Turn on suggestions
Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type.
Exit
Roland_Rick
Engaged
Roland_Rick
Engaged
Activity
‎Jul 31, 2018
11:33 PM
Update: to me, it looks like Lr and Bridge/Camera RAW have a serious issue by asynchron read/write disk operation. Question to all: I am on Mac, is this also an issue on Windows computers? Appreciate all reply. This is a disaster, a trivial operation like spot removal ends up in totally blocking the computer. Please have here a screenshot of the activity monitor:
... View more
‎Jul 31, 2018
11:09 PM
Setup: Lightroom 7.4 / Camera RAW 10.4.0.976 iMac 5K Late 2015, 4 GHz Intel Core i7, 16 GB 1867 MHz DDR3, AMD Radeon R9 M395X 4096 MB, 1 TB SSD. Disk: Super fast SSD G-Drive USB3 connected Work to do: Trying to do a spot removal on a panorama 26476 x 3791. It's a DNG, created by Lr's panorama merge. Issue: Never ending story. Impossible. Takes infinite amount of time. Complaint: This is so worse. Fact is: Adobe give a sh?t on customer feedback and/or satisfaction. They are arrogant and do not listen. Point. That's the story. Take the money and slap right into customers face. Left and right cheek at once.
... View more
‎Jun 17, 2018
03:19 AM
I use keywords very precise and will lose my ability to search throughout the DB. For customers I only work with Bridge, you drag and drop the folder: done. No hassle with database files.
... View more
‎Jun 17, 2018
03:12 AM
Well, do you know how much work that is? You lose all you edit information as long you don't save them first to XMP sidecar files. For that, you must mark all images and press Cmd+S. Your image edits are so also usable in Bridge/Camera Raw. But CR has no database, it works with the flat files only, this means, all virtual copies will get lost. I never tried this: export all images to a new database. On > 200k images a rather time consuming process. Because Lightroom does not prevent Mac going to sleep, start "Terminal" and run caffeinate -i When Lr has finished, you can cancel caffeinate by simply closing Terminal or pressing Ctrl+C if Terminal window is active. Have fun
... View more
‎May 31, 2018
09:31 PM
I use my Adobe subscription on 4 computers - but only me and no one else - and due to circumstances: often offline. The necessity to have an internet connection for deactivating first another computer, then activating the computer you are currently working on is super inconvenient. Concerning your 3rd point: It is super OK to make money, but it is not necessary to push this to the limits. I am quite sure, Adobe will also successfully develop their business, if they allow e.g. 5 concurrent activations to private subscribers without increasing price. Something completely different: I would be lucky, they solve the super slooooooow Lightroom 7.x issue asap. This does lead to the conclusion: as subscribing customer, you do not get sufficient return on investment anyway, but for that, slow crappy software, performance never analysed by a profiling tool. I am sure, we will wait an infinite time, until Adobe fixes this; means: never, they just wait until faster hardware is available and this is extremely non sustainable behaviour and for that, Adobe helps, to blow planet Earth a little bit faster. To me, Adobe has the same max. negative company image like Bayer, Monsanto, Nestlé, Novartis etc. (this names just as example/placeholder for so many others): with their greedy behaviour and shareholder value only mindset, they just accelerate blowing up the planet. What finance industry does not realise: We have only one planet, there is no spare one aside. However: all this does has no effect on it, the Forum is super inconvenient and illogical built up. Self guidance is something else. Live long and prosper PS: I suffer slightly of Asperger and my special knowledge born with, is to detect system immanent/intrinsic relations, errors and problems, normal persons never will be aware off. To me, this is as easy and normal, as for you detecting the difference between black and white is. For that, you can take the conclusions and relations I mention above as a fact. No need to start a discussion about it. Abambo wrote First you do not need uninstalling when you are using a product on multiple computers. You can have 2 activations at a time. Deactivate on one comuter and activate on a third one is quite simple. Second: You can ask the same question over and over again. You may, however, get refered to the correct answer on a different thread. Third: Adobe is for sure a company that loves making money, but they also value their customers and want them going on using Adobe products. I think their strategy can’t be that bad, as they are developping their business quite successfully.
