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Just like GIMP compares to Photoshop. All the tools are there, maybe there is even more of them. However something feels "off", things sometimes freeze for no a
by kk_cz 9y ago
Just like GIMP compares to Photoshop. All the tools are there, maybe there is even more of them. However something feels "off", things sometimes freeze for no apparent reason. The less you know Lightroom the greater the chance that you will like RT
- tolien 9y ago> things sometimes freeze for no apparent reason Fortunately for the alternatives that would describe Lightroom these days too, to the point that Adobe had to publicly acknowledge that performance isn’t good enough [1]. 1: http://blogs.adobe.com/lightroomjournal/2017/07/on-lightroom-performance.html http://blogs.adobe.com/lightroomjournal/2017/07/on-lightroom...
- dom0 9y agoThe last LR version I used was LR3 and performance was really not a problem. That was 2010, mind you. On an even then outdated dual-core AMD system with the images and the catalogue on some old hard disk. So, am I correct to understand that Adobe managed to botch LR so badly that PCs with vastly superior processing and IO to what I used back then struggle on basic tasks? Woah.
- StavrosK 9y agoYeah, it's not terribly performant nowadays. I haven't gotten many crashes, but it feels pretty slow in general, even on a beefy machine.
- kk_cz 9y agoOne explanation can be that they managed to botch it the other can be that size of RAW images increased significantly in the meantime. I had no problem running relatively recent LR on i5 with 16gb ram. (I had problem with their pricing though, so I switched to another (non-OSS) SW that is performing similarly for ~1/3 of the price)
- a012 9y agoTalking about their licensing practice, I was about to buy a license for LR but their website prohibited me because I'm from their no- support/blacklisted country, so I can't buy. thanks for piracy and FOSS as well.