Performance in PSE 3.0

Was perfomance improved in PSE 3.0? I have PSA 2.0 with ~12000 photos and it is starting to get very slow... I guess I can split my photos into several catalogs, but I would loose the ability to search across my entire collection, or has this changed in PSE 3.0?

I would say that 3.0 is somewhat faster than 2.0 (especially when scrolling), but not significantly faster.

was told there is still a delay when scrolling images one at a time. this makes the image blurry for a second. Picasa does not have this delay after the first time a picture is viewed. i am not sure why it is hard for adobe to do the same.

Jim,

As I mentioned when I responded and said that I did experience a slight blurry delay at the one image level, I don't view this as a problem.

First, I do not use the photo well for viewing images one at at time. Its usefullness is in scanning multiple images.

Second, v3 has Photo Review where you can step thru selected images one at a time. I do not experience the blurry at first phenomena with Photo Review.

BarbO

great

that was my holdup. it sounds like if you put images into photoreview you can view them without any delay. i am going to buy pe 3.

While in the Organizer in PSE-3 [WIN-XP version] (e.g. to assign pics to sub-categories & tags) I certainly see a rather strong (annoying) delay when I scroll the pics. Actually, this reminds me of the early days of the Web when it took "forever" for a pic to load.
People who have noticed this flaw (a "shortcomming" if you are VERY generous) aren't dreaming -- it sure does exist!

Now, once the thumbnails are finally loaded, their visual quality is indeed very good. But you sure have to wait before you can see them in that state. It's by no means a "near instantaneous" process.

Duke

Duke

Not sure what you are referring to. Scrolling in Organizer is very quick. When you first import, it takes a while to build the thumbnails.

Runs fast for me, too and I have 6,000 photos for now. There is a slight fuzziness at first but it only lasts a second - not a big deal. It is surpisingly fast when I have smaller thumbnails and scroll through the entire database. I have not tried photoreview yet.

Depends on your machine, too. I have a 1.6ghz P4 with XP2-SP2 and 512M RAM. I will probably add another 512 in RAM soon.

Colin, ejwebb: You guys you must be feeding your PC with steroids every morning! LOL

ejwebb: Right now, the system on which PSE-3 is running is comparable to yours. So, it's not the hardware... unless, of course a particular chip on our graphic card would be "slow" compared to the one you and Colin have.

Of course if you keep your thumbnails very small, the slowness improves but still remains noticeable.

I gues it's something we'll have to learn to live with. :-((

Duke

if you keep your thumbnails very small




For the records, I use 4/5 across the screen.

I have no fancy hardware - certainly not graphics, as it's a notebook.

Do you have the latest video drivers?

I have now tried Photo Review and have to say that I am dissappointed in it's speed - much slower than the Organizer is at scrolling throught the full-size thumbnails. And this is after I added another 512M RAM. The fuziness is still there when scrolling through the images in the Organizer - lasts about a second - same as before I added the RAM. The added RAM does not appear to make a differences here but does provide more breathing room when editing photos.

Now I know that the bottleneck is the processor or maybe video driver, however, Irfanview can scroll screen-size thumbnails much faster than the Photo Review function of PSE 3. I'll probably continue to use Irfanview for quick reviews - it is fast and free and provides a lot of functionality.

ejwebb

My machine is just slightly lower power than yours and has 512Mb Ram. I am amazed at how fast Review mode is. Guess it's a matter of what you're used to.