Disappointed with Lightroom 3

[mrladewig]

For me it has basically had a meltdown any time I've tried to view a large scan. Some things are faster, others are not. Running XP on an E6300 with 3GB. I have felt a bit let down by this version though.

[Kirk Gittings]

A few days ago I installed it on my workhorse PC where I do most of my commercial image processing. On files up to 200GB it seems to work fine, even flipping images back and forth between LR3 and CS4 on an 8GB Core two Quad.

For processing digital captures there is allot to this upgrade. The noise reduction is second to none-blowing away IME plugins like my previous standby, Noise Ninja.

[Rider]

Kirk,

You have 200GB files?? Perhaps you meant 200MB files?

I have lots of small files (mostly RAW digital images). My problem has been that it doesn't do a preview of each file fast enough for my liking.

[Kirk Gittings]

Yes 200MB sorry.

[Jeremy Moore]

My problem has been that it doesn't do a preview of each file fast enough for my liking.

You can always tell it to create 1:1 thumbnails when you ingest your files. It will take longer to ingest, but preview will be much quicker. I would also look at your settings and see how long LR is keeping your previews--if it's dumping them quickly then you may be reinventing the proverbial jpg preview wheel every week or so, which would slow down the previews, too.

[Armin Seeholzer]

Switch to Aperture its anyway better, but smells for a Mac!?!

Cheers Armin

[Rider]

Version 3.2 RC has been released, and one of the dozens of bug fixes seems to address this issue. I will try it out and see if helps.

[Rider]

It only took me 5 seconds using the new version 3.2 RC to see that the issue has been addressed. It now feels at least as fast as Lightroom 2 on my system.

Armin, I don't want to start a flame war, but Windows rocks, and Apple is rotten to the core. Just kidding. Cheers

[venchka]

Lightroom 3.2 (Final) has been released in the last day or 2.

[roteague]

I am using it on an old MacBook Pro, 2.33 Core 2 Duo with only 3gb Ram, mainly for the tethering feature and quick edits of digital capture before being saved. I upgraded from LR1. Most of my edits go on in PS. But LR seems to work fine on my machine?

Different OSs handle memory in different ways. Your experience on your Mac, with how memory is used, in no way corresponds to what a user will have on Windows 7, since Abobe will have to write custom modules for each OS.