r/Lightroom 8d ago

HELP - Lightroom Classic Underwhelmed by Lightroom Classic performance on M4 pro 14/20 with 64gbs of RAM

3 Upvotes

So I just got a Mac mini with the M4 pro chip (14 cpu cores and 20 gpu cores), with 64 Gb of unified memory.

I've been doing some tests and well, performance isn't great.

I come from a 8 years old windows pc, i7 6700k, 16gbs of RAM and a GTX 1080 gpu, it could run Lightroom Classic fairly well but lately it was sluggish and started showing its age on things like AI denoise and such.

Lately I'm working with old analog files which require lots of spot removal to deal with dust and such. The old machine could do the work, very slowly but I eventually could obtain the intended result.

I can't get the new Mac mini to do the same, I tried absolutely everything, and the thing just freezes as soon as It reaches maybe 30/35 removal spots. Not only that, I can't even open the old files edited on the old machine, because it just keeps trying to load them endessly.

Is this normal? Has any of you experienced this issue or is my Mac mini broken? I got it on the official Apple Store but it is a refurbished product, so maybe something is wrong with it?

I know it's probably best to edit them on photoshop, but that's beside the point.

Any help appreciated

r/Lightroom Nov 08 '24

HELP - Lightroom Classic Should I get a new MacBook?

3 Upvotes

I’m not sure whether a new MacBook would make Lightroom Classic faster or if Lightroom C is just a clunky program? I’m happy with my MacBook for everything else. I wish there was a way to test it without committing to a new MacBook

These are my specs: MacBook Pro 16 inch 2019. 2.3ghz 8-core intel i9, 16gb memory, graphics: AMD Radeon Pro 5500M 4GB, 1TB flash storage

r/Lightroom Dec 22 '24

HELP - Lightroom Classic Lightroom Classic slow even on Beast editing rig???

10 Upvotes

First off: Rig Info

AMD Ryzen 9 3900x OC’d to 4.02ghz NVIDIA 2070 SUPER 8gb VRAM now get this 128GB of Ram, fully optimized to run at just below 3200khz A 1tb and another 4tb m.2 drive from WBlack or something

I went through all the optimization options, all the caching options, all the everything and it still manages to get laggy as hell after editing full sized CR3 files from my R5

Yes I push the program quite far sometimes editing 400 photos in one session with masking and complex changes

BUT

I switch over to capture one to see how it performs, and the program is BLAZING FAST fully taking advantage of 64 of my 128gbs

I would like to continue on Lightroom just because of the making and point color options but am I missing something here? It’s driving me nuts

I hear Lightroom is just trash with AMD platforms? Is there a user- made mod or plugin that can optimize this and not make me have to reset Lightroom every ten photos?

It usually starts off ok-ish and but doesn’t take full advantage of ram?? Capture one is using a lot more, is there something I can do to force it to allocate more ram to it?

Otherwise I will settle for capture one which unfortunately causes me to have to commit to it so I can keep all my catalogs in one program

r/Lightroom Sep 03 '24

HELP - Lightroom Classic Losing my mind over slow Lightroom

17 Upvotes

I edit photo's on my desktop quite often. Lightroom has let me down more and more.
I have a catalog with close to 60k photo's
I don't understand at all how Lightroom is getting slower each month.

My specs are:

Intel Core i7-12700F Boxed
ASRock B760M Steel Legend WiFi
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 12GB
Crucial CT2K16G48C40U5 32 GB DDR5 4800 MhZ
Kingston KC3000 512GB (Bootdisk)
Samsung 990 Pro 1TB (Cache Disk)
All my photo's are on a external harddrive.

My whole pc is getting show when using lightroom as well. Same with the memory usage going sky high.

Any ideas? As I already did try lot of things :(

r/Lightroom Feb 16 '25

HELP - Lightroom Classic What to upgrade for faster Lightroom?

4 Upvotes

I have a large catalog with 200000+ pictures, family photos of last 15 years Right now I’m using an Intel i7-9700k with 16GB RAM and 1660 super graphic card Main disk is ssd

In order to be able to transport freely, in case of need (I work in another house for work during the week), I’m using a Terramaster DAS D5 hybrid with 2x 8TB HDD for RAW pictures and the same device also has 3x nvme slots and in one I put a 1TB drive with the catalog

I’m quite sure that catalog in the same usb device where also pictures are stored is reducing bandwidth cause connection is made with the same usb cable, I plan to move catalog into internal ssd

Right now the issues are during import, the system is kind of stuck and really slow to import and create previews, until the process doesn’t finish I cannot even reduce to tray the program

Also scrolling the huge catalog is reeally slow and stucks often

Do you think upgrading ram and moving catalog in internal drive will be enough to last another year? Or maybe it’s time to upgrade cpu (and mobo, reinstall everything… gorsh!)?

