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Chris Tsorotes
Chris Tsorotes
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April 26, 2018
Question

Downgrading To Lightroom 6 - A Revelation

  • April 26, 2018
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After the mess with LR 7.0 and the fact that Lightroom is unusable even with the latest 7.3.1 patch.

I did the following, downgraded to to LR 6 with all the patches, I also used App Cleaner to remove the Creative Cloud agent and as much Adobe bloatware and agents on my system.

The performance improvement is nothing short of a revelation, everything from importing and working in the develop module is blisteringly fast by comparison.

The biggest revelation was using adjustment brushes in the latest releases is painfully slow and even worse with "auto mask selected" once applied, any changes like temperature, exposure would take a good second to show on screen after moving the brush, now it's back to instantaneous.

Also no bugs where my previous images are showing up when I use the cropping tool (as has been reported on here)

I'm running the latest MB Pro Touch, with all the latest Sierra updates, 16gb ram and 4gb GPU and LR 7 is simply rubbish.

I highly recommend go back to the earlier version if you can (and if it still supports your existing gear) don't waste any more time with Lightroom 7 until Adobe get their act together and release a working program.

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    dj_paige
    dj_paige
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    April 26, 2018

    https://forums.adobe.com/people/Chris+Tsorotes  wrote

    I highly recommend go back to the earlier version if you can (and if it still supports your existing gear) don't waste any more time with Lightroom 7 until Adobe get their act together and release a working program.

    ... unless you are one of the many people who are not experiencing problems with LR 7, and for whom LR 7 works fine, then there's no need to downgrade.

    Chris Tsorotes
    Chris TsorotesAuthor
    Known Participant
    April 26, 2018

    Seems like it's widespread from Mac and Windows users that it has issues and doesn't work fine.


    Common complaint is it's slow even with the latest hardware.

    I'm not imagining it, it runs like total s**t on my machine and it's consistent with numerous other reports on here and elsewhere.

    Also for no need to downgrade, I've seen comments on here from Adobe staff recommending a downgrade to version 7.2 so there's clearly much truth in what I'm saying, I've just taken it a bit further.

    dj_paige
    dj_paige
    Legend
    April 27, 2018

    https://forums.adobe.com/people/Chris+Tsorotes  wrote

    Seems like it's widespread from Mac and Windows users that it has issues and doesn't work fine.

    I see widespread people NOT complaining about this version. Thousands of users come to the forums here and elsewhere, and don't report the problems you have. I don't doubt you are having the problems you say you are having, but ... there are two points of view here.

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    Oleksy
    Participant
    April 26, 2018

    Will LR6 read LR7 catalogs?

    Chris Tsorotes
    Chris TsorotesAuthor
    Known Participant
    April 26, 2018

    No unfortunately, didn't really bother me as I just recreated my catalogues, small price to pay as far as I'm concerned.

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