Decreasing performance of Camera Raw (from Bridge) over time

Generally, it's the complexity of the settings used to edit the photos that can cause interactive edits to become slower, and not the number of photos you have open in Camera Raw's filmstrip or how just how long Camera Raw or Bridge are running. If you're putting a lot of work into individual photos: adding Masks, remove spots, using Upright, adding other effects, etc. Camera Raw has to do more work to reneder each pixel than it does when you start off with the default settings for your raw files. Also, if you are saving some photos to disk in the background while editing other photos, that might impact interactive performance temporarily, however, Camera Raw does assign interactive work higher priority than background saves.

A couple things to check--are you getting low on disk space when the lagginess happens? Is Camera Raw using GPU acceleration? Please check out the roubleshooting guide here: https://helpx.adobe.com/camera-raw/kb/acr-gpu-faq.html#troubleshoot).

It can help others trying to troubleshoot problems if you share more technical details about your computer and the exact version of Camera you are using. The troubleshooting guide includes instructions about how to capture more detailed logs.

Thanks,

David

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