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Cam24880745sc47
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February 8, 2026

P: Copy & paste settings from a raw photo to a TIFF version of the same photo, the masks rotate 90 degrees clockwise.

  • February 8, 2026
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I start with an edited version (lightroom adjustments only) of a photo in lightroom. I make a copy of it and then click reset on the new copy. This copy is essentially no modifications at this point. I then edit that copy in photoshop. When I am done editing in PS, I save it. I then open that PS-modified version in lightroom and paste ALL settings I have copied from the original to this new TIFF version. I expect the changes to work but it looks wrong. I notice the REMOVED tool item masks are strange. It looks like the REMOVE masks in the version that I pasted to are 90 degrees rotated - clockwise. Basically, copy/paste of masks does not work from a raw file to a tiff version. It’s like PS messed up the orientation indicator or something and LR got confused?

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    johnrellis
    johnrellis
    Genius
    February 10, 2026

    Moderators, ​@Rikk Flohr_Photography, please move to Bugs. I posted a bug recipe above.

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      Cam24880745sc47Author
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      February 10, 2026

      It seems like it works perfectly except for that one indicator of when the photo is in portrait orientation. It must drive Adobe nuts that nobody can pinpoint/fix that bit of logic. The source code must be massively complex. 10 million lines - just Googled it! 😮

      johnrellis
      johnrellis
      Genius
      February 9, 2026

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      LR has long struggled copying position-dependent settings between photos with different orientations. While Adobe has fixed many instances of the general problem over the years, many have remained unfixed since LR was first introduced. In the past, the developers have sometimes declared the behavior “as-designed” and sometimes “bug”, and the previous threads about this are a mess -- I don’t know the official position of the current team.

       

      But the problem is easy to reproduce. To reproduce on LR 15.1.1 / Mac OS 26.2 (see the attached screen recording):

       

      1. Download and open this catalog:

      https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/bahmqen3gzogjfrqas9ee/copy-remove-bug.2026-02-08.zip?rlkey=ywibp6jglu7lklq83k48fqi70&dl=0

       

      It contains perspicuously named photos with all 8 of the possible orientations.

       

      2. Open the the photo “ab.jpg” in Develop and click on the Remove tool.  Set Tool Overlay: Always.  Observe there is a removal applied over the round window.

       

      3. In the filmstrip, select all the photos, do Sync Settings, and check just Remove.

       

      4. Observe in all the other photos that the removal appears somewhere else, not over the round window.

       

      Past threads about the general problem:

       

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        Cam24880745sc47Author
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        February 9, 2026

        Thanks. I guess it’s just another thing I won’t bother using any more. Seems to be the best way. ::)

        johnrellis
        johnrellis
        Genius
        February 9, 2026

        A workaround is to use the Copy Settings plugin.

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          Cam24880745sc47Author
          Known Participant
          February 8, 2026

          So it’s the items I removed with the remove tool. The masks or outlines for those are rotated so it removes the wrongs areas.

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