Getting the best performance from Photoshop
Be sure you’re getting the best performance you can in Photoshop. I’ve reorganized and expanded my tips page.
If you’re using Canon’s Digital Photo Professional, read about using multiple batch workers to use all the CPU cores to the fullest.
This is what you want to see on an 8-core Mac Pro: all 8 cores gainfully employed (green and red indicate usage, black areas are idle time).