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sanderb97552833
Participating Frequently
October 7, 2024
Question

Use of a mask causes slower behavior

  • October 7, 2024
  • 2 replies
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Good afternoon,

I always use Adobe Camera Raw to edit my photos, but when I use masks, Camera Raw is so slow that it is no longer usable.
For example, if I open 30 photos in ACR and edit them, it is really really very fast.
But if I use a mask even once, ACR becomes so extremely sluggish and slow that it can no longer be used.
I then have to close everything and then it works quickly again, until I use masks again.

It gets slow if I click on masking just once.


I have a Windows 11 PC with Intel I9 13900k processor - 64Gb RAM - NVIDIA RTX 4070
Who knows the solution?

2 replies

NRC13
Inspiring
April 8, 2025

I have the exact same problem. PC slows up every time I create a mask in ACR. Seems to be worse with the people selection masks.
Windows 11
13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-13900K
NVIDIA GeForce RTX4080

 

Latest updates installed. Is this a widespread problem? How best to progress a resolution?

David Franzen at Work
Adobe Employee
Adobe Employee
October 7, 2024

What kind of mask, with what settings? Please share an example of a raw and sidecar files so I can test this. What operations, specifically, get slow? How long do the slow operations take?

 

Are you sure GPU acceleration is enabled on your PC?

 

Thanks,

David

Participant
April 24, 2025

Same issue, it doesnt matter the config apparently. His config is quite strong. As long as we start using the A.i features and any mask in PS camera raw, everything is laggy. Its nice having all this new features but they re not properly optimized. Also pircture profile : "adaptive" does the same.

 

My config: Ryzen 4800H, 32GB ram. GTX 1660Ti 6GB. 
As settings: cache increased on empty ssd, scratch disk as well, GPU enable. Tryed to increase / decrease ram usage - no changes 😞

Participant
April 24, 2025

Update: Deactivated GPU usage, everything on my ryzen 4800H now and works better. Also takes less ram usage. CPU works in 55% and nearly max in turbo. Happy !