Speed Up Photo Viewing in Lightroom with 1:1 Previews
Ask any photographer their least-favorite thing about Adobe Lightroom, and they will most likely tell you it’s the application’s speed. There are a few tricks to help optimize the responsiveness of Lightroom, and this minute-long Lightroom coffee break video focuses on generating 1:1 previews.
Lightroom’s Benjamin Warde notes that this will increase the time it will take for the initial import while Lightroom generates all of those previews for you. This is a good opportunity to grab a coffee (or a nap, depending how many photos you’re importing).
If you understand the trade-off and you don’t mind the extra import time, here’s how you do it. Go to Lightroom’s import dialog and look under the File Handling panel, change Build Previews to 1:1.
That’s it. Lightroom’s Loupe View may now be just as fast as Photo Mechanic.