Lightroom CC Just Got Faster — Here's How to Actually Turn That Speed On

Lightroom CC Just Got Faster — Here's How to Actually Turn That Speed On

There’s a particular kind of frustration that comes from painting a local adjustment brush across a high-resolution RAW file and watching Lightroom chug along like it’s thinking really hard about your life choices. I’ve been there more times than I’d like to admit. It’s the kind of lag that makes you question your hardware, your file format, your entire career path. So when Adobe dropped Lightroom CC with a serious architecture overhaul under the hood, I paid attention immediately.

Lightroom 6/CC: An Honest Field Report on the Features Adobe Said Would Change Everything

Lightroom 6/CC: An Honest Field Report on the Features Adobe Said Would Change Everything

Every so often Adobe drops a major Lightroom release and the photography internet loses its mind. Speed boosts. AI features. Workflow revolution. I’ve been through enough of these cycles to know that the gap between the press release and the actual editing desk can be enormous. When Lightroom 6 and Lightroom CC landed, I was deep in the middle of editing a portrait session and genuinely needed to know whether upgrading mid-project was going to help me or blow up my afternoon.