The Mac Performance Guide from Lloyd Chambers has a post on a new plugin that can dramatically cut the time it takes Photoshop to save a very large (1GB and up) layered image file. In one test of a Mac Pro with a three-drive SSD RAID, the new plugin cut the save time for a 2.88GB PSD file from 130 seconds to 8 seconds.
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