Lightroom 5 is out.....

Refill wrote in post #16048060
Nor sure about that. My first complain was about browsing RAWS, 1/1 previews, so it's probably not about disk read/write speed, but more about processor and RAM. This has been discussed before, and from other posters experience, there is not much to do about it, except using another software for the first step, preview and selection of large quantities of RAWS.

what CPU you got? SSD would improve any build by huge margin, the slowest part of lightroom is database/catalog.

Refill wrote in post #16048060
Nor sure about that. My first complain was about browsing RAWS, 1/1 previews, so it's probably not about disk read/write speed, but more about processor and RAM. This has been discussed before, and from other posters experience, there is not much to do about it, except using another software for the first step, preview and selection of large quantities of RAWS.

nekrosoft13 wrote in post #16049714
what CPU you got? SSD would improve any build by huge margin, the slowest part of lightroom is database/catalog.

You know, one thing that has become apparent over the years is that apps like Lightroom use a complexity of resources and when there is a performance bottleneck/problem, the "cause" of that problem could be one (or more) of numerous components, and so the solution for a given system will need to match the cause of the problem!

An SSD is certainly a good "starting point", as is more RAM and an up-to-date processor...

That being said, I've been using Lightroom for a number of years on a PC that is several years old (7 or so), it now has a quad-core processor and 8 GB of RAM (the most it can take) but it is still far from being "state of the art), but I don't see the problems that some people report. Sure, Lightroom (as well as Photoshop) doesn't act like a "speed demon" (I have LR4, haven't tried LR5) but Oh Well, it does the job!

@tonylong & nekro:

There is no problem with my system. It's not brand new, i5, 8G RAM, but it runs fine. Lr was the problem. It is too slow when you have to browse thousands of photos at 100%. I added 4G RAM, and gained 15% speed when browsing, which is not bad, but not enough. The solution was easy. Use another software, problem solved! Lr is a very good tool, but not for the first selection, at least when you come home with a lot of photos.

Refill wrote in post #16051834
Lr is a very good tool, but not for the first selection, at least when you come home with a lot of photos.

Well, my PC is even older than yours (the processor has a Q in front of the number, no iX available in those days. For my first upgrade I had the choice between a 160GB SSD or moving from 4 to 8 GB of RAM. Both were about the same price (around £350). Everything I'd read suggested that a memory upgrade would have the biggest impact, but I decided to go for the SSD.

It turned out to be an excellent choice. Everything speeded up enormously. I'd thought that Preview generation in LR would be processor-intensive. But that was speeded up by 45% LINK

Later, when the price had dropped a lot, I did the RAM upgrade - and hardly noticed any difference. LR4 still runs at an acceptable speed and I'm sure LR5 will be just as fast.

However, I agree about it being a bit slow for initial culling when you have a lot of images with just a few keepers. I use FastStone for that. Embedded jpegs are good enough to tell dross from potentially usable.

Refill wrote in post #16051834
@tonylong & nekro:

There is no problem with my system. It's not brand new, i5, 8G RAM, but it runs fine. Lr was the problem. It is too slow when you have to browse thousands of photos at 100%. I added 4G RAM, and gained 15% speed when browsing, which is not bad, but not enough. The solution was easy. Use another software, problem solved! Lr is a very good tool, but not for the first selection, at least when you come home with a lot of photos.

i5 is perfectly fine. Like I said before get SSD. when you browse thousands of photos, your catalog file might be 800-1500MB and thumbnails might be another 20-40GB (with 20,000-60,000 files). SSD will fetch all of that data much faster.

just ordered my boxed upgrade from amazon. cant wait to upgrade from LR3 and to check it out. hopefully my 5yr old macbook keeps up! C2D 2ghz, 4gb DDR3-1067 ram, ssd+hd

hollis_f wrote in post #16052178
Well, my PC is even older than yours (the processor has a Q in front of the number, no iX available in those days. For my first upgrade I had the choice between a 160GB SSD or moving from 4 to 8 GB of RAM. Both were about the same price (around £350). Everything I'd read suggested that a memory upgrade would have the biggest impact, but I decided to go for the SSD.

It turned out to be an excellent choice. Everything speeded up enormously. I'd thought that Preview generation in LR would be processor-intensive. But that was speeded up by 45% LINK

Later, when the price had dropped a lot, I did the RAM upgrade - and hardly noticed any difference. LR4 still runs at an acceptable speed and I'm sure LR5 will be just as fast.

However, I agree about it being a bit slow for initial culling when you have a lot of images with just a few keepers. I use FastStone for that. Embedded jpegs are good enough to tell dross from potentially usable.

