The power and performance that our equipment offers us natively will directly affect the operation of the applications that we install. This is something that is especially evident in certain programs such as video or photo editors. Precisely for all these reasons, these software solutions, as is the case with the popular GIMP , offer us some functions to improve their performance.
As probably most of you already know, in these times we work with multimedia content on very demanding occasions. The main reason for all this is the enormous quality that these files contain, whether we are talking about images or videos. For all these reasons, when we load them into memory to, for example, carry out editing tasks, their resource consumption can be high. Therefore, if we have a computer that is somewhat limited in terms of internal specifications, these works can negatively affect its operation.
But software developers, aware of all this, offer us some customizable functions to alleviate these drawbacks. In these lines we want to focus on one of the most popular and used photo editors, GIMP. This is an open source project that for many is an excellent alternative to the paid Adobe Photoshop program . In addition to all the functions related to image editing that it offers us, it also helps us to adapt the software to our equipment.
This will allow us to be able to use GIMP fluently , even if we have a somewhat limited PC in terms of resources. This is precisely what we are going to talk about next so that you can make these adjustments. We recommend you look at this configuration in order to adapt the software to the hardware available on your computer .
Adapt the GIMP photo editor to your computer
For all this that we tell you, the first thing we must do is put the open source image editor into operation in a conventional way. Next, we will have to access the application configuration section, something that we achieve through the Edit / Preferences menu. Here we find a new window in the left panel we will see all the sections that we can customize from here.
But the one that interests us in this specific case is the first of them, the so-called System Resources, where we click. At that moment, in the right panel we find the available options to optimize the operation of this software . In fact, here we will see a section called precisely Resource Consumption. It offers us some settings for these tasks that we must take into consideration.
It is worth knowing that here we can establish the amount of memory that the photo editor will use to save the steps that we are taking. This will directly affect the times that we can undo the changes made to the images. As we decrease this value, the RAM consumption will be less , although we will have fewer steps to undo. In the same way, we can also establish the amount of cache memory to be used by GIMP, or the maximum size of the photos that we can load in the program.
In parallel, we can activate hardware acceleration for the format of the thumbnails that are going to be displayed by default. Adjusting all this to our needs, we managed to increase the fluidity of GIMP operation.