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kbarre
kbarre
Inspiring
June 22, 2023
Question

Content-Aware Remove is using Smart Previews as its Source until I Disable Smart Previews

  • June 22, 2023
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I just went through and edited about 500 images with Smart Previews enabled, and all of the uses of Content-Aware Remove have sampled from the low resolution Smart Preview. Many of the problem areas are in combination with other masks, but even if I remove the mask and re-apply it, or refresh all masks, it does not fix the low-res Content-Aware Remove spot. I have confirmed that the anomaly still occurs, even if no other masks are applied.

 

The only solution I can find is to disable "Use Smart Previews instead of Originals for image editing," then individually select each Content-Aware Remove spot, and hit the "Refresh" button. I can find no way of selecting all healing spots and refreshing them in bulk. I can also find no way of making this tool work correctly while "Use Smart Previews instead of Originals for image editing" is enabled. I don't remember having this issue before LR Classic version 12.4.

 

Upon further testing, if I zoom in on the image while refreshing Content-Aware Remove, it WILL work correctly, even with "Use Smart Previews instead of Originals for image editing" enabled. If I zoom back out, it still samples from the Smart Preview.

 

This catalog is new, created in LR 12.4, with images processed from import as "Version 6 (Current)."

 

Running on a Mac M1 Max, and Ventura 13.3.1.

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johnrellis
johnrellis
Legend
June 23, 2023

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"I can find no way of selecting all healing spots and refreshing them in bulk."

 

There is no way, unfortunately.  The best you could do is to use the Any Filter plugin to find all photos containing a Content-Aware Remove healing:

 

johnrellis
johnrellis
Legend
June 23, 2023

"individually select each Content-Aware Remove spot, and hit the "Refresh" button."

 

Note that each time you click Refresh, the Content-Aware Remove tool will pick another source to clone over the spot -- so you could end up with results much different than your original editing.

 

"...all of the uses of Content-Aware Remove have sampled from the low resolution Smart Preview. ... I can also find no way of making this tool work correctly while "Use Smart Previews instead of Originals for image editing" is enabled."

 

Can you give details how you'd like Content-Aware Remove to behave when you've enabled Use Smart Previews Instead Of Originals For Image Editing? To me, that option is self-explanatory: When enabled, LR Develop will use an available smart preview instead of the original.

kbarre
kbarreAuthor
Inspiring
June 23, 2023

To be clear, I'm not using only Smart Previews  to edit. The setting "Use Smart Previews instead of Originals for image editing," only speeds the process of moving through a bunch of images quickly. LR is supposed to use the original high resolution files for exporting, but the new version isn't. It's using the smart preview for the tool, rather than accessing the data from the original raw file. 

johnrellis
johnrellis
Legend
June 23, 2023

Perhaps you could post full-resolution screenshots (not phone pics) showing what you mean, along with the precise LR steps used.

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