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January 4, 2023

P: 32bit TIFFs are no longer treated as raw files

  • January 4, 2023
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Broken: LrC 12.1

Working: LrC 12.0.1

OS: Win11 22H2

GPU driver: Nvidia gameready 527.56 (disabling GPU acceleration does not resolve the issue)

 

32bit TIFF files (such as 3D renders, astro stacks, HDRs from third party tools, etc) are not being rendered correctly in Lightroom Classic 12.1. The bug is new in 12.1, 12.0.1 handles them correctly/as previous versions did.

 

Here's how 12.0.1 handles this file:

 

Here's the same file, with the same develop settings and export settings, from 12.1:

 

The highlights and shadows adjustments simply flatten the contrast of the image. Additionally, in 12.1 the white balance slider is now relative(-100 to +100) instead of absolute (showing a kelvin temp). As if 32bit TIFFs are being treated as non-raw/non-linear files or something like that?

 

Here's a sample TIFF: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WvqO09WhL3QtTVw4SEaCost6ChcwKJYX/view?usp=share_link

 

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Load any 32bit tiff, the sample file linked above will do
  2. Attempt to make some adjustments, particularly the highlights/shadows sliders
  3. Note that the result is not at all as expected. (also note the white balance slider is curiously not displaying a temp, but rather a relative value)
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JtheNinjaAuthor
Known Participant
February 14, 2023

Hi Rick! While I can confirm the issue is now fixed in Lightroom Classic, I wanted to make sure you and the team are aware there are other cases where the same file handling bug happens. The Camera Raw plugin in Photoshop still exhibits the same issue when parsing 32bit TIFFs, and the issue is also present when using Camera Raw to convert 32bit Photoshop documents to 8/16bit (as far as I can tell, this issue effectively breaks that feature. But admitedly I don't ever use that feature either😬)

 

If you open the test file in the original post, you'll find that LrC 12.2 and ACR 15.2 produce different results from it because LrC 12.2 correctly parses it as a linear/raw file, while ACR 15.2 does not.

Rikk Flohr_Photography
Community Manager
Community Manager
February 14, 2023

Greetings all,

 

Updates for Adobe Photography products have been released.  The February 2023  updates contain a fix for this issue. 

If you do not see the update in your Creative Cloud Application, you can refresh it by hitting [Ctrl/Cmd]+[Alt/Opt]+[ R ].

Note: It may take up to 24 hours for your update to be available in your Creative Cloud app.

 

Thank you for your patience.

Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org
Rikk Flohr_Photography
Community Manager
Community Manager
January 11, 2023

The team was able to reproduce with your files - thank you.  We've logged a bug. 

Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org
JtheNinjaAuthor
Known Participant
January 4, 2023

Additional detail I found with some more testing: if you convert a 32bit TIFF to DNG using LrC 12.0.1, the resulting DNG will no longer exhibit the issue, even once it is opened in 12.1, However, if you convert 32bit TIFF to DNG using LrC 12.1, the resulting DNG remains broken even once opened in LrC 12.0.1.