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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

Inspiring
March 24, 2017
Same problem here. Mac Os 10.12.3 and Lightroom 2015.9.

Hope to solve this problem soon, can't edit photos!
Inspiring
March 15, 2017
LR CC 2015.9 - for me there is no change in tone curve behave. Still, can't adjust smoothly moving point right or up.
Participating Frequently
March 9, 2017
2015.9 makes it usable for me, but still quite janky. 
Inspiring
March 9, 2017
Updated to 2015.09. It gets better, but problem still occurring when trying to move point on curve to right. And sensitivity could be better (cursor is "jumping" when moving). All this even after restarting.
Participating Frequently
March 8, 2017
Lucky guy..., no with my iMac... with Sierra!!!!!!!
karlisk51536391
Participant
March 8, 2017
yep, at my system (mac pro) they work great now!
Participating Frequently
March 8, 2017
Is It...?
karlisk51536391
Participant
March 8, 2017
Finally the curves are working now!!!
Participating Frequently
March 8, 2017
Still there the bug.... 
Participant
March 8, 2017
2015.9 and the issue is still there...