Painfully slow auto-blend in Photoshop

[Tjansk]

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

[Bojan Živković]

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.

[Tjansk]

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?

[Bojan Živković]

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.

[JohanElzenga]

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.

[Tjansk]

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.

[DP Captures]

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