Lightroom mask ongoing issue

Question

This has been an issue since I started using Lightroom 6-7 years ago and never really thought about if there is a way to disable this.

But when transfering settings to each image, why does lightroom more often than not, rotate masks to the improper positions, making me have to adjust them almost every single photo? The photos are from the same set and are not wildly different, so there is zero need to constantly rotate them out of place.

Exact same lighting, same background, only different poses with people.

Very often times even if it's nearly identicaly, but just minor differences like looking a different direction, or eyes open vs eyes close.......it will still rotate the mask out of position. It seems to LOVE slowly but surely rotating masks that are vertical, to always point from corner to corner instead or sometimes horizontal, completely off from where it needed to be or where it was, when copying it to multiple photos. Can literally see the progression if I go to each next photo as it rotates out of position more and more, or sometimes rotates fully off right away and all the rest are in that new wrong position.

So how do I disable this? Because it most often wastes time fixing it, than actually getting it right and being a convenience. It's always been an inconvenience since the day I started using this.

If I want to move or rotate the mask, I should be the one to do it, not have it automatically keep messing it up and wasting my time.

If it goes from a vertical to a horizontal image, I totally can understand that it would want to try flip it sideways, and if I need to fix it I'll fix it, and then every single other horizontal image afterwards, SHOULD NEVER BE MOVED until I change it.

Thai5C65 · Accepted Answer

Oh gosh, ok, since I was specifically focusing on looking for the issue to export. It dawned on me, I think I realize what might be causing the issue and it might be on my end during the photoshoot. Because when I was copying settings to each photo, I just noticed that it happens around when my camera was tilted slightly or eventually off more to one side since I shoot hand held, which now makes sense because it is trying to stay with the person when copying to the next set of photos with the camera not being at the same rotation. It stood out after going through a set it was fine and was thinking ok, you start working now when I finally say something? When I had it balanced in doors and another set in the middle of the desert sun so was moving more, the masks kept getting off track.

So will have to specifcally pay attention to it now my next shoot and see if that is still the case.

johnrellis · Answer

We'll need a lot more details to troubleshoot this and file a bug report if necessary. Rather than tediously play twenty questions, please share two photos exhibiting the problem, a source photo with a mask and a target photo to which the mask doesn't copy correctly:

1. Please do the LR menu command Help > System Info and copy/paste the entire contents here so we can see exactly which versions of hardware and software LR thinks you're running and important LR options that are set.

2 Select the two photos.

3. Do File > Export As Catalog, choosing the options Export Selected Photos Only and Export Negative Files.

4. Zip up the exported catalog folder, upload it to Wetransfer, Dropbox, Google Drive or similar free service, and post the sharing link here.

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