
Dropbox, Box, Google Drive, Evernote, Creative Cloud – nothing was turned off. I had Safari and Chrome open with over 30 tabs, Mail was open with several in-progress emails minimized, iTunes was playing music, CrashPlan was backing up in the background, etc., etc. But that’s all a moot point, now – and thank God (I mean…thank some engineers at Adobe, I guess).įor those interested, all of these times are based on a very real-world environment on my 15” i7 fully-loaded Retina MacBook Pro (pre-Thunderbolt 2).

It likely would have been an equally dark and murky experience in the depressingly small world of slow-performing photo editors that also help catalog, tag, and share your work in every way imaginable. What greener pastures existed for me beyond Lightroom are quite unclear. Today, with the introduction of Lightroom 6 come speed enhancements that will keep me around at least until Lightroom 7. Yesterday, Lightroom was a brilliant all-in-one library catalog manager and color/tone editor that I didn’t want to live without, but that I was still considering leaving for something else. the traditional sharp-cornered square logo.

The Lightroom CC logo (left) differs just slightly from the standalone Lightroom 6 logo (right) with rounded edges (reminiscent of the style of an iOS application icon) vs.
