I noticed recently that Adobe added some Performance hints to their Lightroom Help. In past Lightroom posts I’ve gotten many comments that indicate people have problems with Lightroom performance. Here is a summary of the hint subjects, see the Adobe article for details:
- Restart Lightroom
- Make sure you are using the latest version of LR
- 2 GB RAM is a minimum
- SSD Drives are a big help
- Move your catalog
- Check Photos’s RAM setting
- High-resolution displays
- Spot removal tool, local corrections and History panel
- Order of develop operations
- Avoid corrections you don’t need
- Zoom options
- Increase Camera RAW cache
- Use Process version 2010
- Update your video driver
My personal experience with Lightroom is that 8 GB of RAM is a better minimum than 2 GB. Ever since I configured my desktop and laptop machines with 16GB of RAM and a SSD drive ALL performance issues with Lightroom and Aperture just go away. As far as I’m concerned, I’ll never own another computer that doesn’t have 16GB of RAM and a SSD drive. I can’t even stand to use my old MacBook Pro that just has 8GB of RAM and a mechanical hardrive.
Started out doing photography at the age of 6 using an uncle's old 1940 kodak brownie box camera. At 15 years of age, I decided to buy my very own 1975 Praktica SLR camera. I now shoot with a Nikon D850. I do unpaid TFP and commercial paid work.