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alanterra
Inspiring
December 8, 2016

P: Tone curve still broken in

  • December 8, 2016
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The bug that I reported here has not been squashed in the latest Lightroom.

The problem is hysteresis in the response of points on the tone curve control when following mouse movements.

If you drag a point (say, the white point) in the Tone Curve and move it back and forth, after a few drags you will not be able to put the point back in the upper right corner of the response panel.

The underlying cause is that (a) the point does not move directly with the cursor (LR hides the cursor so you can't see this, but when you let go of the mouse button you will see that the cursor does not align with the point, (b) as you drag, the relationship between the cursor position and the point changes, when the point hits the right edge of the box and the cursor continues to the right, then when you move the cursor back to the left it does not "pick up" the point at the same location that it "left" the point, and (c) the (invisible) cursor is limited by Mac OS to stay on the screen.

The work-around (which is not perfect), is to make your Lightroom window smaller so that there is more space beyond the right edge of the window, so the hysteresis effect doesn't show up as quickly. If you have 2 screens, you can move the Lightroom window to the left screen, which effectively solves this problem.

I assume that this problem occurs for all four edges of the Tone Panel, but because the Tone Panel is on the right hand side of the Lightroom window, the effect is seen mostly when trying to move a point on the tone curve to the right hand side of the panel.

If this is not clear, let me know, and I'll see if I can post a video.

[Edit -- I just confirmed this bug for the top edge of the Tone Curve as well.]

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95 replies

henriko72124252
Inspiring
April 12, 2017
Works for me now finally with LR 2015.10 and macOS 10.12.4. Thanks for fixing. It's been a long wait.
Participant
April 12, 2017
Mine still isn't working
Participant
April 12, 2017
Not sure what I'm doing wrong, but everything is up to date and the tone curve still isn't working... iMac with sierra. Lightroom CC
alanterra
alanterraAuthor
Inspiring
April 12, 2017
Thanks, Rikk and team, for fixing this annoying bug.
Earth Oliver
Legend
April 11, 2017
Buttery Smooth now! 

Think you all could bring the Curve tool into the 21st Century next? We could really use a Lum curve as well as Relative functions like those found in DaVinci and Fresh Curves. A resizable pop-out would also be a dream as some of us would really like to be able to dial in the curve with much greater precision.
Participating Frequently
April 11, 2017
Now Curve Tone works fine... but another issue... with camera raw.... when you try to edit a file in Photoshop from LR you get a warning about update camera raw to 9.10 but it is already updated. 
Mac Sierra LR 2015.10 Camera Raw 9.10
Rikk Flohr_Photography
Community Manager
April 11, 2017
This issue should be fixed in Lightroom CC2015.10/6.10.  Please update your system and let us know if you have any additional issues. 

Additional information on this update can be found here: http://blogs.adobe.com/lightroomjournal/2017/04/lightroom-cc-2015-10-now-available.html
Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org
Inspiring
March 29, 2017
Dealing with similar Issue.
Impossible to move Lightroom curve points smoothly. 
Really hard to use, almost impossible.
Any solution? 

Lightroom CC 2015 8
Mac OS Sierra 10.12
Inspiring
March 29, 2017
Having the same problem.
My lightroom curve reacts like crazy when moving the points. Imposible to use.
Please solve this issue asp.
Thanks!
Rikk Flohr_Photography
Community Manager
March 27, 2017
We have identified and are currently testing an additional fix for the Tone Curve issues. We hope to deploy this shortly. 
Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org