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KlausBusse
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June 27, 2025
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P: Display Speed improvements on random image selection in Develop

  • June 27, 2025
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I'm on Mac (M1 Max with 64 GB RAM) , and RAW display performance is really painfully slow, about 1.5 s for a random jump in Raw mode.

 

Adobe asks me for years what to improve, and I would just like to point them to (relatively cheap) competition:

Meet FastRawViewer, which

  • displays images directly from RAW within fractions of a second
  • has useful helper functions to quickly check focus plane and sharpness
  • and also allows to quickly inspect highlights and shadows

 

In combination, this speeds up image culling to less than half the time it needs in LR. I would expect these from the software company with the biggest development budget in the industry.

 

Lightroom was the only tool I used to use. Now I use other tools for key processes, like FastRawViewer for culling and DXO Pure Raw for developing.