Lightroom 5 Issue - Beware

[keith reeder]

<p>No straight answer to that one, Thomas - 5 is pretty brisk for me on my relatively modestly-specced machine, but so is 4 (5 <em>is</em> faster); but on the Adobe Lr forum, people are complaining about 5 being slow.</p>

<p>You'll need to try it for yourself.</p>

[Dave410]

<p>Lr5 seems faster than Lr4 to me, and it does a lot more. Several annoying bugs were corrected (and one introduced) and that new Upright feature is worth the price of admission.</p>

[keith reeder]

<p>I'm really taken by the new healing brush - that's the "must have" for me. </p>

<p>I certainly couldn't have got from <a href="http://www.kazemisu.me.uk/images/moto-x/IMG_5500_before_lr.jpg">this</a> to <a href="http://www.kazemisu.me.uk/images/moto-x/moto-x_cambois_Lr_1b.jpg">this</a> in Lr 4.</p>

[pbalko]

<p>I likewise had to upgrade my box when I moved from LR 3 to 4. I'm pleasantly surprised that there seems to be no performance difference between 4 and 5 on my AMD Athlon II X4 630 2.80 GHz processor with 8GB RAM. A few of the PS CC filters do drag however, including Smart Sharpen which, for the purposes of this thread is almost relevant.</p>

[digitaldog]

<p>All things being equal, I don't find 5 slower than 4, about the same. I'm using a few year's old machine (can't wait for a new MacPro).<br /> People complain because they make a pile of selective edits which can bog the app down with either version.</p>

[Mark Keefer]

<p>Thanks for the heads up.</p>