Since upgrading to High Sierra a frequently used feature for me in the Photos app is the retouch tool. Since the upgrade it's been very, very slow. On a few photo it starts out quickly and then the touches which should be immediate are delayed or simply don't happen at all.
Hopefully, if anyone else is running into this, that the upcoming 10.13.1 will fix it.
iMac (27-inch, Late 2012), macOS High Sierra (10.13)
My Photos is at present working as it should!!! Here is the pain I went through to get this working and the some pain I continue to have:
I will keep checking Photos over the next week and post if it starts acting up again I still have to install Steam and Parallels and I will post if those break Photos.
Hope that helps - Will send Apple feedback as well.
I was just playing around with a RAW file from an Oly EM1. This is after the 10.13.3 update. The moment I attempted to make any sort of an edit on the file my computer froze and was unusable for just over a minute. Same with a Nikon RAW file from a D7000. Jpegs are much more usable. Before High Sierra, editing of RAW and Jpegs was not an issue.
So no, no real fix yet that I'm seeing.
After about 15 years of being an Apple user this is the first time I've ever had a complaint about an OS update, paid or unpaid.
After installing 10.13.4 I see no change.
That is very disappointing. Did you install the upgrade completely new (by booting into the Recovery Partition About macOS Recovery - Apple Support), or did you install just the incremental update?
BobSnow wrote:
Incremental update.
Incremental updates do not help much, if the problem is with system parts that have been installed by a previous version. I am occasionally reinstalling the system from recovery, to be sure that I get a consistent system. But this update does not mention any specific Photos bugfixes anyway, only fix for graphics problems on the iMac Pro:
https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT208533
Fixes graphics corruption issues affecting certain apps on iMac Pro.
The Retouch tool does not cause any performance problems on my MacBook Pros (mid 2015), only the results are poor and disappointing.
I am using only the Luminar 2018 extension for retouching for the time being.
The Retouch Tool is not just slow, it is giving strange results when sampling the texture.
The result seems to depend on the position of the sampled area and on the number of previous edits.
For example - I wanted to clone the cloud in this RAW file from my Panasonic DMC FZ300:
I cloned the cloud in the middle and brushed it in into the lower left corner, the upper left corner, the upper right corner and lower right corner. Brushing in the texture to the left of the sampled area seems to work, but to the right will result in a faint blurred area instead.
When I revert the image to the original I can suddenly duplicate the cloud in the area to the right of the cloud too. Retouching seems to work as expected, as long as I retouch at most two blemishes and no previous edits have been applied. The same happens with the RAW files from my Canon EOS 5D Mark II.
I just updated to High Sierra 10.13.5 and the update has not solved my problem with slow editing in Photos with raw files. Photos app was 3.0 (3271.13.150) before and after the update. Apple Support told me they were aware of the problem many months ago. They keep saying they are working on a fix. It has been 8 months since this bug was introduced in Version 3.0 of Photos.
Now that Apple has announced MacOS Mojave, I suggest that everyone having the slow editing problem with Photos consider signing up for the public beta once it becomes available. In the event that Apple never fixes this in High Sierra, there is always a chance that Mojave will address the issue if enough people provide feedback.
Diving into it further, Retouch seems almost completely broken. It creates blocks over the photo and this happens on any photo I tried. At
I have noticed a general but significant slowdown in Photos under 10.13. I have reported the issue to Apple. I suggest you do the same.
Yep. Also tried that. Only thing that works is going back to Sierra 10.12 which uses Photos v2.
thanks for posting will try deleting dropbox and see if it fixes it.
Good luck with yours. I was on with tech support yesterday and I was told it should be a fix for jpegs - and my jpeg editing was fine. But, the RAW file editing is still dysfunctional.
Download the latest firmware, which came out about one week ago; supposedly that is the 'fix'.
I use this feature lot too and it is as you report.
Note the CPU go from nothing to 200 - 300% when editing and using retouch.
Sometimes the edits show after a while but after about 10 clicks it seems to not be able to continue for me.
I will log an issue.
After LONG wait I got through to Apple Support. It was suggested I repair Photos, repair "Home" and I have done both. The more I work with Photos the worse it gets - not just editing issues. Working in an album after awhile if I click on an image for full page view, the image comes up and immediately shifts to others, dances around, won't move to next or previous image.....I can't believe Apple is not aware of this boondoggle. I guess everyone should keep badgering them.
Yes, when computer is running off battery, it only uses the integrated graphics to save the power; when on power cord, it uses the discrete graphics. This supposed to make photos app run even faster, but I think there is something wrong with High Sierra's new photos app, it actually making everything slow.
High Sierra Photos Editing Issue
