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.This article is part one of a two part series on how to improve the performance of Lightroom. Lightroom is a very resource intensive application and you’ll find that as you get quicker and more efficient in Lightroom, the actual software itself will be what’s slowing you down. This tutorial is going to give you 10 tips on how to improve the performance of Lightroom on your machine without purchasing or upgrading your existing hardware.In this article, we are going to talk about Lightroom preferences and system settings. While in the second part of this two part series we will create a hardware guide where we will teach you which components to upgrade first for the biggest performance boost.So, let’s get on to discussing 10 Tips on Improving Lightroom’s Performance. If you would like to see this tutorial in its video format, please visit this tutorial at or on the. Use Optimal Settings During the Import ProcessTo improve the overall speed of Lightroom during the import process, we need to modify a few settings.

Go to the Import Dialogue Box by selecting ‘Import’ in the Library module as shown below.Under ‘File Handling,’ set ‘Render Previews’ to ‘Minimal’ as shown below.Setting Render Previews to Minimal will ensure that as Lightroom is importing new images, it’s not spending any extra time rendering previews for our images. If you’re importing hundreds or thousands of images from several memory cards or if you’re importing off a hard drive, you’re going to save tons of time as each preview takes a several seconds to render (depending on your computer’s speed and the preview size). We do want to make sure that before we begin working on editing our images, we have rendered full 1:1 previews, however we will discuss that shortly.Next, go down to ‘Apply During Import’ panel as shown below.In this ‘Apply During Import’ panel it’s best to apply general Develop Settings, metadata, and keywords whenever possible during import. Doing so will allow Lightroom to render previews that already include these basic settings.

If you’re shooting weddings, applying general Develop Settings may be rather minimal since each scene is so dramatically different. However, if you’re shooting something like products, headshots, portraits, etc, you’re probably setting up an entire scene and shooting it all the same way. This makes it easy to set your Develop Settings based on your typical settings for that scene so that you can actually import them and have all your images batch processed during import. If you aren’t able to create Develop Settings that will batch process your images, than I would at least highly recommend that you create a basic Develop Setting that sets general settings that are used for most of your images. For example, we import our images with minor boosts to Recovery, Clarity, Vibrance and Sharpness as all of our images typically will need those adjustments. Use an Adequately Sized Cache FolderGo to the ‘Edit’ menu and hit ‘Preferences’ (you can also hit Ctrl +, to get there). Under ‘File Handling,’ change the size of your Camera Raw Cache settings as shown below.You typically want to set your Camera Raw Cache settings to a size that is equivalent to what your average job would be, maybe making it a little bit larger if possible.

The Camera Raw Cache folder allows Lightroom to store all the previews for the images that you’re working on inside of a folder on your hard drive. This folder allows Lightroom to quickly access preview information in order to display your image previews without lag.

The larger this cache is, the more image previews it can store. For us, the typical job (we shoot weddings) is about an 8 hour day and we’ll have say 2,000 images from one photographer. Each wedding is stored in its own Lightroom Catalog. So, take your average number of images that you store in a typical catalog (2000 for us), and multiply it by your average file size. We’re shooting SRAW1 (Small Raw 1) on the Canon 5D Mark II so let’s say our average file size is roughly 10 megabytes each.

So multiplying 2,000 x 10 gives us 20 gigabytes. I will typically add 25% extra or 5 gigabytes just to be safe. Therefore, our Camera Raw Cache is set to 25 gigabytes.Now if you have tons of extra space on your hard drives, then by all means, set it even higher. But, because I’m using SSD drives on my machine and they’re fairly limited in size, my working drive is only 256 gigabytes. So, I set this to 25 gigabytes so that I can work on one entire job at a time as shown below.3. Cache Folder LocationIf you have an internal drive, other than your operating system drive, then choose a different drive to store your Camera Raw Cache, but do not choose an external USB drive. If you choose an external USB drive to save your camera raw cache settings, you’re severely hindering Lightroom’s performance.

External USB drives themselves are typically very slow and the USB connection is even slower. So always use an internal drive or a zippy eSATA drive if you have one, but your best option is to use a drive that’s not your operating system drive so Lightroom can have a dedicated hard drive for the Camera Raw Cache.If you have no choice, then use your operating system drive. To change the Camera Raw Cache location select ‘Choose,’ and select a drive and folder. My working drive is my 256 gigabyte SSD drive, which I use just for editing images (see img-005).

