Adobe plans to speed up Lightoom and improve its performance
Jul 11, 2017
Dunja Đuđić
Dunja Djudjic is a multi-talented artist based in Novi Sad, Serbia. With 15 years of experience as a photographer, she specializes in capturing the beauty of nature, travel, concerts, and fine art. In addition to her photography, Dunja also expresses her creativity through writing, embroidery, and jewelry making.
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Many Lightroom users have been complaining about the software being too slow. It seems that Adobe has heard the complaints, and they’ve made their top priority to improve the performance of Lightroom. In a blog post on Adobe’s website, they call the users to submit their complaints, and Adobe team shall collect the data and work on the improvements of the most common issues.
Adobe Photo Product Manager Tom Hogarty has published the blog post, addressing the users and inviting them to cooperate on the program improvement by filling out the survey:
I would like to address concerns recently voiced by our community of customers around Lightroom performance, as improving performance is our current top priority. We have a history, starting with our first public beta, of working with our customers to address workflow and feature needs, and we’d like to take that same approach regarding your performance concerns. We already understand many of the current pain points around GPU, import performance, certain editing tasks and review workflows and are investing heavily in improving those areas. Over the past year we’ve added numerous enhancements to address your performance concerns but we understand we will have a lot of work to do to meet your expectations. If you have feedback or would like to work with the Lightroom team on your most pressing issues, please fill out this survey.
I used to think Lightroom was laggy because of my ancient computer. But even after buying a new one, the program is still a bit slow. Still, it’s my favorite editing software, and I haven’t replaced with another one. Therefore, I’m looking forward to seeing the improvements.
[Adobe Blog via Reddit]
Dunja Đuđić
Dunja Djudjic is a multi-talented artist based in Novi Sad, Serbia. With 15 years of experience as a photographer, she specializes in capturing the beauty of nature, travel, concerts, and fine art. In addition to her photography, Dunja also expresses her creativity through writing, embroidery, and jewelry making.
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32 responses to “Adobe plans to speed up Lightoom and improve its performance”
Lightroom is dead to me. Hail Capture One.
Yup. It’s better for raw processing. I find my images way cleaner on CO
Exactly!
Capture One is essentially more accurate than Lightroom or Camera Raw. The colours are more precise, whereas Camera Raw and Lightroom desaturates them a little. The sharpening alone is much cleaner too.
As for file handling, it’s more complicated at first in terms of learning it but much better. You create new catalogues or sessions but they are never tied a “Capture One library” like Lightroom is. This makes it easier for moving around sessions to various devices rather than having it attached to a library. Basically it future proofs your shoots and simplifies archiving.
I like CO, I wish it would detect duplicates while exporting like LR does.
I use Lightroom for events only just because I have a few presets that haven’t mimicked in Capture One yet.
As for smart collections, it’s not a feature I ever use in Lightroom but maybe this will shed some light.
https://help.phaseone.com/en/CO8/Organizing-Photos/Smart-Albums.aspx
Anytime!
For all the interiors you do, Capture One will benefit you because it’s Keystoning features are stellar.
Does CO batch HDR? Photomatix has never had a feel I like, but they had a batch process, LR never has.
You can do HDR in it but I’m not sure about doing it in batch.
No contest! Except Fuji RAF’s still needs to be imported using LR – then opened in C1?
Sara I think you lose most edits if you migrate existing images over
Why Adobe Lightroom is dead for you?
Joel Gale useless if you shoot hasselblad or Fuji medium format or Pentax medium format anything phase one see as a competitor…
Since LR 3.0 it lag
at last…
Laggy as fuck.
After an SSD and a RAM upgrade its not so bad…….
Finally! I just built a new PC with Ryzen 1700 and RX480…still painfully slow.
Dont use it anymore after the slugfest started on version 4
I tried LR and Affinity I went with Affinity
It’s so slow and annoying. I do like the mobile sync tho.
I’ll believe it when I see it…
They keep making it faster, then it gets slower again.
I might start using it after all these years
Sooner than later please
Don’t use it.
I’m on 5.7 and no lag… Whatever!
Never used it, likely never will. Don’t force me into creating libraries! Bridge is brilliant, in that it is dumb.
Kind of late on their behalf.
If you can create some beautiful effects quickly and easily by downloading some of the wonderful Lightroom presets over on Envato Elements.
It’s my favorite editing software but it is little bit slow……