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June 29, 2023

P: Retouch circle automatically becomes smaller on images with Transform Adjustments

  • June 29, 2023
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Since I have updated to Lightroom Classic 12.4, the retouch circle automatically becomes smaller every time I use it in the same picture. For example, I put the width of the circle on 20 and use it, then I go to another spot in the picture to use the same tool and automatically LR has changed the width to 19. Then to 18, 17, 16 and so on. Anyone having the same problem? This looks like a bug?

Thank you for any comments.

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Participant
June 18, 2024

I'm on the Lightroom Classic V13.3.1 and whenever I use the healing brush tool on my photo (with every click), the brush size automatically keeps shrinking (e.g. I started off with brush size 8, and it goes down by 2 notches with every healing click). It's annoying the heck out of me, and I'm not sure if it's an issue for others too. 

 

How can I fix this issue or is it a bug? 

Legend
June 18, 2024

It's a known bug. Hopefully fixed in a future update.

Participant
June 17, 2024

With the 13.3.1 update on macOS Monterey (12.7.5) , the "remove tool" marker shrinks every time the image is clicked to remove a thing. Sometimes the mask itself is shrunk automatically, sometimes the mask obeys the marker radius..

 

Expected behavior: the mask does not shrink in this usage scenario (as it used to).

johnrellis
Legend
June 19, 2024

Moderators, @Rikk Flohr: Photography@Rick Spaulding -, please merge with this bug:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/camera-raw-bugs/p-retouch-circle-automatically-becomes-smaller-on-images-with-transform-adjustments/idi-p/13902283

 

Though the title mentions Transform, many recent reports of the issue occurring without Transform being applied have been merged into that thread.

JohanElzenga
Community Expert
Community Expert
June 7, 2024

I believe this is a new bug, not the same bug that made the circle smaller after each stroke. That is why this is not related to transform.

 

-- Johan W. Elzenga
Participant
June 7, 2024

Had this problem for years but has become worse with most recent update (v13.3.1). Now the jump is greater each click. Very inconvenient as I use this tool everyday. Bug occurs regardless of Lens correction or Transform tools.

Known Participant
June 6, 2024

It happens for me on some images but I never use Lens Correction or Transform.

Participant
May 31, 2024

Hello,

 

I downloaded the latest lightroom and the brush tool is not functioning properly. I thought it was my mouse, bought a new mouse. It's not the mouse. It's just auto scrolling to lowest size possible even as I'm applying it to a photo. Any help? I already reset the lightroom preferences.

 

johnrellis
Legend
May 31, 2024

It's an old bug, first reported a year ago but not fixed yet. It's reported to happen more often on images on which Transform has been used or a lens profile applied.

LarryLMMMTT
Participating Frequently
May 26, 2024

Since upgrading to 13.3 the healing, remove and clone brushes don't work right. Each time I use the brush, it decreases in size. I set it to 18, click once, it's at 12; click again, it's at 8; again, 5, 3, 2, 1. It also happens with the new generative AI. Hopefully, this is a bug and not a "feature," as it is not a feature I appreciate. Tried restarting Lr and the computer, but with no effect.

davidh71320214
Participant
May 24, 2024

While using the new Ai remove brush in normal spot removal mode not generative fill with each click of the brush to remove a spot the brush gets smaller.

Lightroom Classic 13.3 release

Windows 11 X64

 

Participant
May 23, 2024

Just updated LrC to version 13.3, and got this annoying bug (new to me).

It occurs also on un-transformed and no-lens-corrected images.
It does not happen if make a shape by moving the mouse, only when doing a one click.

EXTREMELY frustrating, as I have a bunch of old slide scans to clean the dust off.

Michael W Jones
Participant
May 23, 2024

Same experience here, with the spot healing tool.

 

Using: LrC 13.3, MacOS 14.5, M2 

 

This is brand new to me, with v13.3. Never experienced it before the recent update.

 

I'm in the midst of archiving hundreds of old '90s film prints: scan, crop, basic edit, clean, sync with Cloud.

So there's a lot of spot-cleaning to be done (normally this is a tool I use only sparingly for regular photography, but it's required multiple times per image for this project) - and, as film scans (JPEG) are the source, I'm not using lens profiles or transform tools (which this bug has been associated with).


The behaviour is not consistent - on some images, the spot circle will remain the same size, on others it will decrement in size with each application.

One thing to note (may not be relevant), but I did notice that after the LrC 13.3 / Lr 9.3 update that my entire film-scan archive (800+ images) resynched with the Cloud - i.e. not just the latest batch I'd dragged over to the synched Collection within LrC, but everything was (re-)updated.

 

I realise this is a known issue, but my experience doesn't involve lens profiles / transform tools.