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February 12, 2019

P: Enhance Details causes cut out colored squares

  • February 12, 2019
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I was trying out the new Enhance Details function on Lightroom 8.2, and it is working well on some images, but on other images, it creates the new file, but totally messes it up by cutting out a square in one part of the image, and then other green, blue and magenta squares of the same size are placed randomly in other parts of the image.

This doesn't happen on all files (and it isn't consistent as to which files...two shots taken minutes apart with the same camera and lens, and one it won't process correctly, but the other it will.  If it messes up on a file, it always messes up in the same way if you try again. It doesn't matter whether GPU processing is enabled or not.


Example showing the effect: http://www.jordansteele.com/2019/enhanced.jpg

System Info:


Lightroom Classic version: 8.2 [ 1204643 ]
License: Creative Cloud
Language setting: en
Operating system: Windows 10 - Business Edition
Version: 10.0.17763
Application architecture: x64
System architecture: x64
Logical processor count: 8
Processor speed: 4.0 GHz
Built-in memory: 32726.0 MB
Real memory available to Lightroom: 32726.0 MB
Real memory used by Lightroom: 824.8 MB (2.5%)
Virtual memory used by Lightroom: 1044.2 MB
GDI objects count: 765
USER objects count: 2833
Process handles count: 1906
Memory cache size: 117.5MB
Internal Camera Raw version: 11.2 [ 134 ]
Maximum thread count used by Camera Raw: 5
Camera Raw SIMD optimization: SSE2,AVX,AVX2
Camera Raw virtual memory: 158MB / 16363MB (0%)
Camera Raw real memory: 158MB / 32726MB (0%)
System DPI setting: 96 DPI
Desktop composition enabled: Yes
Displays: 1) 2560x1440, 2) 1920x1200
Input types: Multitouch: No, Integrated touch: No, Integrated pen: No, External touch: No, External pen: No, Keyboard: No

Graphics Processor Info:
DirectX: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 (25.21.14.1881)

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Rikk Flohr_Photography
Community Manager
Community Manager
February 12, 2019
Additionally, does Adobe Camera Raw exhibit the same artifacts as Lightroom on the same file?
Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org
TheDigitalDog
Inspiring
February 12, 2019
Enhanced Detail will range for doing absolutely nothing visually to producing in best case (according to internal Adobe testing with Siemens Star resolution charts) 30% increase of resolution (NOT increase of pixels!). There is of course a before and after preview and the ideal zoom ratio to examine whether it's worthwhile converting the data to a linear DNG. Bottom line is: YMMV.

As to the issue you reported, can you try with GPU Prefs off?
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