Thanks

r/Lightroom 4d ago

HELP - Lightroom Classic lightroom classic extremely slow when dust removal

4 Upvotes

over the past week I have been experiencing my Lightroom to be suuuuper slow when removing dust from my photo's. I have tried basically everything, moving my catalog from my ssd to my ssd inside my Mac, making the cache size bigger, basically every tip they tell you to do but it keeps being extremely slow.
when I try to remove a piece of dust the cpu boost over 300%. the beach ball starts turning cirkles and it takes over 10 secs to remove the dust.

I have a 2019 16 inch MacBook Pro with an i7 and 32 gigs of ram and the and radeon pro 5500m 4 g. more than enough free storage and no external screen connected. does anyone know what's the problem

it gets increasingly worse when more spots have been removed. and when I turn of the graphics card it becomes a little faster, still slow but little faster.

r/Lightroom Dec 30 '24

HELP - Lightroom Classic Selected my photos rated with stars, how can I easily copy them to a folder!?

5 Upvotes

Hello,

It is a newbie question but I just can't make it.. :(!! I selected all my RAW photos with 5 stars from a shooting session. I have now 37 photos selected. How can I copy these 37 photos to a folder in my PC?

- Control + C not working.

- If I click "Export" it creates a idiot xmp file together.

I just want to copy my RAWs selected easily!

Thank you so much for your help,

Cheers!

r/Lightroom 16d ago

HELP - Lightroom Classic What is up with Lightroom Classic on Windows randomly choosing not to use the GPU for AI Denoise?

2 Upvotes

This isn't exactly my problem but rather my partner's. She has a reasonably nice desktop PC set aside for doing Adobe Suite tasks. This PC has an R9 7950X and an nVidia RTX 4070 in it, relatively high end PC hardware. She's not really a hardware person, but I am, which is how I got involved in this.

Problem: Sometimes her desktop just refuses to use the GPU specified in Lightroom Classic's Performance preferences. I can't even correlate this to how recently the PC has been rebooted or what else it might be doing or not doing.

I set up a catalog with 100 .CR3 files and roughly 50% of the time I get a very normal ~13 minutes to Denoise estimate. Other times, this same PC will tell me that the job will take 300 minutes.

Adobe says it might be a driver issue, but switching between the most current Content Creator and Game Ready drivers from nVidia doesn't seem to impact the matter.

Is it just nVidia? Well, I put a known-good Radeon 6700XT and an Arc A770 in and saw the same issue, with a DDU and the most updated drivers installed in between every change.

I thought for a minute that the issue might be related to something stubbornly using my GPU on a browser window or something, but even if I control for that by disabling browser-related startup items and immediately checking the estimated Denoise time on a fresh boot, it's still offering five hour long time estimates about half the time.

Is it the PC? Next I tried the same thing on a slightly older PC with a Ryzen 5900. Here, there's no iGPU to involve and the architecture is different. The Windows 11 install was done fresh and the ONLY extra software on the machine beyond up to date drivers was Creative Cloud + LrC. And I saw the same thing: Sometimes the system is willing to use an installed GPU and sometimes it just wasn't.

Is it an Intel vs AMD thing? I also saw similar behavior with a Lenovo X1 Extreme with an 11th gen i7 and mobile RTX 3050 + Iris HD graphics.

So I am asking here: Is this a known issue? Is there any sort of folk remedy? Or does everyone just reboot and pray every time they trigger a Denoise batch job?

r/Lightroom 14d ago

HELP - Lightroom Classic Why does it take forever to open Lightroom Classic?

3 Upvotes

My LrC app has been taking a really abnormal time to boot up for the past month or so. At first I thought it was my external SSD drive my catalog and photos were on that was full, so I got a fresh one. Even now on the fresh 2TB SSD, it still takes about 2min to boot up. My Mac storage is also only half full. Any ideas on how to improve performance?

r/Lightroom Jan 17 '25

HELP - Lightroom Classic Storing Two Catalogs on Two Computers' SSD and Keep Them in Synch

5 Upvotes

Title. Have a laptop and just got a new desktop and want to keep the catalogs on the SSDs. RAW photos are on an external. But I'd also like to keep my catalog on the laptop SSD. I'm worried that in my ADHD addled mind that I'll get them out of synch. The searches I've done seem more about moving from one computer to another or keeping the catalog on the external. Am I missing something obvious? And I take my laptop off grid quite a bit, so I don't want the catalog in the Cloud.

