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How To Enhance Lightroom 4 Performance

By admin | Published December 8, 2012

Adobe released this performance hint for Lightroom 4 this week.  Among all tips, here are some of the more useful ones that one often overlook.

High Resolution Displays

Drawing to the screen can be slow when Lightroom is using the entire screen of a High Resolution Display. A high resolution display has a native resolution near 2560 x 1600 and is found on 30 inch monitors and Retina MacBooks. To increase performance on such displays, reduce the size of the Lightroom window, or use the 1:2 or 1:3 views in the Navigator panel.

Spot Removal Tool, Local Corrections, and History Panel

The Spot Removal Tool and Local Corrections Brush are not designed for hundreds to thousands of corrections. If you have an image containing many (i.e. hundreds) of localized adjustments, consider using a pixel-based editing application such as Photoshop for that level of correction.

If you have many corrections, check your History panel. The History panel has no limits and it does not get deleted unless specified. If you’ve been creating many local or spot corrections, your history might be long, which can slow Lightroom’s performance as a whole.

Clear the History panel by clicking on the X on the right of the History panel header.

Order of Develop operations

The best order of Develop operations to increase performance is as follows:

  1. Spot healing.
  2. Geometry corrections, such as Lens Correction profiles and Manual corrections, including keystone corrections using the Vertical slider.
  3. Global non-detail corrections, such as Exposure, White Balance, etc. These corrections can also be done first if desired.
  4. Local corrections, such as Gradient Filter and Adjustment Brush strokes.
  5. Detail corrections, such as Noise Reduction and Sharpening.

Note: performing spot healing first improves the accuracy of the spot healing, and ensures the boundaries of the healed areas match the the spot location.

Increase the Camera Raw cache

Increasing the Camera Raw cache in Lightroom’s preferences can help performance in the Develop module if you repeatedly work on the same set of images.

To reset the Camera Raw cache:

  1. In Lightroom, select Edit > Preferences > File Handling (Windows) or Lightroom > Preferences > File Handling (Mac OS).
  2. Increase the Camera Raw cache. If you’re not sure how much to incrase it it, start with 2-3 GB initially, depending on the amount of space on your hard disk and how you use Lightroom.
  3. You can also change the location of the cache if you wish.

For full list, check out the Adobe page, link here.

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Adobe Will Feature New Photoshop Updates @ Create Now Live on 11 December 2012

By admin | Published November 29, 2012

Adobe just announced the upcoming event, Create Now Live. The event will showcase what’s to come in future updates to Photoshop and in addition it will feature the following great speakers:

  • Kelby Media Group CEO Scott Kelby shows off hidden gems in Photoshop CS6.
  • Iconic design agency Karlssonwilker talks about taking their unique design sensibility to the web.
  • Go behind the scenes of “A Liars Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python’s Graham Chapman” with Animation Director Justin Weyers.

You can sign up for the event at Create Now Live Page. The event will be live streamed on the Adobe Creative Cloud Facebook page.

For now, check out the What’s Next in Adobe Photoshop video below.

Source – Adobe

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Video Tutorial – How To Speed Up Photoshop CS6

By admin | Published September 1, 2012

The guys over at Creative Nerd put together this nice video sharing their tips on how to make Photoshop CS6 run faster.  SOme of the tips they share includes -

  • Closing any large files in Photoshop - Always close large files which you may have open in Photoshop, which you may not be using. Having to many large files open, and running will significantly decrease the speed.
  • Turning off features - Turning off unnecessary features in Photoshop CS6 will significantly increase the speed, turn off options such as animated zoom and image previews would help.
  • Changing cache in Photoshop - What I found helped increased the most was changing the levels in Photoshop. Changing the cache from to 4 to 1 was a huge help.
  • Change drawing mode - I’m not entirely sure if this is a default setting, but ensuring drawing mode is basic and you will notice a difference in speed.

Source – Creative Nerds

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Speed Art: We Are Still Alive – The Power of Photoshop

By admin | Published August 16, 2012

Source – Alexander Koshelkov

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More Videos on Adobe Photoshop CS6 Beta

By admin | Published March 23, 2012

A quick look at the newly released videos on the Adobe Photoshop CS6 Beta where you can download now, check our previous post for the link.

Source – Adobe Photoshop Channel

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Photoshop CS6 – You Don’t Just Edit Videos, You Photoshop Them As Well

By admin | Published March 14, 2012

Adobe released this video with touch-up all done in the upcoming Photoshop CS6.  According to Bryan O’Neil Hughes, senior product manager for Photoshop, “just about anything you can do to a still, you can do to video – in the same way that you use Photoshop today.  The video in this example is a great example of just some of what can be done: transitions, filters, tonal adjustments, type, fades, animating stills – you name it.”

Source – Adobe Photoshop.com Blog

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Lightroom 4 is Out, Check Out The Newest Videos

By admin | Published March 7, 2012

With Adobe Lightroom 4 released, nothing better is to sit down and check out all the new features of this new version.  Here we embedded all the new Lightroom 4 videos from Adobe for your easy reference. Enjoy.

More videos after the jump……

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Another Great Adobe Photoshop Touch Walkthrough by Terry White

By admin | Published March 4, 2012

Following our last blog post on Adobe Photoshop Touch for iPad Reviews and Walkthroughs, Terry White posted another great vid (19 minutes long) on his insights on the app.  Good watch definitely for those who walk to try the app out, enjoy.

Source – Terry White

 

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More Sneak Peek Videos on Photoshop CS6

By admin | Published February 26, 2012

Following up on our last blog post on the first sneak peek video on the upcoming Adone Photoshop CS6, Adobe released another four sneak peak videos, we’ve embedded them all here for your easy reference.

Source – Photoshop YouTube Channel

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Sneak Peak Video on Photoshop CS6

By admin | Published January 27, 2012

The guys over at Adobe posted a sneak peak video on the upcoming Photoshop CS6.  The two-minute long video showcased the new Camera Raw functions, the new interface of CS6 and the rich cursor support.  The interface now feature a choice of color themes apart from the original CS5 interface, three -stops of blacks and greys that is, much like the Lightroom and that’s pretty much it from the sneak preview and I do hope that Adobe will churn out a few more sneak peak videos for us to drool on soon.

Source – Photoshop

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