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mark233495990o4g
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June 30, 2024

P: Heal tool overlay not showing - departure from 13.2

  • June 30, 2024
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The Heal overlay used to work perfectly in previous versions of Lightroom Classic for Windows. You just pushed "H" to hide or unhide. Now, in 13.4 the closest thing is to use "Auto", but it shows you all the heal spots and you can't do a heal that is overlapping a place that has already been healed, unless you change to "Never", but then you can't see the overlay that shows you where you are sampling from. I hope this makes sense.

 

Is this a bug, or is lightroom going backwards?

 

It's driving me bonkers! 

 

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    johnrellis
    johnrellis
    Genius
    July 8, 2024

    A workaround: Just click with the Clone or Heal tool, instead of Ctrl/Cmd clicking. Then press H to switch Tool Overlay to Auto, and the source circle will appear, which you can then drag around.

     

    If you're doing many of these, it's certainly more tedious, for sure.

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    drtonyb
    Legend
    July 8, 2024

    This bug is only when the Tool Overlay is set to Never; the source overlay works correctly in the other three modes. The bug is certainly annoying, but it doesn't make LrC unusable.

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    mark233495990o4gAuthor
    Participating Frequently
    July 8, 2024

    I didn't even notice they moved the thread until your reply in the forum. Maybe they should send a notification email stating a person's thread got moved. but anyways! I hope they can fix the bug/issue asap as it makes Lightroom very unusable.

      johnrellis
      johnrellis
      Genius
      July 8, 2024

      "Maybe Adobe can respond?"

       

      Adobe has responded by moving the bug report into the Bugs section, which is reserved for confirmed bugs and likely bugs. At this point, unless they request more information, we won't hear back from them until the bug is fixed, at which point they'll update this thread. Adobe rarely indicates when a bug might be fixed.

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      mark233495990o4gAuthor
      Participating Frequently
      July 8, 2024

      Thank you for the videos! Maybe Adobe can respond? or does Adobe not respond to their customers? This is my first time in the Adobe forums.

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      drtonyb
      Legend
      July 1, 2024

      @mark233495990o4g 

       

      You are correct. Tried LrC 12.5.1 Heal/Clone with all pins hidden. Press Ctrl, then click and drag shows the circle around the sample area as the mouse is moved with an arrow pointing back to the spot being healed/cloned.

       

      I agree that this is a regressive behaviour (bug) in LrC 13.4 and should be fixed by the Adobe team.

       

        johnrellis
        johnrellis
        Genius
        July 4, 2024

        With LR 13.3 and later, when using the Heal or Clone mode with Tool Overlay: Never, Ctrl-clicking a spot doesn't show the heal/clone source with a circle and an arrow pointing to the target spot. With LR 13.2 and earlier, you'd see the source spot as a circle with an arrow to the target spot.

         

        This functionality is described in the Help:

        https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/help/healing-tool.html

         

        See the attached screen recordings for correct operation in LR 13.2 and incorrect operation in 13.3 and 13.4.

         

          johnrellis
          johnrellis
          Genius
          July 4, 2024

          @Rikk Flohr: Photography, @Rick Spaulding -, please consider moving to Bugs -- see my previous post.

            GoldingD
            GoldingD
            Legend
            June 30, 2024

            Can you create and post in a reply a video capture of your issue.

             

             

             

            JohanElzenga
            Community Expert
            JohanElzengaCommunity Expert
            Community Expert
            June 30, 2024

            Neither. I don't think anything has changed. You can still hide the overlay using the H key to make overlapping heals possible. If that does not work for you, then perhaps you should reset the preferences (https://www.lightroomqueen.com/how-do-i-reset-lightrooms-preferences/). I also don't think you remember this correctly. It was always necessary to hide the overlay completely to do this, so to set it to 'never'. For this reason I have set it to never as my default.

             

            -- Johan W. Elzenga
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            mark233495990o4gAuthor
            Participating Frequently
            June 30, 2024

            I reverted back to v12 just to be sure i was remembering it correctly.  And I was. v13 is different, and not intuitive. Adobe needs to change it back.

            JohanElzenga
            Community Expert
            JohanElzengaCommunity Expert
            Community Expert
            June 30, 2024

            Maybe it is different between 12.x and 13.0, I'm not sure about that. What I do know is that they changed the interface. That interface change was in the 13.2 to 13.3 update. The overlay settings were at the bottom of the image, now they are inside the Remove panel. You suggested it was different in 13.4, so I compared it with 13.3 and found no difference at all. 

             

            -- Johan W. Elzenga
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