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p.1 #12 · p.1 #12 · What is the best image SORTING/CULLING software you use? | |
skibum5 wrote:
Lightroom is very, very slow since it has to first Import photos and create a fully rendered preview of every single image! before it allows you to be able to peek at 100% views while sorting! That also takes up a lot of space, storing a full res, high quality preview for every single image (despite the fact that all RAWs today already include a full jpg preview already rendered inside of them!).
It is important to point out, the embedded jpeg is rendered using the in-camera processing engine based upon the user's specific camera settings, while any Lr generated preview (and in many cases this is true of most third party RAW processors) is based upon the specific user's ACR settings and chosen Camera Calibration profiles. The differences between the two can vary from subtle to extreme depending upon those individual settings, making culling more difficult for some folks since they can't quickly see what the default process will be.
This is why PM and Aperture (with the proper settings) are so much faster for initial viewing and sorting, is they are using the embedded jpeg. I do wish Adobe would offer a user preference for this, though those unfamiliar with the difference in appearance between camera generated jpegs and third party processed previews will have to learn to "see" the images differently during this process.
Also, Lr does not store previews for every image in the ACR cache, only a FIFO cache based upon the size you allowed in the preferences. The drive space used is always constant and really never varies. When the cache reaches capacity, it purges the oldest previews and rebuilds new ones as it goes along ... which becomes quite apparent when you scroll through very large libraries and have a small cache setting.
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