to customize left to default.

Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous