P: (mac/win) Cropping panoramas with two monitors - white space is overlaid on secondary display
- August 30, 2023
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When cropping an HDR Panorama using two displays, the full image is not shown correctly in my secondary display. My primary display will show the full panorama, but when I try to crop it the secondary display erratically shows white space where there should be imagery. If I make crops, the secondary display will update (slowly), but continue to show white space. This white space seems to mimic the boundary of the original panorama.
I recently upgraded from a 2019 iMac to a 2023 M2 Max Studio with 96gb ram. The problem used to occur on my iMac and I was hoping that the new powerful machine would make a difference. It didn't. I'm using MacOS Ventura 13.5 and LR 12.5. But this issue also occured on my 2019 iMac, using different OS and different LR Classic versions.
I have two external monitors. The one I'm using with LR is a 4k display. The other monitor I use is an old Apple Thunderboldt display (2560 x 1440). I tried using that as my LR secondary display, but the issue persists, albeit not as regularly.
This issue doesn't seem to occur while cropping single raw images. The images I'm working with are panoramas created from bracketed raw files, using LR's "Photomerge - HDR Panorama" tool.
The "white space" shown, seems to mimic the original extent of the panorama, and place it arbitrarly over the image shown in the secondary display, despite how I crop it. See my attached screenshots.
Sometimes disabling/enabling the secondary display seems to temporarily fix this (clicking on the "2" monitor button in primary display, above the filmstrip at the bottom).
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