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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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Known Participant
February 13, 2019
Me too mostly black with a few squares of detail, on both my Macs using Fuji X-T3.

TheDigitalDog
Inspiring
February 13, 2019
ARW's on a 2016 MacBook Pro Retina, no issues. It's your hardware I'm suspecting and this is again, what Adobe engineers are suspecting. 
I tried ARWs from the camera and ARWs converted to DNG on import. Both processed without any issues. 
Author “Color Management for Photographers" & "Photoshop CC Color Management/pluralsight"
TheDigitalDog
Inspiring
February 13, 2019
I've had no such issues with my ARWs. Either directly from my Sony or ARWs converted upon import to DNG. Nor CR2s. What this appears to be is a hardware issue with older hardware (according to Eric Chen of Adobe). I don't believe it is an OS or file issue as again, I can't replicate this issue on a 2016 MacBook Pro Retina with the latest version of the OS with either of these raws. 
As such, what I recommend for those with issue would be specific details on hardware to provide to Adobe. 
Author “Color Management for Photographers" & "Photoshop CC Color Management/pluralsight"
Participating Frequently
February 13, 2019
Yes, there does indeed appear to be a hardware environmental component, Simon, even among machines that are running a rev of MacOS that supports the coreML framework.

I initially tested with a five-year-old MacBook Air, and was unable to process any Fuji X-Trans files successfully.  (I tried files from an XT-1, an XT-2, and an XT-3, as well as the sample X-Pro1 file provided by Adobe.)  I had no difficulty running the Enhanced Details tool on that machine against a Nikon .NEF file produced by a D800E.

This morning, I bit the bullet and installed LR 8.2 on my 2013 Mac Pro.  All six of my test files were successfully demosaiced with Enhanced Details.

The beefier graphics hardware on the Mac Pro made a huge difference in processing time, by the way: on the MacBook Air, they were taking several minutes to process, on the Mac Pro between 10 and 20 seconds.
Adobe Employee
February 13, 2019
This is likely due to older hardware that is unsupported by macOS machine learning frame work, aka coreML It is not too surprising since CoreML is pretty new.
Theresa J
Community Expert
Community Expert
February 13, 2019


The new Lightroom Enhance feature is creating these wonderfully, colorful gridded images. I suspect this is an issue with my GPU. I have a Mid 2010 Mac Pro with an upgraded NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 4096 MB graphics card. This happens with every Fuji raw image I process. I successfully processed one iPhone Lr dng image with enhance, although I couldn't see any detail improvements in it.

Rikk Flohr_Photography
Community Manager
Community Manager
February 13, 2019
Our Issue tracking database links to this thread and populates the counts for our engineering staff.

For those of you who are experiencing this issue, help us out by hitting the [Me Too] button at the top of this page so we can get a better idea of the impact on this issue. 

Thanks!
Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org
99jon
Genius
February 13, 2019
Yes, best to wait for a fix. Some others seem to be having similar problems.
ondrejb47127146
Inspiring
February 13, 2019
ARW file from Sony A7R3 converted to DNG in LR 8.1. Enhanced original ARW files are with the same bad results as DNG.
All drivers, updates and Windows are new. I wait for next bug-fix and try it again, its not so important for me, but useful sometimes 🙂
99jon
Genius
February 13, 2019

Yes something wrong there.  Yet I have exactly the same Windows build as you and this feature is working OK for me. What was the original raw file type before conversion to DNG?