... View more
‎May 29, 2018
10:26 PM
That's for sure true. Total mess. Typical for Adobe. Customer awareness and friendly is something completely different.
... View more
‎May 22, 2018
01:14 PM
2 Upvotes
My screen shot above shows the opening of a 24 megapixel X-H1 raw file with 3 local adjustments applied and a few Basic tweakings. It's 12 vertical bars. Conclusion: on a quite fast iMac 5K, after 60 seconds the image and tweakings has still not been fully loaded and processed. Unbelievable... but the truth...
... View more
‎May 22, 2018
12:25 PM
3 Upvotes
More than 100% CPU is caused by multi core architecture. Each one count's 100%. Depending on i5, i7 etc, this is possibly presented different by Activity Monitor, e.g. on my iMac 5K with 4 GHz Intel Core i7 and AMD Radeon R9 M395X 4096 MB it looks like so: Not so nice is the CPU and performance and power consumption just switching ONE solely 24 Mpixel image from Grip to Developer mode, each vertical bar representing 5 second interval. More performant and for that power and environmental sustainable is something else. Adobe, please open your eyes, there is also the GPU history displayed in the lower field and GPU usage is activated in Lr preferences. But it looks like GPU is not used at all...
... View more
‎May 06, 2018
12:06 AM
2 Upvotes
Ian, this is done quite often automatically and does not solve the problem: It is like I wrote above, Adobe developers must use a "Profiler" on their software, and if they don't know how to use it, they can hire me as consulting engineer, I will show them. I already like to see the jaw dropping faces of them, if I could show to them, how easy it is to detect bottle necks and to resolve such problems efficiently. It is not about to pass the buck to someone, bottle necks just happens accidentally on almost each piece of software having more lines of code than main() { printf("Hello World!\n"); } It is my daily business since 1986.
... View more
‎May 05, 2018
12:15 AM
1 Upvote
So many thanks for your words and support. Q: may you quote also post editing your reply? Just for the other readers here, to let them know, which thread message your reply relies on. Or can you see this somewhere else without quoting? -> Found it, just click on the "In reply to..." link above a reply. carminecuccuru wrote Exactly Roland, I tried to write to Adobe about the problem of excessive CPU and GPU usage and I hope they can get to this conclusion too. Excellent intervention
... View more
‎May 05, 2018
12:11 AM
Thanks for this hint. I am on a Mac and there is no need for AV software (my daily use account has no Administrator rights). Going back to 7 did honestly not solve the problem. FrasSmith wrote Just adding a quick update. After writing this, I reverted to 7.0 and rebooted. It was an improvement over 7.3.1 but still lagged a lot. I did some more Googling and found a suggestion to add the photo folders and Lightroom app folder to my anti-virus on demand exclusions list. This seems to have fixed my performance problems with 7.0. When time allows, I'm going to upgrade to 7.3.1 again and see if there's any improvement.
... View more
‎May 05, 2018
12:08 AM
Has never been enabled on my systems: https://forums.adobe.com/people/Ian+Lyons wrote Can you check if Face Detection is enabled? Can you check Lr is Syncing with Cloud?. If it's running then use 'pause' option in ID panel at top left of Lr window (see Issues after updating to Lightroom Classic CC 7.2 for more details) Also, run 'Optimise Catalog' from File menu
... View more
‎May 05, 2018
12:04 AM
1 Upvote
Mine has not been disabled, and 7.3.1 is super slow anyway. In fact: it is not simply super slow, I gonna bet (and I am pretty sure I will win): it is heating up the system by wasting CPU and GPU resources for one or more false programmed subroutines, e.g. 100'000 times called unnecessary too often. Looks like no one of the developers at Adobe knows, how to use a developer tools called "Profiler". You my identify such problems with the blink of an eye using Profilers. 1. But it is advanced to trivial "Syntax Error" compiler messages - too hard to handle for Adobe's developer teams? 2. Or blocked by management decisions, to focus man power on implementing upcoming new functions instead of consolidating released software to customer satisfaction? I pretty sure, No 2. is the problem. https://forums.adobe.com/people/Akash+Sharma wrote Hi Al_barraz, yiannisz83733662 and jhessicaviana, Sorry that you're facing performance issue with Lightroom Classic CC since the 7.3 version update. Could you please check if the app still performs slowly if you uncheck "use graphics processor" under the Preferences> Performance menu? Also, please refer this article Optimize Lightroom performance and let us know if the suggestions to optimize the app helps. Thanks, Akash
