CPU upgrade for PL8 on Windows

[stuck (Canon, PL7+FP7+VP3 on Win 10 + GTX 1050ti)]

@nik

100’s of tiny specs of dust suddenly appeared after export,

That could be a consequence of the fact that PL does not show the fully sharpened image at zoom levels <75%. This is a very long standing source of constant gripes, e.g. this topic started in 2018:

Make sharpening visible at less than 75% zoom

If this has already been brought up recently, I apologize. I realize that the ability to view the effects of of the Lens Sharpness and Unsharp Mask panels only when zoomed to 75% and above was intended to speed up processing, but just about every other post processing program I’m familiar with seems to apply sharpening at most, if not all, zoom levels. It can be very inconvenient when trying to view the effects of sharpening on the entire image. I think its time that this is addressed. Mark

There are many other topics about this feature of PL.

The new loupe in PL8 at least allows you to view part of the sharpened image at a high zoom level.

@nik

click away over the specs as if i was playing starcraft or some other ‘click heavy’ game for 10 minutes, and everything slowed down a whole lot

That’s another known issue, repeatedly using the retouch tool making everything grind, e.g. this post by @Joanna:

Retouch Tool Mangled My Photos

Hi there Thomas Just to let you know, you are definitely not on your own with this problem. We have an important image to restore, including white marks when it got dragged over a dirty floor. We spent around an hour “removing” 469 of those marks and, all of a sudden, we got exactly the same thing as you and the image refused to show in the Ian editing window. This is a RAW file that has had adjustments made to make it B&W along with a couple of geometry adjustments. I am using PL7.3, becaus…