So I have my raw cache folder set to D:0LR3 CACHE as shown below.4. Choose an Appropriate Standard Preview SizeLightroom uses Standard Previews in the Filmstrip, Grid thumbnails, as well as in preview content areas of the Slideshow, Print and Web Modules. Having Standard Previews set too high will unnecessarily slow down your system without any benefit. To adjust your Standard Previews go to the catalog settings by pressing Ctrl + Alt +, or select it in the ‘Edit’ menu. Remember that Catalog Settings are specific to each catalog, so you do want to set it with each catalog.I’m typically editing on two 24 inch monitors that run at high resolutions (1920 x 1200). I am using the two screen functionality of Lightroom to display a full preview on my second monitor.

Because of this, I’m going to choose the Standard Preview size at 2048 at a High Preview Quality. But, this may be far too high for many of you.For example, if you’re on a 17 inch monitor, you’re probably running 1280 x 1080 or smaller resolutions, so you can afford to get away with 1440 pixels or even 1024 pixels as your Standard Preview size. Choose a preview size based on your number of displays and resolution.

For most of you, 1024 Pixels at Medium Preview Quality is sufficient. Turn Off XMP Unless NeededGo into your Catalog Settings by pressing Ctrl + Alt +, and then go to the ‘Metadata’ tab of Catalog Settings and uncheck ‘automatically write changes into XMP’ as shown below.Unless you absolutely need to have your changes in XMP format, do not select this feature.

When this feature is selected, every time you make a change to one of your files, it is writing that information to a side card file and duplicating the amount of processing work. If you’re going image by image making these changes, it’s not going to slow down too much.

However, if you’re sitting there and batch editing, and you select 100 images and you have it do a batch synch across those 100 images, it’s also going to have to take twice the amount of time to write those settings into XMP. Probably 99% of you have absolutely no reason to be using XMP files. Optimize the Lightroom CatalogWhen your catalog file gets very large (10,000+ images), that’s when it’s probably good to optimize your catalogs.

Go to the ‘File’ menu and select ‘Optimize Catalog.’ That’s going to bring up a little dialogue box and you click ‘Optimize,’ which might take a few minutes to complete.Typically for us, each job is its own catalog, so we don’t typically need to use the Optimize Catalog feature because catalogs aren’t getting any larger than 3,000-5,000 images. But if you do have large catalogs, then it is good to optimize your catalog from time to time.

Render 1:1 Previews Prior to EditingThat brings us to our editing workflow. You may have noticed that when you are editing in the Lightroom Develop module it will frequently say ‘Loading’ when moving from image to image. In particular, when you zoom into a specific image to see fine detail as shown below.This is because Lightroom is having to render 1:1 Previews on the fly. To fix this issue you need to render previews prior to working.

To do so, go back to the ‘Library’ module, and make sure that all photos are available for view. The easiest way to do this is simply to select All Photographs in the Catalog Panel as shown below.The images don’t all have to be selected, but there can’t be any filters on.Now click the ‘Library’ menu, then ‘Previews’ and select ‘Render 1:1 Previews.’ Then select ‘Build All’ in the dialogue box. So long as no filters are selected when you select ‘Build All,’ it’s going to scan all existing previews that are in the catalog file and it’s going to build every single preview.

This process will take a bit of time. If your catalog sizes are around 100 images, it’ll probably take 5-10 minutes, depending on your computer speed and your hard drive speed. But if you are, say, shooting weddings where you have 3,000-5,000 images in a single catalog, this might take hours, depending on your system speed.

What I would recommend is to start this process the day before you’re going to start working on your images. If you have a fast machine, you can probably do this during your lunch hour. But, it’s absolutely crucial to have those images rendered prior to editing them so that you are not waiting for Lightroom to render each image preview as you try to edit. Keep Catalog Sizes Small. Arnel June 1, 2013 05:17 amI have a question.

I'm a photographer who recently started being paid to do sports photography. Before that, Photography was just for fun. Because I frequently come back from sporting events with 1500-2000 photos, I realized I couldn't get by with 2.0 USB. I changed everything to 3.0, and got a lexar Pro 1000X card. I shoot my pictures on M JPEG which are about 10MB.

I tried the small setting, but for some reasons they looked horrible. I have a Canon 5DMarkIII.

I also purchased a 3.0 MyBook external drive, and have OSX 10.8.3, processor 3.2 GHz Intel Core i%, with 8GB MHz DDR3. My monitor is a 24' monitor. So my question is, after I plugged in the card, plugged in the myBook (and the card reader by the way is also the Lexar 3.0) and tried to download photos, the speed is no different than my 2.0. Please can you tell me what I'm doing wrong?

I import through lightroom, but directly to the MyBook. If everything is 3.0, then why has nothing changed?

