High Sierra Photos Editing Issue

NO! IT DID NOT FIX MINE. Still slow. Maybe a tad faster, but not working fluidly with RAW photos.

Still not fixed right? I am continuing to have this issue.

All my pix are jpeg

Photos seems to be working fine now. Are you able to import and edit RAW files?

Thanks for keeping us posted about the news from Apple Support, Robert and Bob. That will help others.

Painful is the correctful adjective! RAW and DNG files both result in slowdowns, freezes, otherwise bizarre behavior.

Rob

RETOUCH STILL DOES NOT WORK!!! Does anyone have any knowledge on how to fix it or change it??? It's beyond frustrating! #ShameOnMac

That's not even the worst which can happen to you with retouch. I just noticed that on a large export (200+ pictures, RAW to PNG) the retouch steps were all corrupted, leaving tiny patches of nonsense. Nice to notice after publishing. So better check your results twice until Apple fixes this. All in all Photos on High Sierra has become a performance nightmare and now this on top, argh 😠.

I second all of that bad experience. Photos was always crash-prone in the past, not to talk about suddenly loosing the retouch cursor or zooming not working any longer.

But this is a new level beyond any quality assurance department's pride. Times two.

Yes, it's slower and the granular look I saw too, looks like it's updating in the background or something. Navigation (back and forth) in editing also breaks down the whole time. And the retouch artifacts are perhaps due to crashes and the pipeline steps somehow getting corrupted, because adding more retouch actions seems to get things back to track. Oh, and add the annoying effect of the right levels adjustment thingy somethings vanishing. Rant over 😢

I stopped using it for now until the worst is fixed. Given the history of Photos though I wouldn't count on too much relief.

Out of curiosity: are you working with raw image formats?

I somehow have the impression that this is a "niche" Apple doesn't test too well regarding the MacOS Photos app. Usually I'm editing 24 megapixel RAW images and have always been encountering a decent amount of crashes and instabilities the last two years. Yet not on a such a high level, no pun intended.

The great workflow and the very easy, lnobrainer handling of RAW images are the major reasons my I appreciate Apple Photos so much. I always shoot in RAW because I trust(ed) that I don't need a JPEG fallback.

Sadly 10.13.1 fixes nothing. At least regarding retouch corruption on the exported artifacts for me. As a matter of fact it has gotten worse because there seems to be a memory leak and just exporting a bit over 200 pictures grew the memory to 32GB, making MacOS freak out and telling me that the application memory got exhausted. Great job. Back to Sierra ...

May I ask (again, see above) if you edit RAW photos? I have the feeling that this was either not tested well enough or the usually higher amount of processing shows some issues sooner than with JPEG.

I (painfully) downgraded to Sierra and things are stable there. To be honest: not. The amount of bugs Photos has in 10.2.6 is still embarrassing. Since back I counted sudden crashes, disabled (wait for it ...) retouch cursors and temporarily rotated pictures if one goes through newly added material too fast 😟.

Exporting from RAW to PNG is not the same as exporting the originals. It includes running the whole image pipeline from RAW conversion to applying the retouching steps etc. Corrupting the original data would be the cherry on top, wouldn't it ? 😉

The 10.13.2 update has made no difference on my 2011 iMac. Selecting edit for any of my Olympus raw images causes photos to stall for nearly a minute with a spinning beach ball. Sometimes the program will crash after saving the edit. Waiting for an update to Photos that will fix this problem.