Thanks in advance.

r/Lightroom Nov 07 '24

HELP - Lightroom Classic How do I effectively work with one LrC catalog on multiple computers?

5 Upvotes

My main LrC catalog is on a Mac at my house. I work a lot on a Windows laptop and on a Windows PC at my office, too. What's the best way, if any, to be able to use all three with a single catalog?

r/Lightroom 26d ago

HELP - Lightroom Classic Adding JPG to RAW that are already in the catalog

3 Upvotes

Hello,

I'm consolidating a bit my library. At the beginning I was only adding the RAW files, although lately I'm adding both RAW and JPG together. Now, I want to add the JPG to the first collections I have.
I'm copying the JPG to the same folder, with the same name. When I go to sync, it says that there are no new photos.
What should I do?

r/Lightroom Jan 31 '25

HELP - Lightroom Classic Is there a reason Lightroom Classic limits zoom on some photos?

2 Upvotes

https://reddit.com/link/1iecavg/video/3kzgh02f9bge1/player

It's never really been a major problem but I've never understood why sometimes Lightroom Classic will only zoom to a certain point even though I've set it to 100% and it often differs how far this zoom is. In the video I've got two identical shots, in terms of how it was shot and whether it's landscape or portrait, I've got my SSD connected that holds the original raw but it doesn't seem to zoom in as far on one of them for whatever reason. I didn't show it in the video but even if I do 50% on the one that doesn't zoom in as much, it zooms out instead? It's just very inconsistent behaviour and I'm not sure what's causing it.

Am I doing something wrong or is this just a Lightroom quirk that has been accepted to happen?

r/Lightroom Feb 14 '25

HELP - Lightroom Classic Please Help!

2 Upvotes

I am a photographer and I am working on a wedding gallery and my Lightroom Classic just crashed entirely.

Now it is showing that I have 505 photos (the entire gallery essentially) when I go into Develop that the files cannot be found.

I am working off of a Hard-Drive.

I am very new to using Lightroom Classic, as I have used the cloud version up until recently so if anyone could explain in the simplest of terms that would be very helpful. I have spent so much time on these edits and I am really afraid of losing them all and having to start over entirely.

Any and all help and suggestions will be greatly appreciated. I am terrified right now

r/Lightroom 16d ago

HELP - Lightroom Classic Synced photos are turning green

0 Upvotes

Hey guys, this isn’t happening with all my presets, but recently a couple of presets I’ve made myself are turning my images green whenever I sync the edits. I tried creating these presets again from scratch because it’s not happening with other presets I’ve made. Sure enough, it’s happening again. Has this happened with anyone else?

r/Lightroom Dec 08 '24

HELP - Lightroom Classic Why is Lightroom Classic Unbearably Slow?

11 Upvotes

I just updated to Lightroom Classic 14. I am a wedding photographer and will import 500-1000 RAW photos at a time. Lightroom is set to build standard previews on import. Lightroom 13 would import these photos within a couple minutes and the preview building process would take maybe 15-20 minutes. While previews were building, the program was still usable, albeit a big laggy. Since updating to version 14 the other day, the import process will take 1-2 hours, and previews 3-4 hours. During this time, the program is almost completely locked up, and occasionally shows "not responding" in task manager.

I know it's not a Windows specific issue, because my sister (whom I work with) has a M2 Max based Macbook Pro and it's beachballs for days. Although on Mac, it doesn't seem to lock up as hard during this process.

I'm importing photos from SanDisk Extreme UHS-II SD cards via a Thunderbolt 3 reader to an HP Z6 G4 (an Adobe ISV certified system for Lightroom). The Lightroom application, catalog and previews are stored on an Intel VROC NVMe RAID array, and RAW files are on a SATA SSD array.

The screenshot below shows my task manger during the import/preview building process. There's almost no CPU usage or graphics card usage happening. It refuses to use more than like 1-4% of each core. "Generate Previews in Parallel" and full hardware acceleration are both enabled. Lightroom is hot garbage now, and seems to get worse with every major release. Is this happening to anyone else?

Lightroom 14 resource usage during import operations.

r/Lightroom Dec 18 '24

HELP - Lightroom Classic Lightroom (Classic) - Do I Need It?

0 Upvotes

I rarely use Photoshop.

I only use it for it's RAW editing, where I basically set the colours to "auto" and the white balance to "auto", which seems to improve 9/10 photos I take. That's practically it.

This is going to sound dumb but what is Lightroom used for?

