Speed Is A Feature · Here’s the thing: Lightroom 1 was insanely ridiculously astoundingly fast; qualitatively quicker than any photo-processing tool I’d ever been near. Along with the well-designed feature set, it was addictive. ¶
Then two things happened: First, starting with Lightroom 2, Adobe deliberately sacrificed quite a bit of that speed in exchange for some admittedly pretty attractive features. Secondly, photographers liked it enough to start pouring bazillions of pictures into it…
What I’d like Adobe to do is to slap a total feature freeze on Lightroom and focus on exactly nothing but making Lightroom 4 approximately as fast as Lightroom 1.
Tim Bray If Adobe took this to heart with CS6 they’d win back the hearts of million weary design nerds.
Here’s a conversation I’ve heard several times over: “Is CS5 any faster or less crashy?” “Not really.” “Fuck it.”
Speed. Speed and stability. These are the only features anyone wants out of these damned programs today.
