ACR masking is great, but slows down radically.

[peterb86513089]

I love the masking with the current ACR. I'm on version 14.4.0.1121. I mostly work on landscapes and I like to mask the sky, the water, the trees differently to make locaized adjustments. And I love the fact that you can interset one mask type with another. For autumn folage I might build a mask based on a Color range where I pick some read leaves, then I will intersect that mask with a brush mask and I can paint in changes on only the leaves I want to change. Love it.

But, I find that after creating a couple of masks the whole masking process slows down, and gets to a point where I am waiting for the paint brush to catch up. Sometimes I have to paint in an area of the mask several times before the mask actually changes.

Are there any tricks or techniques to speed up masking, especially as I build up more and more masks within just one image? Are there some maksing techniques that are inherintly slow and maybe should be avoided? Does mask type and mask order make any difference?

Thanks,

Peter

[peterb86513089]

maybe an example...

[dencon]

Well it's three years later. Did you ever find an answer? I'm having the same issue on ACR version 17.3.1.2227, and when I searched, your post showed up first.  I wish I had an answer. My first guess was that I had too many masks.  I've had more than the current 8 and had no issues with earlier versions.  Photoshop beta - the most recent update. ACR, too. 

Windows 11 Pro, 32 RAM, Processor 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-12700K, 3600 Mhz, 12 Core(s), 20 Logical Processor(s). Plenty for editing my needs for video.....last I checked. 

[peterb86513089]

Like you said,nearly three years have passed since that post. I still use Ps and ACR regularly and I too am on version 17.3.1.2227 of ACR. I did a fresh build of my PC on 2023 and upped the GPU, CPU, and memory. I think that helped, but the ACR has made a lot of advances with masking too. I would say that the performance has improved and I can go further with the masking, but there are still limits (in my opinion). Dependind on how many masks and what detail then there reaches a point where addional masks do start to slow things down. Still way better than it was three years ago.

I have recently been digitizing a lot of 50 year old B&W 35mm negatives and doing the converstion in ACR. Sometime there is a fair amount of spotting to clear up dust and scratches and I find that if I go too far with spotting then that slows down too.

Chicken or egg ... hardware, software seem to leapfrog each other.