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May 31, 2024
Question

Grain Setting Mysteriously Moves By Itself

  • May 31, 2024
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When I'm not looking at my computer, the settings for grain readjust themselves. Always to the same point. Grain 56, the other two to 38 and 39. I don't touch anything. I'm sleeping, I'm eating dinner, then I'll go to do some work and when I open up a picture, it looks like a mess. I used to panic; now I just scroll down the grain section and always find that phantoms have increased the grain drastically, and always to the same point. Weird, huh? Any ideas?

 

I'm running Lightroom Classic 13.3 on an iMac loaded with Sonoma 14.5.

 

Many thanks, in advance.

4 replies

ksuttle
Participant
July 3, 2025

This exact thing is happening to me.  Did you find a cause?  

 

I'm at MacOS Sequoia 15.5 & Lightroom Classic 14.4.

johnrellis
Legend
May 31, 2024

On the mangled photos, look in Develop's History panel -- do you see an unintended Grain Amount step? Or perhaps an unintended application of a preset or Paste Settings?

paul6001Author
Known Participant
May 31, 2024

No syncing going on. The mystery lies elsewhere.

johnrellis
Legend
May 31, 2024

Are you syncing those photos with the LR Cloud? Perhaps a bad symptom of the new sync engine.