... View more
‎May 01, 2018
12:12 AM
2 Upvotes
Question: Is it "only" a Mac problem? If some Windows users are reading this: do you also aware super low performance on PC? @Adobe: must be a problem with the CameraRaw engine for Mac. I makes no difference working with Lr or CR on an image, both will burn out CPU and GPU, you may boil water with the heat produced, Software is the opposite of performant. I am developing software since 1986 and at the i286 and i386 times, there have been code analysing tools called "Profiler", you find useless performance wasting subroutines instantly. It was essential for performant software at those time. - And it is still, there is no such thing like infinite hardware resources. But I am afraid, today's drag and drop software developers have no clue of how to do Profiling checks on a piece of software and make them performant. With my 33 years of developing software experience I may testify, in 99.9% of performance problems it is a tiny subroutine/function (mostly only 3 to 5 lines), accidentally called 100 or 1000 times - even if a single call would have been sufficient. The remaining 0.1% is waiting in a totally false way to an input event like e.g. "OnMouse{Whatever} do …". The performance and battery drainer of Flash, since Adobe acquired Flash form Macromedia exactly having such an error included. Stupid to have all Macromedia developers fired. The problem still exists in an 16 bit object code used since then, because the source code got lost on acquisition. You still may easily find Macromedia strings in that object code with a debugger. In case of Lr/CR performance problems it is guaranteed the 99.9% case. Experience is the heck of a good thing. Damned, Adobe, get this performance problem fixed instantly!!!!
... View more
‎Apr 19, 2018
11:27 PM
1 Upvote
You may go back to 7.2. On my computers it worked, DB was not messed up.
... View more
‎Apr 19, 2018
11:26 PM
2 Upvotes
The only solution at the moment is: Go back to Lr CC Classic 7.2 by Creative Cloud Installer. There have been no DB issues on my Lr DBs. Thanks for the video. Oh, I see you are using a PC. So, I am aware, that Adobe now also messed up with PC/Windows (they once claimed to optimise their products for PC/Windows instead of macOS/Mac). Cheers, Roland
... View more
‎Apr 19, 2018
11:15 PM
1 Upvote
If things like "Optimize Lightroom Performance" are necessary after an update, Adobe is shifting it's problem from Company to customer. Super bad behaviour. Specially because following all this crap they help by 99.9% NOTHING. All Adobe procucts are PC/Windows optimized but not macOS. And this is an ugly thing of Adobe. Time to full change to Capture One - which has become noticeably faster on each update (I started a 7, at current date, 2018-04-20, it's version 11). Damned Adobe, make your software using macOS's performance optimised APIs. THAT's the correct solution for all that problems. FCPX is e.g. on a e.g. three yrs old MacBook Pro faster as Premiere Pro on the fastest todays PCs - even Adobe claims to have it PC optimised. Just another advertising lie. https://forums.adobe.com/people/Akash+Sharma wrote Hi Al_barraz, yiannisz83733662 and jhessicaviana, <<snip-snap>> Also, please refer this article Optimize Lightroom performance and let us know if the suggestions to optimize the app helps
... View more
‎Apr 11, 2018
12:57 PM
5 Upvotes
Yeah, Adobe did it again and messed up once more. On Mac, all of the Adobe software since ever is super slow, because optimized for crappy PC/Windows. Lr 7.3 is now hyper slow and has become UNUSABLE . And a battery drainer. When will Adoble learn, to implement macOS APIs instead of trying to transform their own PC/Windows optimized thing to Mac? This will never work out performant. Using macOS APIs they could improve speed of Adobe software on Mac by at least factor 10 or so. It looks like, at Adobe nobody in charge of anything knows, that 99.9% of the graphics industry and artists work with Mac instead of this creepy crappy Windows trash thing. And YES: Adobe managed it also: Radial/Zoom Blur has still NO PREVIEW with the current Ps version 2018 (19.1.3). This is a complaint from soooooooo many persons since 2004 or so. Dinosaur behaviour of Adobe. They think there is no need, to listen to the customers. IBM did also. Now companies in China make the former IBM PC.@ Damned Adobe, fix this It is not funny As soon Serif Software has something like Bridge or Lightroom to support Affinity Photo, I will quit my subscription at once.
