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Getting faster performance out of Lightroom

Getting faster performance out of Lightroom

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Getting faster performance out of Lightroom

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- If you're using Adobe Photoshop Lightroom CC, that's the actual full name of the product so I feel like I need to say it that way. If you're using Lightroom, the latest version of Lightroom, there's a single switch you can throw in Lightroom's preferences that may speed up certain parts of your post production process. To understand that switch though, you need to know something about how Lightroom works under the hood. When you import images into Lightroom, one of the things that Lightroom does during that import process, is build preview files. Basically, it takes your RA file or whatever it is, and builds just a nice size JPEG that it can stash in its own catalog. So that when it needs to show you the image while you're just thumbing through the images in a folder, it can just quickly show you those JPEGs. Rather than having to grab a RA file, decompress and apply it, so on a so forth. 'Cause JPEGs are not…

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