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Hello all,

I am currently having a little problem working with Photoshop: I am designing posters and other prints for a festival here, and we usually print the largest posters on A1 intl paper full color. That means working in a huge 300dpi file with quite a lot of layers.

The issue I'm having trouble with concerns the loading and saving of the files (the biggest ones are around 1.1GigaByte). Simply loading the file into PS takes over 5 minutes, slowing down my computer drastically. Saving the file in a .psd format takes even longer, over 10 minutes sometimes.

I doubt this is an issue with the computer, as it has reasonable specs and is only a few months old. So I was wondering if you guys have some tips as to reduce the file size of these .psds and thereby optimize their loading time. Because working like this is extremely time consuming and unproductive...

Thanks in advance!