I have others viewers available from which I can view the contents of my SD card directly and delete the ones that are obviously not keepers. I then import the definites and maybes in to Lightroom and perform the next cut in the Library before performing any PP. And finally after PP i perform the last cut and delete the remaining images that I'm just not happy with. Its rare that actually import more than around two hundred images at one time. More often its closer to around 50-75 shots and sometimes less. Import speed has never been an issue for me.

If I bought LR4 less than a month ago, do I get free upgrade? Any stipulations?

Grumpy_one wrote in post #16052807
If I bought LR4 less than a month ago, do I get free upgrade? Any stipulations?

Adobe will give you a free installation of LR5 if you have just recently bought LR4. I don't have the link handy, but it's popped up here in recent days.

Grumpy_one wrote in post #16052807
If I bought LR4 less than a month ago, do I get free upgrade? Any stipulations?

Just to add, do back a few posts in this thread and it's being discussed:

https://photography-on-the.net …?p=16042391&pos​tcount=136

Grumpy_one wrote in post #16052807
If I bought LR4 less than a month ago, do I get free upgrade? Any stipulations?

Information about the Complimentary Upgrade and links are on the link below:

http://helpx.adobe.com …product-announcement.html

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Refill wrote in post #16051834
@tonylong & nekro:

There is no problem with my system. It's not brand new, i5, 8G RAM, but it runs fine. Lr was the problem. It is too slow when you have to browse thousands of photos at 100%. I added 4G RAM, and gained 15% speed when browsing, which is not bad, but not enough. The solution was easy. Use another software, problem solved! Lr is a very good tool, but not for the first selection, at least when you come home with a lot of photos.

If you are having issues it's your system and the way you've set up the software:

- As already mentioned, an SSD can make a huge difference
- Camera RAW cache settings need to be increased to a max of 20GB
- Standard Preview Size in catalog settings needs to be set to a number of pixels higher than the horizontal spec for your monitor (for my 1920 x 1200 monitor it's set to 2048).
- 8GB RAM is ok'ish. I have 12, but my next system will have 16 min and more likely 32GB.
- I assume that you are running 64 bit Win 7 ... but if you're running 32 bit that would be big part of your problem
- If you are going to be working on the same group of images over a long period of time and have lots of HDD space then increase the time you keep 1:1 previews to something like a month

I have close to 30,000 images in my catalog and it works fine. I even auto write to XMP and don't experience any slowness. To me it's the ultimate tool if you are dealing with thousands of images.

ekinnyc wrote in post #16052434
just ordered my boxed upgrade from amazon. cant wait to upgrade from LR3 and to check it out. hopefully my 5yr old macbook keeps up! C2D 2ghz, 4gb DDR3-1067 ram, ssd+hd

I cannot find any location where a boxed set for upgrade is available. I spoke with a rep just 5 minutes ago and she stated that Adobe is not providing boxed sets for upgrade.
I tried Amazon as you mentioned and cannot find it.

Do you remember how you found a copy?
Thanks

pbelarge wrote in post #16054673
I cannot find any location where a boxed set for upgrade is available. I spoke with a rep just 5 minutes ago and she stated that Adobe is not providing boxed sets for upgrade.
I tried Amazon as you mentioned and cannot find it.

Do you remember how you found a copy?

I assume this is what they were referring to:

http://www.amazon.com …words=lightroom​+5+upgrade

I'm sorry, but you didn't read my post correctly.

I have already discussed this Lr issue with other forum members, and the only way is to use another software for this task (selection at 100% among huge number of RAW images, I also tried 1:1 previews rendering, which was even more time consuming). I already went from 4 to 8G ram on my home computer just because of this Lr5 issue, but now I deleted Lr (and kept the 8G of course! but 4G was fine for all other apps). And yes, I have win7 64bits pro.

Bob_A wrote in post #16053423
If you are having issues it's your system and the way you've set up the software:

- As already mentioned, an SSD can make a huge difference
- Camera RAW cache settings need to be increased to a max of 20GB
- Standard Preview Size in catalog settings needs to be set to a number of pixels higher than the horizontal spec for your monitor (for my 1920 x 1200 monitor it's set to 2048).
- 8GB RAM is ok'ish. I have 12, but my next system will have 16 min and more likely 32GB.
- I assume that you are running 64 bit Win 7 ... but if you're running 32 bit that would be big part of your problem
- If you are going to be working on the same group of images over a long period of time and have lots of HDD space then increase the time you keep 1:1 previews to something like a month

I have close to 30,000 images in my catalog and it works fine. I even auto write to XMP and don't experience any slowness. To me it's the ultimate tool if you are dealing with thousands of images.