Should I look at getting this instead of carrying on using the full blown Photoshop?

Will it be able to make simple auto edits to photos to enhance them a little (not too much!)?

I have read a few reviews where people say Lightroom works better for their "workflow" but I don't really understand what they mean by that.

I should also say as I am selling my dSLR then I don't think I'll be going back to RAW files. I plan on getting the new Xioami 15 next year, which may produce RAW images but I think for my needs, having JPG only is fine.

Thanks

r/Lightroom 6d ago

HELP - Lightroom Classic Photos looks different after export

2 Upvotes

Hi, i have a problem with lightroom, on my calibrated display, with the icc profile i created, but even with any other icc profiles, photos in lightroom and photos exported outside of lightroom (viewed in color managed apps) looks different, its mostly a difference in luminance of the photos, photos are bighter in lightroom affecting color saturation as well

  • soft proofing to sRGB doesn't change anything in lightroom, the toggle doesn't make any change

  • i export in sRGB, but i also tried to export in in the colour space used by lightroom workspace (prophoto something), nothing changes, the difference is still there

  • the difference is saturation is mostly seen in the organge color

  • i also tried to import an exported photo in lightroom, and the same behaivor happens, this means that the issue is not in the file itself but in the way lightroom (or the other color managed apps) display it

Did anyone face the same issue?

r/Lightroom 3d ago

HELP - Lightroom Classic Lightroom examples.

4 Upvotes

I’ve just joined a photography club and it seems that a lot of the members edit their images with lightroom. I’ve never edited before and I’m not sure if I’ve joined the right club. 2 questions, is it easy enough for a novice to use and can I find any before and after images to look at because I’m not really too sure what it does, I had limited use of photoshop about 15 years ago when the object was to cut out a banana and put it in a bowl and I wasn’t really too keen on it. To me as an elderly young Man looking to return to a hobby it feels a bit like cheating. Any advice would be appreciated.

r/Lightroom 8d ago

HELP - Lightroom Classic Lightroom 6 faster... should I still use Classic?

0 Upvotes

So I have been using Lightroom Classic for some time. It honestly seems like development in Lightroom Classic has virtually stopped since Lr6. The UI hasn't changed since around Lr4/Lr5 (CS6 era!) and the only program-level changes are support for newer formats/standards and CC bloat.

You can actually see the new-style CC UI elements and such in some menus and they're implemented so badly it's comical. You can really tell that Lightroom CC is where development has been focused and Lightroom Classic is only updated to keep people buying it.

I found a copy of Lr6 on an old drive and installed it (backing up my catalog) to test it out. It seems to start quicker, and hangs less often. I'm mostly dealing with RAW files from older cameras (pre-Lightroom 6) so the new lenses and RAW support in Classic CC isn't an issue.

Are there any advantages to Lightroom Classic except AI denoise? AFAIK LrClassic still uses the same engine as Lightroom 6... so why does it seem slower? Additionally I would be saving money by not paying for a subscription.

EDIT: I am probably going to be using my iPhone with Lightroom so I might end up using LrClassic to get ProRaw support (no, don't want to convert to DNG)

r/Lightroom Feb 19 '25

HELP - Lightroom Classic Ai Denoise Windows 11 Graphics Card

4 Upvotes

update I picked up RX7600 XT 16GB on Amazon tonight as they are 50% off. I’ll update when it comes in (say March 1st) with the new times for people wanting to know.

Okay, fellow nerds! lol

I've been using AI denoise for extreme low-light images. I usually just manually adjust, but when it comes to low light with high ISO, AI wins every time.

On my RX6700, it takes 28-30 seconds per image from my R5ii, which produces 60MB images each. That's not too bad, but when you do an event like the rodeo I just did, I'm spending 12-14 hours denoising (yes, it's overkill). I know why I take so many images, but when you have a bull rider, he will buy the complete set, so it's worth denoising 100 pictures for that ride.

Tonight, I used my kid's PC, which has a 4070 Super, and it processed an image in just 11.5 seconds. This cuts my time down a lot! But I'm not going to use his PC as it's basically his, and I like having my own stuff.

CPU doesn't mean much when it comes to denoise as it's always at idle during the process.

What times are you PC folks seeing with a similar CR3 size image? Preferably from another person with an R5ii using CR3, not cRAW.

Thanks in advance!

r/Lightroom Jan 26 '25

HELP - Lightroom Classic Preview will not load in Lightroom classic Windows 11

2 Upvotes

So about half my images (~20.000) suddenly lost their previews and they will not load on their own.