... View more
‎Dec 26, 2017
10:43 AM
Hi Akash, is there a Photoshop Preferences Setting where I can set this. In opposite to nikonmf I WANT Photoshop to prevent Mac going to sleep - as long Ps has workload to do. Otherwise when e.g. aligning ≥ 50 layers, Mac goes to sleep, even if 80% of layers to be aligned are left. My current workaround is caffeinate -i in Terminal and I stop it by Ctrl-C if workload of Ps is finished. But it is very inconvenient, it is necessary to do this manually... You may check by pmset -g on terminal, which software prevents Mac going to sleep and which not. $ pmset -g System-wide power settings: Currently in use: standbydelay 10800 standby 1 womp 1 halfdim 1 hibernatefile /var/vm/sleepimage powernap 1 gpuswitch 2 networkoversleep 0 disksleep 10 sleep 0 (sleep prevented by caffeinate, sharingd) autopoweroffdelay 28800 hibernatemode 3 autopoweroff 1 ttyskeepawake 1 displaysleep 5 tcpkeepalive 1 acwake 0 lidwake 1 In this example it is only caffeinate itself and accidentally the sharing daemon. I ensure you, Photoshop has been running when copy & pasting this on a Focus Stacking of 60 images of a D850. OK, <pre> does not work correctly in this HTML editor here, so, let's put it a bulky image in: CU, Roland PS: The <pre> tag in this editor does not preserve line breaks as defined by w3c. During editing ok. After sending, the line feeds are eliminated. I tried several times.
... View more
‎Dec 21, 2017
07:01 AM
Michel, I am afraid we're talking about two different things. I am talking about 45 megapixel images, showing full body (not only head or eye) and I want to set the centre of the Zoom Blur exactly (!) on the centre of the iris. Anyway, this is the wrong thread, I accidentally put this into the Photoshop Elements section instead of Photoshop section.
I wish you a Merry X-mas and a Happy New Year.
PS: And for me and all other Photoshop users - complaining this since 2005 or so - I wish a Radial/Zoom blur which can set pixel exact without fumbling. I'd prefer that rather than all this super difficult to implement 3D functions, 98% of all Photoshop (normal Ps not Express) users never use. But an easy to pixel exact Zoom blur can not be implemented since 12 year - oh wow, this must be the really hard stuff to code. 😉
... View more
‎Dec 19, 2017
06:52 AM
Michel, there is a difference between accurate and precise (in Europe it is so...). And we must definitely not talk about efficiency in comparison to Affinity Photo. But I am not surprised anymore. USA and Saudi Arabia are the last two countries left, which could also not manage it to change to metric system (everything simply x 10 and / 10), what is FAR easier and less error prone than the US statue system (sometimes x 12, sometime x 3 etc. etc. and the opposite)...
... View more
‎Dec 19, 2017
06:50 AM
Robert, Adobe is master in ignoring customers. If you Google a little bit, you'll find such requests already in years older than 2010... It is just embarrassing for Adobe, this not having been fixed since over a decade...
... View more
‎Dec 19, 2017
06:45 AM
Oops, I did not realize, that I made this accidentally in the Photoshop Elements section. Mea culpa. It should belong to the big Photoshop. Can I move it myself or must I ask someone?
