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Adobe Releases Lightroom 5.6
« on: July 31, 2014, 01:36:39 pm »

Adobe released Lightroom 5.6 today:
http://blogs.adobe.com/lightroomjournal/2014/07/lightroom-5-6-now-available.html

I have noticed an increase with performance with this release of 5.6.
In the past my thumbnails took an extremely long time to load from my Drobo 5D. Now it seems to be fast.
Even now when I click on Develop I am not getting the spinning ball like I was getting with 5.5.
Overall the performance to me seems to be much better.
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Re: Adobe Releases Lightroom 5.6
« Reply #1 on: August 01, 2014, 04:02:11 pm »

Interestingly, lots of folk on the Adobe-hosted Lr forum complaining that 5.6 is much slower than 5.5.

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Re: Adobe Releases Lightroom 5.6
« Reply #2 on: August 01, 2014, 10:05:29 pm »

I think LR 5.6 is slower. I'm running a dual processor HP workstation, 32 GB ram. Feels like LR has been getting slower as the releases count up. I wish they would rewrite/compile LR to take advantage of dual processors. Photoshop CC is written to take advantage of dual processors. And it shows, zoom, zoom!
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Re: Adobe Releases Lightroom 5.6
« Reply #3 on: August 02, 2014, 01:48:40 am »

Most of the processes haven't changed, but there is one thing that has slowed to be being broken on my machine now: import. I usually import by reference by synchronising the photo folder. Every sub step takes so long that windows 7 starts sending messages that Lr is not responding.
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Re: Adobe Releases Lightroom 5.6
« Reply #4 on: August 02, 2014, 05:21:19 am »

I think LR 5.6 is slower. I'm running a dual processor HP workstation, 32 GB ram. Feels like LR has been getting slower as the releases count up. I wish they would rewrite/compile LR to take advantage of dual processors. Photoshop CC is written to take advantage of dual processors. And it shows, zoom, zoom!
LR does, in some areas at least. If you export say a hundred images, it's supposedly faster if you do 2x50 or 4x25 images. Never actually timed it myself.
PS has been multicore aware since the last century I believe.
And more cores are not always better...



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Re: Adobe Releases Lightroom 5.6
« Reply #5 on: August 02, 2014, 07:22:15 am »

Lr 5.6 is quicker across the board than 5.5 for me on my Win 7/64 bit box.
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Re: Adobe Releases Lightroom 5.6
« Reply #6 on: August 02, 2014, 07:36:44 am »

It seems like it may be machine-dependent. Here, too, LR 5.6 is noticeably faster than 5.5 (Win 7/64, 16G Ram). All versions up to 5.4 had been fine on my machine, and 5.5 was just unbearably slow (made me feel as if I had 1 gig or Ram instead of 16). With ver.5.6, it's back to normal (and it seems like it's actually more responsive than any previous ver.5.*, although I haven't had time to check every single process, so don't know) -- no complaints so far.
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Re: Adobe Releases Lightroom 5.6
« Reply #7 on: August 02, 2014, 11:01:27 am »

I am noticing a slowdown in exports to smugmug since updating to 5.6. I am not sure if it is LR, my ISP or smugmug being slow
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Re: Adobe Releases Lightroom 5.6
« Reply #8 on: August 02, 2014, 06:05:57 pm »

Thumbnail's in Grid seem faster to redraw on this end with 5.6 compared to 5.5 although that's not scientific analysis by any means. Running OS X.
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Re: Adobe Releases Lightroom 5.6
« Reply #9 on: August 03, 2014, 12:58:19 pm »

Oh thank God

Lr 5.5 is positively a snail now and I was worried that something was wrong with my computer.
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Re: Adobe Releases Lightroom 5.6
« Reply #10 on: August 03, 2014, 02:40:38 pm »

Seems quicker overall here too.  W7, i7, 32gigs RAM, dual SSD for program, scratch, catalog.

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Re: Adobe Releases Lightroom 5.6
« Reply #11 on: August 03, 2014, 10:27:16 pm »

Faster here too!  Top tier system.
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Re: Adobe Releases Lightroom 5.6
« Reply #12 on: August 04, 2014, 06:31:46 am »

Also a bit quicker, more responsive on my Mac.
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Re: Adobe Releases Lightroom 5.6
« Reply #13 on: August 09, 2014, 03:02:50 am »

Hmm, the upright correction is wrong in LR 5.6
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Re: Adobe Releases Lightroom 5.6
« Reply #14 on: August 09, 2014, 08:00:00 am »

Hmm, the upright correction is wrong in LR 5.6

How so?
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Re: Adobe Releases Lightroom 5.6
« Reply #15 on: August 09, 2014, 02:13:35 pm »

Hmm, the upright correction is wrong in LR 5.6

Nothing has (intentionally) changed in upright behavior between 5.5 and 5.6.  That is:  If upright doesn't work correctly on a particular image in 5.6, it wouldn't have worked correctly on that image in 5.5, either.
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Re: Adobe Releases Lightroom 5.6
« Reply #16 on: August 10, 2014, 10:12:15 am »

Problems noted, unable to convert batch files to DNG even selecting all files only the first one is converted.
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Re: Adobe Releases Lightroom 5.6
« Reply #17 on: August 10, 2014, 01:41:21 pm »

Problems noted, unable to convert batch files to DNG even selecting all files only the first one is converted.


Did you check you were in grid-view?

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Re: Adobe Releases Lightroom 5.6
« Reply #18 on: August 10, 2014, 01:46:05 pm »

Problems noted, unable to convert batch files to DNG even selecting all files only the first one is converted.
Can't replicate on this end, using a Mac and as bns suggested, doing this in Library (select images within Grid).
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Re: Adobe Releases Lightroom 5.6
« Reply #19 on: August 11, 2014, 11:35:59 am »

Hi thanks for the information I was not in grid view but used to convert them this way before ie filmstrip view

Looks like it only works in grid view but at least it works
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