Lightroom 2 question

[Dave C.]

I am currently running Lightroom 2 on a 27"imac with an intel core 2 duo 3.06ghz w 12gb of ram.

Is there a way to make it so that lightroom does not have to render my images when i load them? meaning when i open lightroom and start looking through my images(1:1) one at a time (pressing the right tor left arrow keys) it always says "rendering preview" and then i have to wait for lightroom to render the image. I want this to be instantaneous, no waiting for each image to render.

I hope this makes sense? If not please feel free to ask questions and i can hopefully describe it better.

Thanks!

[justin_ing]

do you mean to cache the previews? I never wait for each to finish loading, I just keep pressing through before the preview finishes loading

[OsmosisStudios]

Youre asking for something thats not possible.

You want the application to instantly show you a close-up view. Lightroom (and other image editors) purposefully dont do this so that they can show you real-time changes on the image as a whole. When you zoom in, it only renders the seen portion of the image, again to be able to show you any changes instantly.

If it applied it to the entire image at a time, you'd experience slow-downs and you'd have to wait for changes to take effect

[Dave C.]

I think I was mistaken in saying (1:1). I do not mean when I am zoomed in at all. just when I click on the picture from the thumbnail view to get to see the entire picture I want it to not have to render just to show me the picture. I understand the rendering when zoomed in, but when just viewing the picture normally is there a way to not make it render each picture and just show it to me instantly?

it seems like sometimes this works just fine, but other times when i haven't used lightroom in a few days i again have to wait for all of my pictures to render again!

thanks!