Preview: Reapplying settings to photos & hogging loads of sys.resources...

I've got two major issues with Preview:
1) Whenever a lot of photos are open (say 100), it absolutely eats RAM and thus everything becomes very slow to respond - is there a fix for this or do I have to open less photos at a time?
2) I do a lot of editing of images in Preview because I find it nice and easy to quickly adjust a bit of contrast / colour / cropping for large amounts of photos... I've no idea why but there seems to be a tendancy of Preview to reapply the changes I've made when I save. An example is that say I boost contrast by 25% on a couple of images and then save them, when I open them again they will appear to have had their contrast boosted by 50% - this sometimes happens even without saving - whilst I'm working editing a few images, I'll return to one to find that all of the settings I've made have been applied again on the same image.....
Anybody got any ideas as to what's going on?
Thank you,
Leo
*This question relates to Preview 4.1, this is the most relevant forum I could find. I apologise if there was somewhere better to post.

This is the iPhoto forum. Your best bet is to post here:
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1225
Some comments, however:
1) Whenever a lot of photos are open (say 100), it absolutely eats RAM and thus everything becomes very slow to respond - is there a fix for this or do I have to open less photos at a time?
There is no solution for this. No app can have 100 images open at a time without a slowdown. You would need an awful lot of RAM to prevent this.
As for your other query:
Preview is not a Photo Editor, it’s an image viewer. What capability it has is geared towards a quick and dirty fix. You’ll get better results using an n app geared for the job.
Regards
TD

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