Lightroom vs Photoshop strain on computer

4 years 5 months ago #666754 by Mike McKinnon
Which program uses more of your computers resources?

I always thought it was Photoshop, however when I'm in Lightroom, my computer always seems to work harder.  

Why is that?


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4 years 5 months ago #666757 by Nikon Shooter
if you work in library mode, Lr will surely run slower but saves all
tweaks in sidecar files. Ps use a lot of scratch space on your disk.

Light is free… capturing it is not!
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4 years 5 months ago #666762 by Shadowfixer1

Nikon Shooter wrote: if you work in library mode, Lr will surely run slower but saves all
tweaks in sidecar files. Ps use a lot of scratch space on your disk.

Not exactly true. Lightroom only stores data in sidecar files if you set it up to do that but it doesn't use sidecars as it's normally installed.
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4 years 5 months ago #666781 by garyrhook
What Randy said, above. And it depends upon what you're doing. Certain operations in LR are compute-intensive (healing, for one notable example). Creating previews requires lots of work, as does exporting. 

Both like lots of memory, but like fast drives, both like plenty of CPU.  And both can use your GPU for processing.


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4 years 5 months ago #666830 by Peter P
What sort of RAM are you running in your machine?  


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4 years 5 months ago #666881 by Ted Helm
Funny is that I use both and have never seen or noticed rather any difference in computer performance when using one program over the other.


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4 years 4 months ago - 4 years 4 months ago #667699 by clippingphotoexperts
If you shoot raw photos (which you should), then I recommend that you first import your photos into Lightroom as the initial step of your image management process. Lightroom is a raw file editor so you don’t need Adobe Camera Raw. Also, because of the photo management capabilities of Lightroom, you’ll be organizing your digital photography as you import.

Lightroom is perfect for most basic photo editing, including (but not limited to) cropping, white balance, exposure, histogram adjustments, tonal curves, black and white conversion, spot removal, red eye corrections, gradients, local adjustments, sharpening, noise reduction, lens profile corrections, vibrance, and saturation. If you’re comfortable in Adobe Camera Raw, then developing a photo in Lightroom will look very familiar. If you’re a beginning photographer, you’ll most likely be satisfied with these features. Lightroom is also much easier to use than Photoshop, which can have more of a steep learning curve.





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