LRC version 15.3 Camera Raw 18.3 Windows 11 /w 32 gigs of ram Nvidia GPX 3060 /w 12 gigs of ram I have a directory of photos I previously completed edits on in LRC. A new destructive behavior occurred when I am in the develop module and I scroll through the photos. While scrolling I notice the photos start updating to highly saturated / cropped versions and it ruins the original edit. If I continue to scroll - LRC continues to apply these edits. Precautions I have already taken: - Verified that auto-sync is NOT enabled - Purged the Camera Raw Cache - Use Graphics Processor has been disabled - Optimized catalog since old edits are randomly mutating - Unchecked “Automatically write changes into XMP” - Deleted all files associated /w [Catalog Name] Previews.lrdata After trying all of the above I made sure I restarted lightroom. As I scroll through photos they just continue to be corrupted when they come into thumbnail view. I may have pinpointed the source of the issue. I had used Profile: “Adaptive profile” for all of the photos. I notice if I switch it off adaptive color to something like Profile “Adobe Color” scroll to the right & then back left the ones where I changed to Adobe Color, I believe, doesn’t have this bizarre behavior occur again. The strange part is when it makes this high saturation and white balance change it’s not just applying these tweaks, but also appears to be applying a crop as well. It seems like as it builds the preview thumbnails this awful edit is applied and then gets written to the catalog and completely changes my prior edits. I am afraid to view any other directories in fear it will spread across my thousands of images.

RobertoLAloi

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Adaptive Color AI Changes Previously Edited Photos Automatically

Forum|Forum|1 month ago
May 9, 2026
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LRC version 15.3
Camera Raw 18.3
Windows 11 /w 32 gigs of ram
Nvidia GPX 3060 /w 12 gigs of ram

I have a directory of photos I previously completed edits on in LRC.
A new destructive behavior occurred when I am in the develop module and I scroll through the photos. While scrolling I notice the photos start updating to highly saturated / cropped versions and it ruins the original edit. If I continue to scroll - LRC continues to apply these edits.

Precautions I have already taken:

- Verified that auto-sync is NOT enabled
- Purged the Camera Raw Cache
- Use Graphics Processor has been disabled
- Optimized catalog since old edits are randomly mutating
- Unchecked “Automatically write changes into XMP”
- Deleted all files associated /w [Catalog Name] Previews.lrdata

After trying all of the above I made sure I restarted lightroom.
As I scroll through photos they just continue to be corrupted when they come into thumbnail view.

I may have pinpointed the source of the issue. I had used Profile: “Adaptive profile” for all of the photos. I notice if I switch it off adaptive color to something like Profile “Adobe Color” scroll to the right & then back left the ones where I changed to Adobe Color, I believe, doesn’t have this bizarre behavior occur again.

The strange part is when it makes this high saturation and white balance change it’s not just applying these tweaks, but also appears to be applying a crop as well.

It seems like as it builds the preview thumbnails this awful edit is applied and then gets written to the catalog and completely changes my prior edits. I am afraid to view any other directories in fear it will spread across my thousands of images.

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drtonyb

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@JohanElzenga

I agree, that is also what it looks like to me.

Edit: The only problem I have with this is how is the AI update triggering just by moving through the Filmstrip? Really need more information.

JohanElzenga

Community Expert

It won’t be the AI update that is triggered by moving through the filmstrip. The update was already done. What you’ll see is that the previews (thumbnails) have not been re-rendered because they were ‘out of sight’ when the paste was done on a large selection. Lightroom does not update ‘out of sight’ previews and has never done that. This has nothing to do with AI. It happens with ‘normal’ edits too.

-- Johan W. Elzenga

JohanElzenga

Community Expert

This sounds like you (erroneously) pasted an edit onto all these images, which could actually have been quite some time ago. Lightroom Classic does not update previews that are not visible in the grid, so you see them being updated now that you go through the grid. The Adaptive profile may be part of what you pasted, but the Adapative profile itself will not do the other things you reported, like adding a crop.

-- Johan W. Elzenga

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drtonyb

Legend

@RobertoLAloi

Your screen shot doesn’t tell us very much.

Need to see the History panel, not Presets. Need to see the Edits and Masks, not the “An AI process is running...” message.

If possible, share a DNG with the Edits saved in the DNG so that others can test.

RobertoLAloiAuthor

Participant

My screenshot was meant to show that actions are occurring by just scrolling through the thumbnails on the develop module. This is a screenshot of my history.

You’ll have to forgive me for not knowing the exact information to share when posting bugs. This is the first time in years the software exhibited an issue.

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