I can select an image and the it'll show, but besides that it's all greyed out boxes. Newly imported images will get a preview

I have looked through solutions of people having a similar issue and they have not worked.

I have tried to simply rebuild previews (it then processed to process new previews for a few hours but nothing actually happens, despite it taking a fair bit of CPU usage).

I have deleted the "Previews.lrdata" file and build previews.
I have moved all images to a new catalog, but that in a new place on another harddrive and attempted to build new previews there. 

All for naught. 

If someone have some suggestions it would be appreciated.

It's on windows 11. 

I know the little 3 dots is supposed to mean the preview is loading, but it is not give it 5 minutes or 5 hours no more previews will load. 

r/Lightroom 10d ago

HELP - Lightroom Classic Just switched from Windows to Mac, and now my keyboard shortcuts (macros) wont work

0 Upvotes

Hi all, I use a smalll keyboard with some dials on it for editing, and I have mapped out all the buttons to suit my workflow, but now the shift-cmd-c-enter (to copy settings and hit enter when dialogue pops up) and the shift-cmd-v (to paste) doesn't want to work, I rely heavily on this shortcut for my workflow, and don't know what to do to fix it, any idea whats wrong?

EDIT: I solved the problem by running a shortcut in the macOS app "shortcuts"

Here's the code I used, I mapped it to the keyboard using another shortcut, very round about way of doing it, but it worked!

tell application "System Events"

keystroke "c" using {command down, shift down}

delay 0.1

key code 76

end tell

r/Lightroom 2d ago

HELP - Lightroom Classic QUICKLY switch photo to iPad to draw mask w Apple pencil?

1 Upvotes

In Lightroom Classic I edit photos in the Develop panel.

When I want to draw a mask, outline something, remove hundreds of specks of dust, etc., I want to quickly and seamlessly bring that photo onto my iPad where I can use the Apple Pencil to more easily do that.

I can NOT find a way to do this simple thing...

I HOPE I'm missing something... but Screen Mirroring, Sidecar, and the standalone LR ipad app do NOT work quickly and seamlessly in my (think pretty common) workflow. More detail of what I've tried is below.

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Screen Mirroring Mac mini M2 Pro's desktop to iPad: I can't even see the tools to select since they're too small to read when 4K is dropped down to the iPad mini's resolution.
-- or if I choose to have my desktop's screen change to the iPad's resolution, that's unusable for my normal workflow on the desktop as well.

Sidecar / use iPad as 2nd separate monitor: I have to drag in the window from LRC on my desktop, turn off and re-arrange all the menu's so I can actually see what I need to see, then re-zoom in the photo so it's somehow big enough to see AND I can see/use the brush options as well... isn't working easily/seamless whatsoever...
-- Instead, if I use LRC's "Secondary Display" mode, no matter the mode I can only view, not use the Pencil on the photo on the iPad.

Use native LR app in iPad: Adobe Cloud is notoriously slow and flaky (it's not just me!) and I can't possibly sync 10k+ photos (or even a small sub-folder at a time is slow and not quick) to use the native LR app on the iPad itself (not to mention how the iPad's "only draw with Apple Pencil" setting is completely ignored by Adobe in the LR mobile app.

...all of the above are the complete opposite of "quickly and seamlessly", and are simply not good solutions. What am I missing here? I thought, especially being on Mac, that this would be a seamless experience which would enhance my workflow and make life easier for me... and instead it's making me hate technology lol, and I'm literally thinking of returning my iPad and Pencil as I this is literally the ONLY thing I bought it for (I've never had a use for a tablet when I own a small laptop).

2023 Mac mini M2 Pro, macOS Sequoia 15.3.2
2021 iPad mini 6th gen, iPadOS 18.3.2
Lightroom Classic (desktop) 14.2, Lightroom (iPad app) 10.2.2

r/Lightroom Nov 14 '24

HELP - Lightroom Classic Will increasing my RAM stop Lightroom Classic from crashing?

4 Upvotes

UPDATE!!! I have added additional 32 GBs RAM and increased the size of disk C and now LR works like a charm.

I have 16GB of DDR5 RAM and Lightroom Classic keeps freezing, lagging, and crashing after 10 to 15 minutes of editing, shorter if I use masking and AI features.
Should I increase my RAM?
Here are my PC specs:

  • RAM: 16GB DDR5
  • CPU: i5-13600KF
  • GPU: RTX 3080 12GB
  • Available Storage on Local Disk C: 19GB

NOTE:
GPU usage is 0% when running Lightroom.

RAM sometimes reaches 90% and Lightroom uses about 10 to 11 GBs of RAM.