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November 10, 2024

P: Masking overlays do not always appear (Mac)

  • November 10, 2024
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Lightroom overlays do not appear.

The overlays do not appear and no matter how many settings I change, they do not respond at all.

37 replies

Participant
June 14, 2025

I'd like to add myself as yet another bugged user. @adobe you have to be kidding me you cant reproduce this issue. Honestly first I thought it was me. Its quite simple. Here is one way and there are literally a million other ways.

Ligthroom CC 8.3.1 (not classic) desktop on MacOS M1 Ultra/64GB Sequoia 15.5

  • Get picture of Cat
  • Add Subject Mask - Cat gets overlayed - Awesome!
  • Increase exposure. Cat gets brighter Yay! But now cat mask overlay is gone. Mask is still active and you can filldle with settings to see the cat change 
  • Now duplicate and invert - New mask gets added and overlay is on again. Fiddle with this one and overlay still seems to remain on
  • Exist masking 
  • Go back to picture of cat and select masking. Now masks are still active but overlay is gone 😞 😞 😞 

 

FWIW it looks like when you make some changes to masked area (eg change exposure) you temporarily disabke the overlay to show outcome of the action, but some how through various capricious paths that 'suppress overlay temporarily' becomes permanent

 

Fix soon please!

Participant
June 12, 2025

Tengo el problema de que no se visualiza las mascaras que realizo, si necesito salir de esa herramienta simplemente no se visualizan en rojo para poder modificar, es muy frustrante, porque quita mucho tiempo de trabajo. he intentado de todo, simplemente ya es un error del programa. 

 

tengo la versión Lightroom 8.3.1 actualizado hace 1 mes aproximadamente.

estoy ocupando un MAC M3 (macOS 15.5)

 

adjunto un video 

 

espero puedan ayudarme. 

 

saludos

kennedys33852900
Participant
June 9, 2025

I'd like to add myself as yet another user reporting the same error with masking. No improvements on resetting preferences, re-installing, etc.

 

Get it together, Adobe. This is not industry standard behaviour for professionals.

Participant
June 7, 2025

PS:  I am on windows 10.  This bug has been in since bfore to the current LR release, guessing several months.

Participant
June 7, 2025

I am trying to teach dodge/burn techniques and this is a real handicap, not to mention for my own work.  Is there a schedule for getting it fixed?  I am on the latest Lightroom Desktop release.

Participant
June 4, 2025

This seems to be a widespread issue. I have tried a clean install of LR, updating my intel Mac to 15.5 newest build, and doing the preference .plist file delete and not seems to help. If you duplicated the mask the overlay comes back and you can then delete the original. 

Known Participant
May 30, 2025

Is there any idea when this will b fixed in an update?

Participant
May 25, 2025

@Rikk Flohr: Inactive is there any update please?

andyh_73
Participating Frequently
May 21, 2025

Great news! Thanks.

Known Participant
May 19, 2025

I am going back to Lightroom 8.2 and wait for an update that solves this bug. Working without the Mask Overlay is not the right way, especially when you need a white on black overlay.