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Develop Mode slow making changes!!

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  • Phil Thomson IPA
    Member

     I am finding the Develop Mode slower in responding and making discernible visual changes to the images than in Edit Mode. Also in the Advanced section of Lighting, I try to darken the required areas by 'dragging' on the image and there is no response or visible difference in the image or in the Lighting Histogram. The only time I can get it to darken, is if I have lightened the image first and all that does is decrease the lighten changes. Most of my images JPEGsare 4 - 8MB in size, I realise that it will be slower when editing png due to the sheer size of them compared to JPEGs

     Can anyone please tell me what I might be doing wrong, as by the tutorial videos, the develop mode seems very fast and having 100's of files per shoot folder to edit, doing it this way will take forever.

     Thanks, in anticipation.

     Phil Thomson

    Posted On November 5, 2009 - 06:27 AM (2 weeks ago) (Permalink to this post)

  • mrobben
    Member

    Develop mode is quite slow for me too (I am developing RAW files). Though it is workable.
    Of course, this is a task that demands quite a bit from the processing power of your PC. I am planning to upgrade my 4 year old PC to make image processing faster.

     

    Posted On November 5, 2009 - 09:50 AM (2 weeks ago) (Permalink to this post)

  • Wigz
    Member

    I find the user interface very slow, particularly when developing raw images. Opening a raw image is comparable or faster than ACR, but when trying to crop an image I have to wait many seconds for the frame and handles to appear, the pointer to change over a handle and the frame to catch up with the mouse.

    My computer is fairly old (3 Ghz P4) but Photoshop CS4 and ACR run quite well.

    Waiting for the screen to change when changing from tool to tool is annoying but I can handle that. The very slow response to mouse actions makes some functions almost unusable.

    Do other people find this or is it just my computer?

    Alan

    Posted On November 5, 2009 - 10:16 AM (2 weeks ago) (Permalink to this post)

  • Phil Thomson IPA
    Member

    I agree Alan with what you are saying regarding the  screen and mouse speed when editing in Develop Mode plus changing from tool to tool and the subsequent saving of that editing function.

     Like you with the RAW images, I am experiencing that problem with PNGs but I suppose that is part of it with the larger files( 14-20MB), plus I wondered whether having an LCD screen slows things down too. My computer is about 4-5 years old, although I did upgrade it earlier this year, when the Beta version first came out and was having similar problems then.

     Phil

    Posted On November 5, 2009 - 10:58 AM (2 weeks ago) (Permalink to this post)

  • arbib
    Member

    I have reading the replies about slow Crop handles, or slow "Developer" tools". But, I also read that many have older machines too. Now the Intel 3gig P4 surprises me, that it's slow.

    I have just tried a quick test with a 23mb DNG on the "Developer" side, and a 11mb JPG on the EDIT side...my findings were as follows on a Dual Core AMD 64 2.1ghz CPU with 2gig DDR 800mhz Ram, on a Vista 32 OS.

    DNG initial load time was about 10 seconds

    Exposure Adj...near instant (including real time proof)

    Color Adj... near instant (including real time proof)

    Crop adj being visible was about 5 seconds and an actual crop was instant.

    JPG...Load was near instant

    Exposure Adj was near instant (including real time proof)

    Crop Adj visible with handles was near instant, so was the actual crop procedure..

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    I think that Pro 3 uses the Dual CPU to it's potential. Might be that Pro 3 was designed for Dual or Quad CPUs.

    I don't find a 5-10 busy time on some tools a problem at all. most are changing "AS I" am moving the slider bars on either side. Dev or Edit.

    I also have Paint Shop Pro X2...It is much slower than Pro 3 in almost every tool, taking in upwards of 20s to build a preview in most tools..My guess, It does not use the both CPUs at all. But it has layers that Pro 3 does not have, so when I need to apply a selective soft-focus on a portrait, I do all the ground work in Pro 3 and do the soft-focus using the layers in PSP X2

     

    Posted On November 5, 2009 - 11:09 PM (2 weeks ago) (Permalink to this post)

  • Marc Sabatella
    Moderator

    I'd agree that the crop operation feels a bit on the sluggish side compared to other operations on my very average laptop (Core 2 / T5500, 2GB RAW).  But still, it rarely takes more than about three seconds before I can begin cropping a 10MP RAW file.  And all on-screen operatins are virtually instant.

    As for dragging down in the lighting tool, you need to right click to darken - are you doing that?  I actually rarely use that method, doing my adjustments on the graph directly.  But I really should be using the image, as I end up wasting time trying to find the right area of the graph to drag to get the effect I want.

    Posted On November 7, 2009 - 06:46 PM (1 week ago) (Permalink to this post)

  • Wigz
    Member

    Thanks for your responses.

    The controls on the tune tab are reasonable - it is the Geometry controls I have trouble with.

    I have done some more testing and find that the response is somewhat inconsistent. While always rather sluggish it is sometimes usable but at other times not.

    For example, with crop, sometimes the crop cursor appears quickly but when I click on the image I have to wait for several seconds for the frame and handles to appear before I start dragging. If I'm not careful, I start dragging too soon and the crop frame origin appears after I have dragged the mouse halfway across the screen so I get a tiny box in the lower right portion of what I want.

    Similarly the straighten tool takes a lot of care as the control point lags so far behind the mouse.

    It sounds like it runs best on a dual processor machine. I am not so concerned about general processing speed but it is the responsiveness of the some of the user interface controls that make things difficult. Maybe it's time for me to upgrade to a new motherboard and processor.

    Posted On November 8, 2009 - 11:22 AM (1 week ago) (Permalink to this post)

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