Here’s the explanation for the behaviour you’re experiencing Once PL completed the “background work” that you noticed, it was then normally responsive - until you pointed it at a new folder, when the slow-down was repeated.You found there to be many new sidecar/.dop files in the folder you had been browsing.You found PL to be VERY slow to start-up to the point where you could use it for editing.Paraphrasing your post (see link above), you observe Reading from your blog post, I believe you have slightly misdiagnosed your problem - with implications resulting from the “fix” you have applied. Since I’m not a Mac user I can’t comment on any issues you are having on that platform. Additionally, to the best of my recollection, a production version of PhotoLab has never crashed on my Windows machine, and I use it almost every day.Ĭan you share your Windows processor, memory, and video card details with us? Clearly something is impacting PhotoLab on your Windows machine but I’m pretty sure that the default DXO Standard preset or writing to dop files is not the root cause since I have been doing just that for the last two and a half years. In fact it runs much faster on my machine than ON1 Photo Raw 2020. I run PhotoLab 3.3 on an almost 4 year old Windows 10 machine with an older mid-level nVidia card and have no significant performance issues. If any DxO staff read this, please fix this in a future release. I have also documented the fix in my blog ( ) in case the above isn’t sufficient. When I changed my preferences, the software was back to normal. Something, possibly these setting or their effect, changed during an upgrade. Additionally, they were set to auto generate a dop file every time there was an adjustment. In brief, when I checked my Preferences, I found they had been changed to apply a “DxO Standard” adjustment to all discovered images. I finally tracked down the problem and a fix which worked for me and others. This happened on both my Mac and Windows versions. I couldn’t even browse through my folders and the software would also crash from time to time. Photolab went from having similar performance to Lightroom to being unusable, often taking minutes to reflect a simple change. It’s easy to suspect a hardware problem but then I also had the same issue. Another very strong point is that they have a library of optical modules for a great number of lenses and camera bodies that correct distortion, vignetting, chromatic aberration and lens sharpness - automatically, so you start with an image that has been corrected for the defects that accompany so many lenses.īTW, PhotoLab is not free, only the 30 day free trial.Over the past few months, I’ve received quite a few comments on my website and YouTube Channel complaining about the poor performance of PhotoLab. You can adjust any setting in any order, even going back to RAW settings like exposure correction if needs be. The only time you generate jpeg or tiff files is when you have got to the stage when you want to either send a jpeg to a website or email, or a tiff for printing, etc.įrom my point of view, you don't have a two stage process of conversion then editing. PhotoLab writes all its data to a DOP sidecar files, doesn't change the original RAW file and doesn't convert the images to its own format. There is absolutely no chance of conflict between PhotoLab and PS.
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