I'm almost in hysterics over this. I can't afford a Thunderbolt at the moment, even though I'd really like one. Teri April 15, 2013 04:18 pmHi,My lightroom catalogue is starting to get ridiculous (40,000 or so photos stretched across my laptops hard drive and an external hard drive). At the same time, as people will sometimes order without telling what event it's from (equine event/sports photographer) so I need to consolidate the photos into one catalogue, if I worked on each event in smaller lots (usually about 1000 photos for smaller events and 3000 or so for larger, 2 day events).

While I know you can export to catalogue for a collection, is there any better way to do this with collection sets?(Workflow is import to lightroom, sort into classes/rings/phases in collection set and then edit.)Any other ideas? (Need to still have Lightroom editing ability to recrop for prints etc.).

Jastereo May 25, 2012 02:00 pm@DebScally - Re: softer images in Library mode. You probably have your standard size preview 'size' set too low for the monitor size you're using (see #4 above). The Library (when in loupe view) uses the standard size previews and generally is scaling them to 'fit' the space you have to show them (depending on what panels you have open/closed, etc). So if you have them set to a small size (like 1024) and it's stretching that out to fill your large screen it can look slightly soft. Increase it to a larger size preview (see the instructions above) re-render them and you will be good to go.Not to confuse the issue more but just as an FYI and so people know whats going on, this should only be an issue if you're a) using a large pixel dense screen b) have a your std preview size set too low for it & c) have rendered standard size previews but NOT rendered 1-1 previews. If lightroom has the full sized (1-1) preview it will not be 'soft' since it knows enough to use the largest preview it has (the 1-1) to fill the screen.

You can see this in action (and check to see if that's what's going on) but zooming in at 1-1 in the Library module - like if you were going in to check focus. To do that lightroom will have to fully render the 1-1 preview - so when you pull back out to full screen it should be sharp.For more LR speed optimization tips (and a deeper dive on some of these) see adobe's similar list: http://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom/kb/optimize-performance-lightroom.html.

Megan September 20, 2011 07:26 amI have tried all the tips in this article, including recently replacing my hard drive so that it is. Mark September 10, 2011 06:21 amIf you have a tower Mac, put as many drives in as possible and strip them together in Disk Utiltiy.A Mac Pro takes four drives, so one drive for OS and Apps, stripe three together for speed and you get 300-400MB/sec read and write for catalogues and images. AWESOME SPEED!It does mean you are putting everything at risk, any one of the three drives fails and you lose everything, so you need proper backup.

A simple RSYNC/SCP thing to an external Drobo and you're covered for 24 hours. Post Production Pye September 10, 2011 04:42 am-S, if you are importing from a single source (one card or HD) and intend to work on your images right after importing, then yes, it makes sense rendering on import. However, we most often import files, and work on the catalog file later.

If you are importing from multiple cards, and having render 1:1 on, then it will slow down the import process. We want to get our files into Lightroom, and get back to working on our current jobs as fast as possible. To do that, turn off the 1:1 preview until you are ready to work, then run the previews.- Ben, changes made to images in Lightroom are stored in the.lrcat file naturally. When you take an image directly from Lightroom to Photoshop, these changes are automatically transferred. If you want to backup your changes, backup the catalog itself. XMPs are only needed when transferring to machines or individuals that don't use Lightroom.

The XMP files allow you to make changes in Lightroom, then be able to transfer those changes to a non-adobe application while being able to view the Lightroom changes. To see more on the actual uses and practical uses for XMP, check out Chapter 8 of the Lightroom Guide on slrlounge.com. Post Production Pye September 10, 2011 04:29 amErik, changes are stored in the.lrcat (Lightroom Catalog) file, this is where all your work is stored. The.lrdata folder is simply where previews are located.As a professional, we work with 400+ LR catalog a year. We have never lost or had any LR catalog file damaged. That is also what the catalog backup function is for.

We don't use XMPs to keep Lightroom running optimally. In fact, this performance recommendation is one from Adobe themselves.

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Of course, you choose what you want to do, however the vast majority of people that are using this function have absolutely no need for it and are just unnecessarily slowing down Lightroom's performance. If you need a back up solution, run the catalog back up, or simply make a copy of your catalog file. This is just as safe, and it won't slow down Lightroom. S September 10, 2011 02:35 amNice, though I don't see why you wouldn't want to render the 1:1 preview at import time, since you need them anyway before editing. Doing so at import time just lets you go grab a coffee and have everything ready when you get back. No need to wait and pay attention until the import to finish so that you can finally start the 1:1 rendering. And wait again.

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Sure, you could cull some photos without the 1:1 but I have to peep closer often enough that rendering 1:1 at import makes more sense. Your mileage may vary.