Go to ‘Preferences’ within Lightroom, and you will find you are able to turn off the option to ‘Use Graphics Processor’ (automatically ON) in the Performance area.

* Note : minimum OpenGL 3.3 to use the GPUĪre you suspect of that? Here’s a way to test it out. This is particularly good for those who have separate GPUs, but even those with integrated GPUs, as found on many popular Intel Processors, will notice the difference. This is troublesome since the size of both images and libraries have swollen so greatly.įinally to help combat this, as we reported when news broke, LR 6 and LR CC now uses the GPU of your computer for much of the tasks it handles, relieving the primary processor from shouldering the entire load. Lightroom was particularly subject to suffering from a general malaise of a system, and even up to LR 5, the program was handling the business it did in much the way it had before. To be fair, when we buy a new computer everything seems to run like a Jamaican sprinting team, but after a while, and after some abuse, they can have the performance ability of Nancy Kerrigan circa practice 1994. But, above all else, heavy users of the program could’ve done without added features and have really been longing for a performance upgrade. Let us be frank here and address the fact that the new and/or improved features added to this version, like the new filter brush, HDR and Panorama tools, facial recognition, and the slideshow builder are great.

If you have an Adobe Creative Cloud subscription, you can download the new Lightroom CC now, and if you don’t, much to the delight of many, you can purchase Lightroom 6 as a standalone product for $149, though know right now that should you opt that way, it will not include the Creative Cloud features such as syncing with LR Mobile. The long awaited update for Adobe Lightroom has finally landed, and from initial tests of my own, and other users, it has emerged from the chrysalis of childhood a broadly better, more mature, and hopefully future-proof and resilient program. But that was then, and this is now, and at 6, things are looking up. Yesterday, Lightroom was 5, and crumbled under the adult pressure that many photographers put it through.

Free adobe lightroom 6