What about speed?

[cmo Profile]

I use a Windows 7/64 bit PC with a very fast i7 processor, 32GB Ram and a big SSD. But this software is incredibly slow. The Taskamanager tells me that it only uses a fraction of the power the hardware offers.

Why?

[cmo Profile]

Apart from that it looks promising

[cmo Profile]

Especially when I drag with the mouse to select an area the program behaves inertially.

But if I look into the details there is no reason:

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As I said, this is a VERY fast PC with lots of CPU power and more than enough RAM.

[eadams Profile]

Hi cmo,

I'll be interested to hear what the Admin has to say in reply to your question. I personally find that SPE is very fast. When making a selection SPE is looking for edges, which of course slows the selection process down. Have you compared SPE with other tools with an edge based selection technology?

[cmo Profile]

Well, I know Photoshop CS6 well... and Lightroom, Portrait Professional, Gimp, digikam and others, and I have a lot of knowledge about automatic image enhancement systems for newspapers and labs.

I just wonder why SPE doesnot simply grab all the CPU power it can get, it could be much faster. When I drag over a section of the image with a tool it moves very slowly and there is a lot of judder and motion lag.

And,just btw, it just crashed, and it seems there is no auto-save feature...

[cmo Profile]

And one more crash while scaling a background.

Come on, guys, this looks like a beta version.

[admin]

With the smart brush there are some aspects of the algorithm that are not parallisable, so depending on the picture it is not possible to use more than one CPU. When making selections it does have to do a fairly complex calculation for each pixel it visits. To speed things up, try using a smaller brush (in addition to holding down shift if you need to get into tricky areas).

N.B. It auto saves every minute or so, and will prompt you to restore the last version when you open it again.

Tony

[cmo Profile]

On this PC I already had things like ufraw, imagemagick and exiftool installed.

Could that interfere with SPE and make it slow or instable?

Which versions would be the right ones that should be installed?

[admin]

Hi,

I'm not sure what's going on, to be honest. It does sound like you are having a significantly different experience from the majority of our customers. I can see from your screen shot of the task manager leerlaufprozess is taking up a lot of CPU what ever that might be. If you shrink the size of the brush, is it responsive? Also have you installed the 64 bit version of the software, that makes a big difference if you use large images.

Tony

[cmo Profile]

"Leerlaufprozess" is the german word for "idle"

So, the computer is actually quite bored and wants more work...

I installed SPE again, now it works fast and did not crash by now. Strange.