P: Bleeding color with Healing Tool

Just did a test with LrC 9.3 cropping my test image to cut one of my black dots in half, its on the edge of the crop. I then spot healed it with 0 feather and it worked fine - no bleeding.

The bleeding problem with spot healing on the real image edge is new to LrC 9.3.

I think you will find that there are no extra pixels on the outside of an uncropped image.

I've reverted to 9.2 so can't confirm but I believe the problem was only on edges.  It seemed to me that the problem in 9.3 is extra pixels outside the uncropped image -- the bleeding is the same bleeding you see if try to heal a spot on the edge of a cropped image

Yes.

Are you only encountering this problem on the edges of the image?

While there may be work-arounds when working on new edits in 9.3, beware that previously edited pictures with healing on edges are also damaged.  I reverted to 9.2 rather than deal with trying to re-edit the many, many pictures ruined by bleeding.  Can someone from Adobe please address when we can expect a fix for this so we can all enjoy the benefits of 9.3?  Thanks.  

From the comments on this subject, it seems the problem only occurs around the edges of the image. If true, then use of the tool in the body of the image (i.e. away from the edge) does not manifest the issue. Is that what you folks are experiencing?

Considering this is a payed subscription, you should expect to rely on it. I'm losing lots of time in my professional work by finding a way around this problem. Please fix the problem asap!

A lot of 'suck and see', but sadly, we shouldn't have to do this. I hope the problem gets fixed very soon.

It also helps if you use a larger Size setting and start with the center pin (+) right on the edge of the image when painting the area to be healed. Then move the sample area around and overlap it into the destination area. Placing a large amount of the Sot Removal tool outside the image border along with overlapping the sample area really helps.

Here's the best I could do using a smaller spot size with very little of it placed outside the image border.

I have found a way around this problem for spot healing on the edge of an image frame. It doesn't always work, so you will need to try for yourself on images that you might need fixed before the bug itself is fixed.

Here is an image taken on a photographic holiday to Greece in 2007 just before Lightroom 1.0 was released.



There were some dust spots and I also wanted to remove the protruding roof edges on the right side to the image. Up until LrC 9.3, this image looked just fine with the spot healing I had done, but now, this bug has turned the healed roof edges into messy smudges.



I have found that moving the sample area to the edge improves the healing. If you go too far, the hard edge creeps into the image.



But moving the sample area back from the edge a bit restores the healing to a pre-LrC 9.3 result.





Zooming in and using the Visualize Spots also helps to get it right. Now my image looks good again, just as it did before LrC 9.3 messed it up.



As I mentioned, this doesn't always work, but it might be worth trying for images you need fixed now. I also found that deleting the original spot healing and redoing it helped a little bit too.