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My screen flickers in Photoshop on my 2013 Macbook Air.

I just got the new Macbook Air 13", when I use the brush tool in Photoshop CS6 and it goes over 100px my screen starts to flicker wildly, its completly unusable.


Ive tried turning the graphics card prossesing on and off, basic, advanced etc... Nothing works.

Any ideas?


Thank you.

MacBook Air (13-inch Mid 2013), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4)

Posted on Jun 18, 2013 1:27 AM

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Jun 28, 2013 4:45 PM in response to stumbleone

Stumnleone- do you have time and/resources to install the cs6 demo and see if you can reproduce this for us? You are the first person I have seen here running CS3....possible it works i guess but personally think this pointing to a hardware issue in the first batch or whatever.


I am still so happy that apple is responding to this, it has been at the top of the MBA support forum for over a week with no rep saying anything useful or even that they are looking into this.


I am using CS6 by the way as well so definatly not isloated to CC. others have had same issues in CS4.


I have no wifi issues on this MBA but do on my 2013 mac mini......


Has anyone tried reproducing the problem in other grpahics maniplation softwares like illustrator, coral draw ect? I can try illustrator and GIMP and post back later.......

Jun 28, 2013 6:10 PM in response to staringispolite

Well, did as you suggested, drew mickey mouse faces on the image for 5 minutes. Opened up an HD video to run in background to stress the GPU a bit more.


Absolutely no problems.


My machine apparently is not going to exhibit the issue that other folks have, and I really can't complain about that.


So hope that helps - or not? - wish you all the best of luck.

Jul 2, 2013 10:59 AM in response to Lewitje

Add me to the list. I'm running Photoshop CC on a core i7 2013 Macbook Air with 8gb of RAM.


I just noticed it today when I zoomed into the image. At first I thought just the image flickered but then I kept moving the cursor and the flicker only got worse. What started as a black flicker across the bottom of the screen became the entire screen shaking and warping.


I was able to close Photoshop and the problem ended. I then restarted the computer and was able to go into the image without it flickering.

My screen flickers in Photoshop on my 2013 Macbook Air.

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