Thursday, January 22, 2015

Adobe Moving to 64-Bit Only Version of Lightroom

Hat Tip: PetaPixel

Adobe tends to be the go to platform for digital image professionals.

The company recently announced that Adobe Lightroom 6 would no longer support 32-bit operating systems.  You'll need a 64-bit OS in order to use the software.

The company officially lists Mac OS 10.8 or higher and 64-bit versions Windows 7 or later as being supported.

(Windows did produce 64-but versions of Windows Vista.  That OS is not listed as being capable of running Lightroom 6.)

There are valid reasons to limit a graphics program like Lightroom to 64-bit operating systems.  64-bit operating systems are capable of accessing much larger amounts of RAM than their 32-bit counterparts.  This can greatly increase performance of memory intensive programs like Lightroom.

Adobe has made the announcement in advance of releasing Lightroom 6 in order to give users a chance to switch to a 64-bit OS.

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