High Sierra Photos Editing Issue

I've been patiently waiting for Apple to fix this issue with Photos. Nothing yet. For me, editing raw in particular will send the computer into paralysis. As another issue, this morning I'm editing jpegs and the adjustment settings are jumping and when I close the photo they're gone. Have to go back into the photo and fiddle with it to get the adjustments to stick. None of these issues occurred before High Sierra. The program was fast and very user friendly.

Apple Photos program has a major software issue with the program. They are trying to fix the issue, but their support cannot offer a time frame. Very frustrating. ****

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Thanks Robert. It's great to have absolute confirmation from your Apple tech that there is still a problem and they are working on a fix.

I don't think any of this matters.

I am told this is a widespread failure at the moment, that Apple has not yet been able to fix.

Photos has not been fixed for editing RAW images. Supposedly the last software update corrected jpeg editing.

Rob

You all might be interested to know that I actually tried editing a photo in my old iphoto and the retouch tool as well as all the other editing tools were brisk and snappy.

For me, RAW files could be edited just fine on Photos pre-High Sierra are now painful to work with. The slightest edit sends the computer into paralysis.

been through a lot of online support and conclusion is it’s the crap graphic card in my iMac 2011,

I couldn’t agree more,as you say cpu usage goes through the roof when editing a raw file particularly

Same issues of retouching very slowly, not working (try to retouch blemish, but nothing changes or it looks WORSE!) or not at all! As an old-school photographer (was born w/camera in hand, grew up shooting film, minored in photography 30 yrs ago) who prefers to do little to no editing (& Photos/iPhotos retouching was sufficient), the new retouching tool is unnacceptable! Going to have to learn to use the PhotoShop Elements 14 program I bought a yr ago to retouch portraits.

Are you just having problems with the retouch tool? Tho whole app is just running slow and choppy for me. I was working on a picture today and the whole thing just went black. The only way i could see it again was to exit out of the edit menu.

I started out just having a problem with editing a photo, retouching in particular was slow or stopped working and often had a granular look. But then the sudden quitting started and got worse and worse to the point now where I can’t use Photos on my 2014 iMac.

I should be talking to AppleCare later today...

I've had pretty good luck with photos in the past with just a few minor issues and it hardly ever crashed and enjoyed using it but now after upgrading to High Sierra it's a complete mess. Can't believe they released this.

I’ve just been working w/JPEG. I’ve only shot RAW + JPEG 2x (w/Canon 70D 1.5 yrs ago & last wk w/Canon 5DMIV), & both times, only the JPEGs display when I click on each photo to edit. I can see the icon in top right that shows there are RAW copies when all photos are displayed, but how to access RAW?

I bought PhotoShop Elements 14 last yr & tried to use it for the 1st time last night & couldn’t figure out how to load a RAW photo into it. (Transferred a PNG & worked on it, but gave up & used Photos to edit, which worked fine yesterday on JPEGs.)

I minored in photography almost 30 yrs ago (so I’m an old person w/tech), so usually get things right (or close) in camera so I don’t need to edit too much, so most of the time I’m OK using JPEG, esp bc I’m usually shooting our girls cheering/tumbling (superfast motion in very dim lighting) but would like to try RAW, esp to try to save the occasional photo when my camera settings are a little off (usually underexposed), & also bc I’m starting to shoot for clients.