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sarat44272521
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June 1, 2023

P:Editing original JPEG file in Photoshop messes up rotation of edits

  • June 1, 2023
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This bug is driving me crazy. Upgraded to the newest lightroom today (from 8.4) expecting this would be fixed by now. I'm doing a lot of product photography, sometimes retouching in lightroom isn't enough so I switch to editing the original JPEG file. When saving the image and returning to lightroom the aspet ratio of the image is all wrong and all the edits are upside down (I would like to keep the lightroom edits). This only happens with portrait photos, not landscape. I have deleted my user profile settings in Photoshop as suggested somewhere, tried the "Automatically write changes to XMP" but nothing is working. Please help..

 

on a Mac, Monterey 12.6.1, Lightroom 12.3, Photoshop 24.5

 

Video of the workflow: https://www.dropbox.com/s/mll45wxvhj0lx7n/Aspect%20ration%20rotation%20bug.mov?dl=0

 

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Rikk Flohr_Photography
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Rikk Flohr_PhotographyCommunity Manager
June 5, 2023

Setting status. 

Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org
    johnrellis
    johnrellis
    Legend
    June 4, 2023

    When I tried this initially, I saw the change in aspect ratio, both in PS and back in LR after editing in PS.  But after updating PS to the latest version (24.5.0) I don't see the change in aspect ratio, just the change in location of the brush strokes.

    johnrellis
    johnrellis
    Legend
    June 4, 2023

    The problem with the location of the brush strokes is a manifestation of a very old bug with photo orientation and local adjustments that Adobe has never completely fixed.  

     

    To work around the problem, export a copy of the portrait photos back into the catalog with these export options:

     

    Then work with those copies, not the originals.

     

    To reproduce the bug:

     

    1. Import the attached photo.

     

    2.  Add some Brush strokes on identifiable features:

     

    3. Do Photo > Edit In > Edit In Photoshop 2023 > Edit Original.

     

    4. In PS, make a Levels adjustment (just so you can validate which copy you're working with) and save the photo.

     

    5. In LR, observe that the Brush strokes are now rotated 90 degrees:

     

    The original sin is an architectural design flaw: LR represents the coordinates of local adjustments relative to the coordinates of the underlying pixels, rather than coordinates of their visual appearance after the internal orientation of the photo has been applied. 

     

    LR could fix all manifestations of this bug by representing coordinates internally in visual coordinates relative to the visual appearance (which would have been the better implementation design); or it can identify all the numerous places that local adjustments are copied from photo to photo and translate the coordinates based on the orientations of the source and destination photos.

     

    johnrellis
    johnrellis
    Legend
    June 4, 2023

    @Rikk Flohr: Photography, see the recipe above and please move to Bugs.

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