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Please help. Performance tips and tricks on Camera RAW 6.6 needed.

Apr 23, 2012 3:18 AM

Hello I really need your help and I want to thank you in advance for your time!! I need performance tips and tricks for Camera raw 6.6 and Bridge CS5? I have Intel i7 920, with 16GB of RAM which I thought is powerful enough to make developing in Camera RAW smooth as butter but I am not getting that performance. When I slide the settings, it has a delay for the preview and it gets worse if I apply a vignette. I usually open the camera raw file to photoshop and sometimes it does take a considerable amount of time to load. Working on photoshop is great, quick as expected, but Camera RAW makes me cringe.

 

What tips and tricks would you suggest for performance boost? The best case scenario is to have the preview reflects the changes of the slider without delay. Is this possible?

 

Thank you very much.

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  • ndivino
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    1. ndivino,
    Apr 23, 2012 3:20 AM   in reply to ndivino
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    And also, I have a 1.5TB RAID 0 as my slave, 1.5 SATA hard drive as  a backup to my RAID 0 slave, and a SATA hard-drive for OS and programs.

     

    Thanks again.

     
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    Apr 23, 2012 6:05 AM   in reply to ndivino
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    Set Noise Reduction (Luminance) default to zero. Only apply at the end.

     
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    Apr 23, 2012 7:03 AM   in reply to ndivino
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    You might find some useful tips and tricks in this article How to tune Photoshop CS5 for peak performance

     

      http://blogs.adobe.com/crawlspace/2011/05/how-to-tune-photoshop-cs5-fo r-peak-performance.html

     
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  • ndivino
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    Apr 23, 2012 1:33 PM   in reply to ndivino
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    Thank you for your help.

    I found an adobe link on how to optimize lightroom and followed some tips there that are applicable to bridge. The notable setting I tweaked was to change my cache directory to my RAID 0 drive, and increased cached size to the maximum setting. The difference is night and day, and I am extremely  happy now. The only thing that still bugs me a little is that there is still a slight delay cropping when the vignette is not set to 0 . I can understand that's a little extreme though and I usually add the vignette at the end anyways.

     

    Yammer P:

    After making the tweaks, I was able to slide the settings with instant previews even with Noise Reduction (luminance) set to zero.

     

    Robert Shomier:

    Thank you for the link, I have seen that before and followed the directions. I upgraded to 16GB of RAM two weeks ago after reading the tips.

     

    Thank you guys again..

     
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  • Noel Carboni
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    Apr 25, 2012 7:32 AM   in reply to ndivino
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    Can you try to be more specific about just how much delay you're seeing?

     

    I have older Xeon x5460 processors in my workstation and I don't see an unacceptable delay.  I wouldn't call it "butter smooth", but it's quite interactive and I don't find myself overshooting slider adjustments.  I see no more than maybe 1/10th second delay when the image is shown completely in the preview pane.  A zoom operation itself yields more delay - on the order of maybe 1 second or a hair less, but once it's zoomed I again see maybe 1/10th second delay when moving sliders.  Quite acceptable.

     

    In your Lens Corrections setting, do you have any Distortion Correction Amount?  Try setting your default to 0 for that setting.

     

    Try the Photoshop CS6 beta.  I find responsiveness improved a good bit in that version.

     

    -Noel

     
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