Lightroom 6: black box/delay when switching from Develop to Library module

[mrswitters]

For the most part I am loving the new version of LR. One issue I've noticed is that when I switch from the Develop module to the Library (grid) view, a large black box appears in the image area, and there is a significant delay. Very often the spinning beach ball appears.

I am on a fast 5k iMac with my photos on a LaCie Big drive, running LR 6.0.1.

Thanks for your help.

 

[Erik Bailey]

Yes, I see the same on my Retina MacBook Pro. I assume its a defect in LR6 that will be fixed soon in an update... --Erik

 

[PWPhotography]

It's a known issue. There are other issues with 'use GPU' enabled such as blurry in parts of photos especially in wide pano photos when you view them, only mouse-focused area is sharp while other areas are blurry. And some tools such as spot-removal are actually noticeably slower in rendering with GPU enabled. Very often I have to turn off 'GPU' mode. Overall this GPU implementation is disappointing on my opinion as there are many drawbacks, many times those lagging are pretty annoying.

The best new features in LR6 are integrating brush tool in GND filter, and face reorganization, not perfect but useful. Not satisfied in pano and HDR features also.

 

[mrswitters]

Okay, thanks. Let's hope they address in an update. I'm just glad to know it's not only me.

I will say that some things have improved dramatically, like many adjustments happen in real-time vs. the big lag that used to be present.

 

[PWPhotography]

It's a known issue. There are other issues with 'use GPU' enabled such as blurry in parts of photos especially in wide pano photos when you view them, only mouse-focused area is sharp while other areas are blurry. And some tools such as spot-removal are actually noticeably slower in rendering with GPU enabled. Very often I have to turn off 'GPU' mode. Overall this GPU implementation is disappointing on my opinion as there are many drawbacks, many times those lagging are pretty annoying.

The best new features in LR6 are integrating brush tool in GND filter, and face reorganization, not perfect but useful. Not satisfied in pano and HDR features also.

I mean face recognition.

 

[PWPhotography]

Okay, thanks. Let's hope they address in an update. I'm just glad to know it's not only me.

I will say that some things have improved dramatically, like many adjustments happen in real-time vs. the big lag that used to be present.

Yes it's true especially when rendering entire photo under the Develop module, partially overcome retina-lagging issue. But that spot-removal feature which I use very often seems has obvious penalty with GPU enabled. With GPU disabled as the same as in LR5, there is no delay after applying one spot that I can move mouse away immediately but much delay in rendering with GPU enabled that I am unable to move mouse away until the photo is re-rendered. Imagine if you have 20 dusts to be removed.

Then HDR feature doesn't render to high contrast HDR merge with traditional 5 photos from -2EV to +2EV with 1EV step. It doesn't have much difference if I HDR-processed on 0EV single photo. Pano feature seems designed only to process a few stitched photos. It runs deadly slow with large-scale pano with 20 or more photos, and many times failed to generate preview if pano axis is moved some degree despite still have enough overlapping. I have tried on the same group of photos with PTGui Pro, not only merges much much faster but no problem still can merge those photos with axis moved. The only advantage is that LR6 HDR and Pano generate much-smaller-size DNG files directly in LR.

https://forums.adobe.com/message/7480830#7480830

Eric Chan from Adobe talked GPU issues in LR6/CC 2015.

 

[mrswitters]

I am still getting the black box when switching from Develop to Library. Was hoping this would have been addressed in the CC 2015 update, but it wasn't. Is everyone else still seeing it?

 

[christom]

Okay, thanks. Let's hope they address in an update. I'm just glad to know it's not only me.

I will say that some things have improved dramatically, like many adjustments happen in real-time vs. the big lag that used to be present.

While some tools have increased in speed, others have come to a crawl. It's a poor, bug ridden, performance sapping update that should not have been released as is. They can't even get the Creative Cloud updater/app to work right.

On a similar note, the current Photoshop now lags in disappearing the palettes when you switch over to another Space. There's like a half second delay before the palettes disappear. Very annoying. Even more annoying is that "Welcome" screen always popping up when you open the app.

 

[mrswitters]

I just downloaded the 6.1.1 update, and this issue seems to be resolved—at least in preliminary testing.

Has anyone else seen an improvement?

 

[PWPhotography]

I just downloaded the 6.1.1 update, and this issue seems to be resolved—at least in preliminary testing.

Has anyone else seen an improvement?

I upgraded to 6.1.1. Black screen is still there. Probably improved but not resolved. It's only get resolved if you turned off GPU utilization as in v6.0.

 

[mrswitters]

I just downloaded the 6.1.1 update, and this issue seems to be resolved—at least in preliminary testing.

Has anyone else seen an improvement?

I upgraded to 6.1.1. Black screen is still there. Probably improved but not resolved. It's only get resolved if you turned off GPU utilization as in v6.0.

Yes, unfortunately I spoke too soon. It is improved, but I still do see the black screen.

 

[CameraCarl]

Adobe seems to be claiming that it is an Apple problem, not theirs. So until these two giants stop squabbling we're unlikely to see a fix.