Over the past 7 weeks, we've learned the pros and cons of non-destructive editing, how different computer components affect different areas of the program, and the ways you can adjust your Lightroom workflow to get the best performance.In the … Click to continue
Lightroom Performance – Workflow Tweaks
Besides optimizing your computer and Lightroom settings, you can also save yourself a lot of frustration by thinking ahead and allowing your computer to do many of its processor-intensive activities at a time when you're not using the computer. Let's … Click to continue
Lightroom Performance – Previews & Caches
Lightroom uses numerous kinds of previews and caches for different purposes. Having a basic idea of their usage can help you pick the right ones for your needs. The main ones you need to know about are rendered previews and smart previews. To fully … Click to continue
Lightroom Performance – Preferences & Catalog Settings
In addition to optimizing the computer, you can optimize your Lightroom preferences and catalog settings for best performance. Lightroom Updates Lightroom is usually updated every 2-4 months, and these updates frequently include … Click to continue
Lightroom Performance – General System Maintenance
Lightroom can't perform well if the operating system is struggling. While not specific to Lightroom, it's worth running regular computer maintenance and optimizing other software running on your computer. This includes operating system and driver … Click to continue
Lightroom Performance – What Computer Hardware Do I Need?
Every single day, we see posts asking how to choose a new computer for Lightroom. We're not going to go into specific hardware recommendations, because they'd be out of date almost immediately. (If you want specifics, Puget Systems are doing regular … Click to continue
Lightroom Performance – Debunking Myths
In prepping this series of articles, we read much of the information already published elsewhere. Some of the suggestions work. Others are complete myths. Some of the advice (including in our old blog post!) is simply outdated. Some suggestions can … Click to continue
Lightroom Performance – The Complete Series on Optimizing Lightroom’s Speed
The speed of Lightroom - or the lack thereof - is one of the most popular topics among photographers. You may have asked questions such as "why is Lightroom so painfully slow?". "How do I speed up Lightroom?". "How do I make Lightroom run faster?". … Click to continue
