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Tjansk
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March 18, 2020
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Painfully slow auto-blend in Photoshop

  • March 18, 2020
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Hi, I just started the 7 day trial and have an issue with the feature that I'm mainly interested in.

 

Auto-blend takes a painfully slow time to process. The result is great but I just can't wait 30+ minutes for a single picture.

Maybe I'm doing something wrong:

First I go to Files-> scripts ->load into stack. Then I select all layers, go to Edit->auto blend layers. I select stack images and check seamless tones and colors but not content aware fill empty areas and start. 

 

I stack about 10 images that are about 2mb big. Nothing too crazy.

I tried some basic performance tweaking in the menu but I see no difference.

 

Any help? Or maybe 30+ minutes is working as intended?

 

Thanks

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TjanskAuthor
Participant
March 21, 2020

Well I just upgraded to 16gb Ram and the time is the same.

 

I also found a specific stacking software that does the job in under one minute with pleasing results. So I'm not sure what's going wrong with Photoshop.

Anyway, issue solved.

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    DP Captures
    Participant
    March 15, 2021

    Hi. Glad you found a way to accelerate. What specific software for stacking did you get?

    JohanElzenga
    Community Expert
    JohanElzengaCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    March 18, 2020

    8 GB RAM is very little these days. I often demontrate this on a 16 GB RAM MacBook Pro, using six images of about the same size. I never timed it exactly, but I estimate it takes about one minute on that computer.

    -- Johan W. Elzenga
    Bojan Živković11378569
    Community Expert
    Bojan Živković11378569Community Expert
    Community Expert
    March 18, 2020

    It is too much time for that task. What are image dimensions and how much RAM you have for Photoshop plus do you run any other application in the background. I can not say that blending is super fast, in contrary, I am not satisfied with speed in latest and greatest Photoshop but what you are describing is waaaay tooooo much and not acceptable.

    Bojan Živković11378569
    Community Expert
    Bojan Živković11378569Community Expert
    Community Expert
    March 18, 2020

    It is too much time for that task. What are image dimensions and how much RAM you have for Photoshop plus do you run any other application in the background. I can not say that blending is super fast, in contrary, I am not satisfied with speed in latest and greatest Photoshop but what you are describing is waaaay tooooo much and not acceptable.

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    TjanskAuthor
    Participant
    March 18, 2020

    Thanks for the response.

    2848x4272.

    I have 8gb Ram and use EOS utility for live view photo shooting and chrome in the background. 

    It's not the best setup but I feel like the blend task shouldn't be too hard either, in comparison a free blending program never took longer than 5 minutes total. The problem here was that the result was too inconsistant.

     

    What time would be normal? 5 minutes? 15?

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