Metadata Panel ChangesĪdobe has also made some changes to the metadata panel. There are also updates to the slideshow module to improve performance. Previews should also now update faster the batch operations are performed. You can now continue to work while this carries on in the background. So for example, if you had previously tried to apply a preset to a set of images, you wouldn’t have been able to change the folder or catalogue session until the write operation was finished. The second big difference is that they have added some multitasking features to the Library. Metadata changes are still written when you change metadata settings, but now you get a progress update in the status bar (top left of the interface). In Lightroom 11, the you’re in the develop module, it only writes the changes when you change the image selection. This could result in dozens or possibly even hundreds of file writes when you edit an image. This is because previously, Lightroom would update the sidecar file every time you move a slider. One of the first things that people are often advised to do if they are having performance issues in Lightroom is to turn off the option that automatically writes changes to the sidecar XMP files. The first is the way Lightroom writes sidecar XMP files.

There are numerous under-the-hood improvements in Lightroom 11, but there are two in particular I want to draw your attention to.

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