Lightroom 3 again for Stephen!

[ash]

Im primarily aiming this at Stephen as I no he has Lr3 but please feel free to add your advice.
Stephen I have about 25000 images in the lr3 library and Im finding it pretty slow scrolling through the library. Ive altered the previews to the lowest res and quality but it still seems chuggish and not really fluid.
The only other program I had all my images loaded into was picasa and Im sure that was alot more slicker.
Am I missing something or am I just asking a bit much of the program to be previewing so many images? How do you find yours?
Ash.

[Stephen]

Re: Lightroom 3 again for Stephen!

Im primarily aiming this at Stephen as I no he has Lr3 but please feel free to add your advice.
Stephen I have about 25000 images in the lr3 library and Im finding it pretty slow scrolling through the library. Ive altered the previews to the lowest res and quality but it still seems chuggish and not really fluid.
The only other program I had all my images loaded into was picasa and Im sure that was alot more slicker.
Am I missing something or am I just asking a bit much of the program to be previewing so many images? How do you find yours?
Ash.

Ash, I don't really have such issues, and I suspect your iMac has a faster processor than mine. I'm wondering if you have selected All Photographs in the Catalog section, this may take the prog longer to find and render any given image, so it may stop as it tries to catch up. Are you using Grid view, or Preview view.

I have all my photographs in sub folders of a root folder 'Pictures' This pretty much matches the folder structure in 'Finder' on the Mac HD. I would normally only browse photos in any given sub folder. Today for example I did a job and took 81 photos and these are all in a sub folder of 'Pictures' with the name of the job. I can scroll through these using the filmstrip like lightening, even in Preview mode using my 'magic mouse' there are absolutely no holdups. LR3 is faster than previous versions, so you shouldn't really be experiencing problems.

Does any of this make any sense to you? If not tell me how you accessing the photos in your library, can you show me a screen grab of what your Library module looks like when you are scrolling through and having this sluggishness issue

[ash]

Re: Lightroom 3 again for Stephen!

Hi Stephen, Im using grid view and searching from the root folder which in my case also is pics, scrolling in sub folders is fine, its just scrolling the whole library that slows things down, maybe Im asking a bit much, but i do like to search the pics as one big library and pic out shots that catch my eye for any given reason, I have all my pics in folders named for the specific period and event.

[ash]

Re: Lightroom 3 again for Stephen!

Just another thing I have thought of, lr3 does seem to be hungry on ram and I do have alot of other programs running usually, I have 4gb ram but I think I will upgrade to 8gb, can only be smoother with more ram.

[Stephen]

Re: Lightroom 3 again for Stephen!

Just another thing I have thought of, lr3 does seem to be hungry on ram and I do have alot of other programs running usually, I have 4gb ram but I think I will upgrade to 8gb, can only be smoother with more ram.

I'd think this is a reasonable thing to try, you can never have too much. I'm using 4GB and it rankles with me that to upgrade will mean I have to loose my existing 2x2GB strips and replace them with 2x4GB strips

[ash]

Re: Lightroom 3 again for Stephen!

Hi Stephen just an update and Ive since got an extra 2gb ram and things are running alot smoother in lightroom, not noticed any diference with anything else, its nice to see a big chunk of green on the activity monitor though
I did a bit of research and it seems macs use ram differently to windows as in a mac will use all available to make programs load and run quicker and then free up when needed, mmm this is ok but when it does need to free some up there is obviously a blip in performance.
Ash.