I don't think this is a bug, but it's definitely an annoyance.  LRC 13.0.1, but this started before V13...  Windows 11 Pro, i9-12900, 64GB memory, EVERYTHING on SSDs.   Lightroom starts fine - it's not "fast", but it's not any worse than it's always been.   But SWITCHING catalogs takes much longer than in older versions.  Going into File>Open Recent to switch from the culling catalog (stuff captured while traveling that gets culled before importing) to the Images catalog, or going the other direction at best takes around 30 seconds if I go back and forth several times, to never in some cases.  Without going back and forth several times to test, I'd say it can easily take a minute or more to switch catalogs.  Sometimes, the "from" catalog goes away, and the "to" catalog just never starts.  The average is definitely slow enough to wonder if it's going to come up.   Shutting down and restarting is sort-of, marginally faster, but when I do that - exit from the current catalog, go down and click LRC to get to the "choose catalog" popup, I frequently get the hourglass for 10 or so seconds, then it goes away but NO catalog opens.  Usually after 2 or 3 times it opens the choose screen.   I don't know if it's got a huge amount of resources to release (or grab), or if the lock file doesn't want to go away, or what.  As I said earlier, EVERYTHING is on SSDs - catalogs, cache, temp stuff are all on NVME SSDs, and all the images are on a fast 8TB SATA SSD.   Is there ANYTHING in the preferences or catalog settings or some system setting(s), that can cause it to take so long to switch catalogs? ... View more

Windows 11 Pro, Photoshop 25.1.0 This HAS to be something dumb I'm missing...  I looked at the "how to use" and some other topics with a similar question, and I'm still not sure... I have a background layer with an image on it.  I put another layer above it and want to erase small, detailed, irregular areas so the lower layer shows through.... Eraser tool, right?  In all the years of doing this I'd just take the eraser and erase what I needed.  But THIS time, it's irregular and fiddly enough that I need to UNERASE where I've made errors. I tried holding Alt while using the eraser but that doesn't work.   I put a mask on the upper layer and used the regular brush tool to paint black on the mask to show through and white where I needed to correct my erasing.  That pretty much works.   BUT, it SEEMS to me that I should be able to do an erase and an unerase using the Eraser tool or SOMETHING.  Am I wrong, and the best way to do fiddly stuff is just to use the regular brush on the mask? ... View more

Windows PC, LRC 13. I want to select an area in an image.  Select subject (or background or sky) doesn't do it.  Select Object does a good job if I just select a small section of what I want.  Now I want to ADD to my object selection to get more of my "subject", and another one and another one.  I may want to get 4 or 5 different selections into my object and have it in the mask... HOW do I create the other objects WITHOUT having to LEAVE my place in the image, go all the way up to the top right, press Add AGAIN, go all the way back, do the selection, then repeat this every time?  I don't care if each selection is a separate Object (if it has to be), I just don't want to have to keep going back and forth and hitting Add over and over to create another of the same type of selection.   I thought I saw a presentation where the person created 8 or 9 objects in the mask and I don't recall ever seeing him go all the way up and hit Add every time - is there a keyboard shortcut I can't find, am I doing something wrong with how I'm doing the selection, or is this just a Lightroom limitation? ... View more

Photoshop 2024... I'm thinking this has been asked, but I don't see it anywhere...   Now that generative fill is no longer beta, if I use it to fill an area of an image without using a text prompt, does it restrict itself to source pixels in the image?  Or does it grab pixels from other images that aren't mine?  Or create them from nothing?   Same question for the generative expand - does it restrict itself to the image for source pixels? ... View more

Windows 11 Pro, Lightroom 12.5 This has been happening for a while, but I have to do it rarely so it's not usually a problem... Take a RAW image (in my case a Sony ARW) and do Enhance to upscale it 2X.  I now have a new, enhanced DNG file, but there's ALSO another DNG sitting in the folder from the Enhance. Do Synchronize folder and Lightroom just sits.  I get a partial progress circle, and sometimes and hourglass, but it never appears to finish - with any other file in the folder there would be immediate thumbnails flashing on and off and the sync would finish in a couple seconds. Eventually, I hit Cancel several times and shut down Lightroom.  I found the old topic from 2020 with the same complaint, and the only thing that came out of there was to reset the preferences which causes WAY too much having to redo things.  Does anyone have an idea OTHER than nuking the preferences? Currently, I've been Importing the folder since THAT works, but the Synchronize doesn't appear to like enhanced images. ... View more