PSE 2019

Now trialing PSE 2019 for last three days after moving from PSE 10.

processor i5:3 series; SSD; 16GB memory; Intel 4000 graphics.

64 bit versions is much more responsive and less 'waits' for tasks to complete. Has better interface. Only have 19,000 pictures but seems good enough without problems recorded above.

I upgraded from PSE 15 to PSE 2018 best choice I made. After reading the reviews and looking through PSE 2019 I found no change in the process. From what you said in this article, I found out before I was going to make the change.....Glad I didn't.

I've given up on Adobe PSE 2019 - I even went out and bought a new laptop and installed it with no other software present.  Still crashed.  So uninstalled 2019 and took the laptop back to the shop.  I reinstalled PSE 8, yes, 8 back on my old laptop and it works like a dream.  When I tried 14 is was also running out of memory.  When I was using the Distort filter in 2019 is was using 96% of the CPU.  Can you imagine my shock.  So I am sticking with Version 8 PSE until I hear something has been done with PSE 2019.  The thing is how do I go about getting my money back???  And the TWO WEEKS I spend trying to figure out what the problems are.  Shame Adobe shame.

offroadrunner  wrote It would seem to me that there are some issues and all I really want is some reassurance from the company that the issue has been recognised and a fix is in development. Appreciate that's not normally a message that the marketing guys would like but many of us are long term customers and I'll stick with you if you're honest.

Just a note about the present user to user forum.

faq:

Which forum should I post to? (Feedback vs Forums)

That means that if you want product managers to take your opinion into account, it's best to post in the feedback forum:

Photoshop Family Customer Community

Some staff of the Elements team do come here to help users for specific "how to" questions, but the present forum is a community of Elements users. You'll mainly get answers by half a dozen of volunteers like me, who are just normal users like you, without any inside information.

Everybody in the Elements community is interested in the issue of performance. As another user, I can give information on my own experience, and the performance factors I have observed. I still have versions 6, 10, 12, 14, 15, 2018 and 2019 installed. My computer specs:

Adobe Photoshop Elements Version: 17.0 (20180830.m.125874)  x64

Operating System: Windows 10 64-bit

Version: 10 or greater

System architecture: Intel CPU Family:6, Model:12, Stepping:3 with MMX, SSE Integer, SSE FP, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, HyperThreading

Physical processor count: 2

Logical processor count: 4

Processor speed: 3093 MHz

Built-in memory: 8131 MB

Free memory: 3861 MB

Memory available to Photoshop Elements: 7424 MB

Memory used by Photoshop Elements: 70 %

I also use another 'basic' computer with only 6 GB RAM.

I am a heavy organizer user with a current catalog of 67 000 items, 540 GB over nearly 20 years, mostly raws and very few videos.

I don't use (and never will use) face recognition. Managing people is too important for me and FR does not help me in any way.

I generally don't use any of the 'automatic' features in the organizer, even if I find the smart taging in current version useful.

My experience:

- The 64-bits introduction in PSE13 was very significant for performance, both in the editor and the organizer.

- I have found the organizer to outperform Lightroom for complex searches in the organizer.

One example a few minutes ago on PSE2019.

Query : "céros OR ourchet".

Where "céros" is part of a keyword or caption "Rhinocéros", "ourcette" is part of the text of a caption "grande fourchette 2018"

Result in one second : 157 found amidst 66 000 items.

(not always as brilliant, but really very fast).

- PSE2019: slower and unreliable on my basic computer (6 GB RAM). Faster overall especially for certain tasks in the current one.
Probably a better management of memory between different running tasks.

Before trying to see the different factors, did you notice that the system requirements are now at 8 GB RAM recommended ?

So, if we want to compare performances, I think it's necessary to state:

- OS and OS version

- PSE version

- Physical RAM amount

- Type of drive (SSD...  NAS...)

- scratch disk settings

- video card (practically useless for Photoshop Elements, but can be a nuisance...)

- which "auto" features are enabled.

- if you use face recognition, is the indexing complete (can take days...)

- if the slowness is both in the editor and the organizer (with a few timings examples).

Totally agree with you - it crashes my machine intermittently usually when I am working with layers and am applying a filter to one of the layers.  Totally unacceptable and frustrating.  I have been using PSE for at least 10 years and I have never seen anything like it.

Adobe Elements 2019 is a complete dog of a software.  Previous versions were slow, but this one is totally slow and unusable in the organiser and photoshop.  The CPU is not showing it doing much at all.  The system just sits, locked up.  There are programming errors for certain.  I have mentioned this in other posts.

I will be asking Adobe to downgrade my purchase to 2018 version.

There are many unanswered questions about this on their forum.  They need to get this fixed.