- Before we get started on the actual work
that we're going to perform today in Lightroom,
sometimes, what I'm going to teach you
is a little bit outside of the normal realm
of things that we consider possible in Lightroom.
And what that means is sometimes we push the program
to its limits when it comes to processing power.
So what I'm going to do in this chapter
is teach you a couple of the right sweet settings
in our preferences to make the program run even faster.
And I'm going to touch on three of those
in the following videos.
The first thing I want to do is go to the Lightroom menu
and I want to choose Preferences from the dropdown.
At that point, we need to choose Performance from the pane.
And then right down here in our Camera Raw Cache Settings,
you can see that the maximum size
of the cache is at 10 gigabytes.
So what the cache is,
is it's kind of like the short-term memory of our Lightroom.
And any image that you've worked on recently
is going to be stored in this cache area.
So what I like to do is I like to increase the size
of this cache from 10 to 30 gigabytes.
And then while you're in here,
you can purge your cache if you'd like,
which is going to allow you to have
a little bit more memory freed up
so that Lightroom runs faster.