... View more
‎Dec 17, 2017
09:36 AM
Yeah, it's not about masking and blending. It's for setting CENTRE of blur accurate and efficient, without needing 100's of attempts or so, until you hit to point you want to be the centre accidentally. Adobe should check how easy it is to apply zoom blur in Affinity Photo. It should be at least possible to set the centre like it can be done for lens flare - also this is totally inconvenient compared to Affinity Photo, but anyway better as current Radial/Zoom blur of Photoshop where it is a try-and-error method 😞
... View more
‎Dec 14, 2017
07:11 AM
Deleting files from SD card after import works quite fine with Bride and its "Photo Dowloader". BUT: The Photo Downloader is - sorry - a piece of crap, no filter options for doing an efficient import selection - e.g. sort and stack by capture date and time - nothing. Scrolling behaviour is MOST terrible: this probably Windows specific fine, but it is HORRIBLE on Mac. Adobe still didn't learn, how to use the 1000x more performant macOS APIs. But it still can get worse: auto generation of folders doing import by Photo Downloader, supports only a format YYYYMMDD (can not be user changed), where Lightroom uses YYYY-MM-DD, time to check compliance at Adobe: left hand in software department does not know what the right one does 😞 Such ugly things could easily be avoided. Yahoo, it still can get worse (ok this is Photoshop related, but I don't care): For sport photos editing super important Radial and Zoom filter has still no Preview and - related to how it looks like - is still a code from 1989 or so... If you check Ps forums in internet, this is complained for at least 10 years. Back to Lr: Drag and drop from files directly into a Lightroom library folder does not work. Lr just imports into folder selected under "To:" in the importer tool. If you forget to select the folder you want to import manually, you'll get a messy import to a random folder. That's really HORRIBLE Look and Feel. But that's Adobe, to big to listen to customers. 😞 Same as Sony: this are the both companies with the worst customer awareness ever, directly followed by Apple. Please have a nice day... And: Honi soit qui mal y pense: please apologize some of the ugly words used, was written at an emotional moment. But this does not change mentioned content. 😉
... View more
‎Nov 17, 2017
12:25 AM
Please update Radial and Zoom Blur like it is in Affinity Photo - or at least with a Preview. Many 1000 thanks in advance.
... View more
‎Jun 26, 2017
11:54 PM
When will we get an overhaul of Radial / Zoom blur with at least a preview?
Affinity Photo has the
preview even
directly on canvas/image in real time... If they can do it, why Adobe won't and refuses - customers complaining this since years - updating this?? Add please at least the possibility to copy and paste the exact coordinates like in Lens Flare filter. Many thanks in advance, Roland
... View more
‎Dec 12, 2016
12:43 PM
Hallo Monika, besten Dank für die Links und was ich so sehe Tipps von einer "der" Illustrator Spezialistinnen! Wow...! Ich bin der totale Ai Anfänger und brauche ansonsten auch nur Ps und Lr und jetzt - einmalig - den Illustrator. Schade ist der beim "Fotografie" Paket nicht mit dabei (zum aktuellen Fotografie Preis versteht sich), dann würde ich den Illustrator öfter mal benutzen, aber 23 € oder was der pro Monate im Einzelabo kostet (ich nehme mal an zusätzlich) ist mir einfach für 1x benutzen pro Jahr zu teuer, auch schon für nur einen Monat. Denn 2 Monate Abo Ai = Kaufpreis Affinity Designer. Zu deiner Info: Auch Affinity Designer kann meinen Task nicht so direkt am Guppenobjekt wie gratis Inkscape, aber bei Serif Enhancement Requests platziert kommen da ziemlich direkt an und sind oft im nächsten Release mit drin (was natürlich meinerseits längst geschehen ist). Der AD von Serif ist für meine Zwecke im Normalfall mehr ausreichend und auf Mac verdammt performant. Wäre der Kostenpunkt nicht, würde ich jedoch wegen der Integration mit CC dem Ai den Vorzug geben, obwohl ich mich in den Illustrator erst Einarbeiten müsste. Nochmal vielen Dank für die Links und LG, Roland
... View more
‎Dec 12, 2016
10:45 AM
Many thanks to all for your replies. OK, so I see, there is no such possibility like in Inkscape to do it straight. Inkscape: Path Blend - Inkscape 0.46-devel - YouTube
... View more
‎Dec 12, 2016
06:53 AM
I am completely new to Illustrator and need to know is this possible or not. A picture is worth 1000 words a Youtube video also. This video shows perfectly what I want to do: Path Blend - Inkscape 0.46-devel - YouTube I appreciate any help! Many thanks in advance, Roland
... View more
- « Previous
- Next »
Copyright © 2025 Adobe. All rights reserved.
AdChoices