Welcome to the retouchartists.com Photoshop speed test. After weeks of research and many hours of consultation with fellow creative professionals we have designed, built and tested an action that runs a mixture or real world operations. This enables you to test your systems efficiency against other machines, which allows you to optimize your machine for the fastest Photoshop results. It is also a helpful tool for creative professionals looking to upgrade their systems, letting them compare Photoshop speeds with possible system purchases. This test is fast becoming a standard in quality for real world speed testing, it is to be used by Apple computers, Poland, to bench test their upcoming hardware against previous generation machines. It’s also been used by one of the internets largest Mac benchmarking websites, www.barefeats.com and is going to be featured in well known author - Martin Evening’s upcoming CS3 revision of his superb ‘Adobe Photoshop CS2 for Photographers’ book. So from the professionals that tested it (Fine art printers, Photoshop professionals, designers and photographers) to the organisations endorsing and using it, you can be certain that you are using a fair and reliable test. Before running this test, restart Photoshop and read the ‘read me’ file included with the download, fully before running. To run the speed test on your own system you can download the 3.42mb zip file (including image and action) from this Download location. To submit your own systems results into the system click Here. Click Here to view the table of results.