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Adobe claims Lightroom Classic performance update

Wednesday 7 February 2018, 22:22 by Michelle Peeters | 5,479 views | 7 comments

This article was translated from Dutch with the help of AI. Read the original.

Adobe plans to provide Lightroom Classic CC with another update to improve the performance of the photo editing programme. The update should bring improvements for systems with multicore CPUs.

Adobe Lightroom Classic users have been longing for a serious performance update for ages. Even Adobe admitted that Lightroom's performance was mediocre and that improving it was a 'top priority'. Well, it seems that this 'top priority' is paying off very quickly.

According to DPReview, Adobe has indicated that it has made significant progress together with Intel in addressing performance problems on systems using multicore CPUs.

With version 7.2 of Lightroom Classic CC, any delays during prolonged adjustments to photo files will be a thing of the past, according to Adobe.

The software maker will continue to release further optimisations in the future. This will presumably involve improvements not only for Intel CPUs, but also for those from AMD, for example. Adobe has not tested the update on a system with an AMD CPU, however.

According to Adobe, version 7.2 of Lightroom Classic CC makes tasks such as exporting or importing photo files and combining photo files into a panorama or HDR photo faster.

Adobe tested this latest version on three systems:

An iMac Pro with a 3GHz Intel Xeon W processor and 32GB DDR4;
An AMD Vega 64 GPU;
A Windows 10 system with an Intel Core i9 7960X processor, 64GB of DDR4 memory and an Nvidia Quadro P2000 card.

On the iMac Pro, exporting one hundred edited raw files resulted in a speed increase of 29.5 per cent for JPEG files and 43.7 per cent for DNG files. On the Windows 10 system, these figures were 48.3 and 64.7 per cent respectively.

In July last year, Adobe admitted that the photo programme's performance was not optimal, even when a very powerful system was used. Tom Hagerty of Adobe said at the time that improving Lightroom's performance was a 'high priority'.

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7 comments

Jan wrote on Tuesday 13 February 2018 at 10:15 | reply
Hi Michelle, is it already known when this update would be released?
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Michelle Peeters wrote on Tuesday 13 February 2018 at 11:45 | reply
@Jan: as far as I can see, version 7.2 of Lightroom Classic has not been released yet. A fast multicore CPU computer and lots of memory plus disk space are definitely required!
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Ron Maarschalkerweerd wrote on Tuesday 13 February 2018 at 15:02 | reply
Adobe should first make a decent RAW engine without fooling users with their 2014 and 2012 setting. Try setting it to 2010 and you'll see more blown highlights. Adobe doesn't find all that blown highlight business very interesting, so they bend the linear a bit to make you see less blown red.
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Robert wrote on Tuesday 13 February 2018 at 15:48 | reply
Adobe software has been in a sorry state for years. I tried it for 3 years. Had to reinstall it 4 times and had the necessary licensing problems. Now that there are alternatives such as Affinity and Capture One, they are finally waking up. But they still deduct money from your account every month. I now work with Capture One and Pixelmator. The first one really has a super RAW converter, is super fast and has fantastic colour correction options. Never Adobe again.
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guest wrote on Tuesday 13 February 2018 at 16:07 | reply
Today update 7.2 was rolled out. I've gotten rid of a source of irritation now, perfect! Started working immediately after the installation, now 5 hours straight editing Raw files and haven't had any trouble at all with waiting times because LR was doing something! after a whole series of edits on
I a happy user (I already was, but now even more!
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guest wrote on Tuesday 13 February 2018 at 16:12 | reply
Today version 7.2 was rolled out. After the installation I immediately got to work editing nearly 500 Raw files. I am very pleasantly surprised, not once did I notice that I had to wait because LR was doing something in the background, after a number of edits I did have a delay because LR insisted on doing something.
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Rob Bot wrote on Tuesday 13 February 2018 at 16:32 | reply
Version 7.2 was rolled out today. Immediately after the installation I got to work editing around 500 large Raw files. After 5 hours of work, continuously, I didn't notice any slowdown or anything, not even with photos that had undergone a whole series of adjustments! Previously the waiting times were sometimes so bad that there was only one thing left to do. Close the program and restart it, only to have to do the same thing again after about 20 photos, very frustrating. Finally we're rid of this, though it's a real shame that they didn't work on this earlier with all the manpower available. A small apology from Adobe or a statement that this was a 1st priority for improvement would have been appropriate.
I had my doubts about what it could be due to, problems with my system? Fortunately not! I'm now an extremely satisfied user, I already was but now it's great!
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