I purchased the new Adobe Lighroom 3.0 soon after it was released. This confirms it. I am stupid.
Edit: Lightroom 3.2 has been released. Read my review of it here: http://204eastsouth.com/skippy/2010/11/adobe-lightroom-3-2-review-much-sucktion-to-be-found/.
What’s wrong with Lightroom 3.0? It’s not the features. The features are just fine. It’s the fact that the software is buggy as all get up, runs slow, has amazingly poor memory management and quite simply doesn’t work sometimes.
1. When moving files from one folder to another in the library module I always get the following error for one of the files I’m trying to move when I move multiple files.
There was an error copying files to the destination you selected. The following files could not be copied: File could not be moved to the selected destination. (1) filname.dngYup, every time. Once I hit “OK” (and no it’s not ok) I can then move the file individually with no problem.
2. Would I like to send an error report to Microsoft? Apparently I would. In fact I love sending error reports. I start Lightroom 3 and very first thing my computer wants to know if I want to send an error report to Microsoft. Lightroom 3 crashes upon start up about 30% of the time.
3. Lightroom 3 is slow. Oh my is it slow. I’m running an i7 with 3G of RAM and Lightroom 3 just putters along. On one of the forums I look at now and then someone tried to blame Lightroom’s slow performance on Windows 7. “It’s a new operating system” was the reason given. Few people hate Microsoft and Windows as much as I do, but let’s not blame this on Windows. Additionally, I’m running Windows XP. That is not a new operating system.
Lightroom 3 doesn’t run well on Windows 7, because it’s a new operating system. Lightroom 3 doesn’t run well on Windows XP, probably because it’s an old operating system. Question is – exactly what operating system was Lightroom 3 designed to run on? If Adobe could hire someone who knows how to program it could run on Linux and there would be no issue.
4. No, the file can be found. No, there is plenty of memory available. And don’t you dare ask me “What background programs are you running?” None. This is not my first day with a computer.
When exporting files Lightroom 3 frequently either runs out of memory or can’t find the files. If I close and restart this has always fixed the problem of not being able to find a file. Most of the time it fixes the memory errors, but not always. At least twice I’ve had to actually restart the computer to fix this.
And no, I’m not running any background programs. Give it a rest.
5. The only feature related problem I have with Lightroom 3.0 is the grain function in the “effects” sections of the develop module. I don’t know if anyone at Adobe has ever seen film grain before but I have. This doesn’t look like film grain to me. It just looks like crap.
The Develop module should be called the Maybe You’ll Develop Something Today Or Maybe You’ll Just Get Pissed Off module.
1. When moving to the next photo it takes forever for the “loading” message to go away. Okay, yes, “forever” is a relative term. Usually 6 to 12 seconds.
2. I got the “an unknown error has occurred” on the second image I attempted to edit with Lightroom 3. That’s when I knew things were only gonna get worse.
3. Sometimes when I zoom in on an image all I get is black. The image vanishes. Usually restarting Lightroom will fix this but sometimes I have to restart the computer.
4. Sometimes I’ll move sliders to change the image and the lag time between moving the slider and seeing the result can be as much as 20 seconds.
I’m pretty sure all of these are symptoms of poor memory management – which follows from poor coding.
On the good side?
1. You can now export slideshows as mp4 movies. With sound. That just makes my day. Plus you can select your audio track, select the crossfade speed you want and then have Lighroom adjust the display time for the photos so it matches the length of the audio track. This is something I really like.
2. The new lens correction function is something I use all the time. What is really great is the fact that it has profiles for the common lenses already set up. Since the EXIF data of the image tells Lightroom which lens you used all ya have to do is check the box to use lens correction and the correct profile is automatically selected.
3. Lightroom 3.0 and Lightroom 2.x can coexist on the same computer. Good thing since sometimes I need to actually be able to process photos instead of send error reports.
4. Lightroom 3.0 lets you back-up and optimize your catalog when you close Lightroom instead of asking to do a back-up when you open Lightroom as it did in the 2.x versions.
I’m sure there are more good things, but it’s hard to find them when I have to keep restarting the program to get any work done.
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Oh and . . . I had requested in the Adobe Lightroom Beta 3 forum that Lightroom be able to export as PNG. I was told that there was no reason for this and JPG is superior. Here is a news flash Adobe assholes. I have a customer who wants PNG files. Thus I need PNG export, regardless of your asshole opinions. You know what the superior file format is? The file format the customer wants. Not the file format some asshole programmer thinks is better.
Adobe – get a grip.
Using i7 930 – 24 GB memory – 3 sets of raid 0 – operating & programs, files, scratch disk & bkup – it crashes all the time – but not slow – doesn't matter, crashing all the time sucks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have many of the same problems:
When moving files around, Lightroom 2.7 worked flawlessly. This error happens 80% of the time–whether I'm moving 4 files or 80.
I've also had LR crash on launch.
Not pleased!
Last night Lightroom 3.0 crashed and lost all my star ratings for 300 wedding photos. I got to start all over again. Way to go Adobe!
Hi there, Did you try any of the upgrades? Is it stable now? I’d like to buy it, but not if it’s still a POS.
Thanks,
Sean
Hi Sean -
I need to review LR 3.2. It still has some problems. The crashing upon startup has not happened with 3.2. It is still slow. Still has many “unknown errors”. New problem is that sometimes it makes my screens flicker. It is better, but not 100%.
Skippy
I have a cure for any future stupid purchase you might be tempted to make: look into torrents :)
Hi asdasd,
While I see where you are coming from I’ll tell you why you are wrong.
1. If I had a cracked version of Lightroom it would still perform exactly the same.
2. Since I have paid for Lightroom I now have the “right” (I don’t really like using that word but will anyway) to complain about it. I am a customer of Adobe and they will fucking listen to me or I will assault their reputation. If I steal their product I hold no moral high ground.
3. Cracked software often comes with virus and pOrn issues. Thanks but no thanks.
AN UNKNOWN ERROR HAS OCCURRED – what kind of errormessage is that? wtf should I do when I get this ALL THE TIME??
I paid good money for Lightroom 3 – I regret it daily.
You gotta admit : there is something to say for the sadistic contrast between the fancy interface on the one hand and the ultra-crappy, super-buggy file-, memory- and thread- management of this “software”
For the love of god, fix this Adobe !!
I feel your pain. Someone on the LinkedIn forum suggested thing might be caused by anitvirus software. I run AVG and I’m going to test that theory. Even should this turn out to be true it’s still stupid.
You are right about one thing – LR does have a great interface to hide all the poor programming. I’ll be writing another post soon about why open source software will always work better even if it’s not as pretty as closed source software. Adobe does need to get their shit together.