7 Tips for Making Lightroom Run Faster
Not happy with Lightroom’s sluggish performance on your computer? Here’s a helpful 15-minute video in which photographer and instructor Anthony Morganti shares a number of helpful tips for optimizing your Lightroom’s performance.
Here’s a quick breakdown of the main performance optimization tips discussed in-depth in the video:
#1. Build 1:1 Previews: Make Lightroom create a 1:1 preview of your photo files, trading extra disk space and slower importing for faster performance while working with your photos.
#2: Discard Previews: Have Lightroom automatically discard your 1:1 previews after a certain number of days to free up disk space.
#3: Preview Size and Quality: Make sure your preview size and quality and set to appropriate settings for your monitor.
#4: Camera Raw Cache Settings: Increase your cache size as large as you can from the default of 1GB.
#5: Use Graphics Professor: Try enabling or disabling the use of your graphics processor to see if that improves performance.
#6: Smart Previews: You can give up disk space and editing quality by using Smart Previews for faster performance.
#7: Optimize Catalog: Use the built-in optimization tool to keep things humming along over time.
Watch the video at the top of the post for a more detailed look at how you can make these adjustments and what they can do for you.
The video is episode #92 in Morganti’s helpful Lightroom Quick Tips video series. You can find his entire collection of videos on his YouTube channel.