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Andrej Michelcich
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June 14, 2023
Question

P: Colored "pixel" artifacts/subdued blacks in shadow areas (older Macs) (also visible on CR)

  • June 14, 2023
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I updated LrC to 12.4 yesyerday. Since then a number of pixels in multiple colors appear appear quite often on the image, mostly in the areas of blacks/darks and when using Tone Curve commands. It's similar to the red/blue pixels which denoted clipping in the areas of blacks/whites, but they appear in very many different other colors. Sometimes they disappear, or decrease, after actioning the commands again, sometimes they do not. Is anybody else facing the same problem which I encounter now for the vey first time after many years of use of LrC? Thank you in advance for your advise.

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Participant
December 2, 2023

Developp in version 4 (versus Version 6) of process seems better for me

Participant
December 2, 2023

The same thing is continually happening to me.  (I posted prior)  It's not consistent at all.  I'm seeing it more in the black tones and especially black and white images I make.  I turned off the GPU and it's still happening.  Adobe please help this professional photographer out!  It's my busy season and don't have time for this!!   Thanks, Teresa

Participant
November 29, 2023

Hey there, just seeing if anyone else has experienced this issue before and if there is a fix. Colors look great while in Lightroom but after export the shadows and blacks are getting quite distorted. Below is an example as well as my export settings. Seems to of just started happening this week and I havent changed my export settings in probably 10 years so thinking maybe its a bug or an app update changed something. 

 

Any help is greatly appreciated

 

(image on left is in LRC and tight image on right is exported version)

Participating Frequently
November 28, 2023

This is exactly what was happening to me!

Participant
November 28, 2023

Hello, I've been having issues with color distortion (I think) while editing and exporting images in Lightoom Classic. It looks like there are histograms levels that show up automatically on the photo and won't go away. The only things that have worked to get rid of the distortion is changing the process from Version 6 to Version 5 or 4 under Calibration. Would love some help with this!

Participant
November 28, 2023

Lightroom Classic has uploaded images with either blue or greyed-out shadow areas. How can I fix this if I choose to have (in this case) darker images? See the screenshot attached. 

Participating Frequently
November 28, 2023
Did you try the Adobe chat? They were supposed to email me today but I
haven't heard from them.

*Lisa Hyland*
Owner / Photographer
www.fourboysphotography.com


*2022 Best of Long Island Photographer!*
ryebread
Participating Frequently
November 28, 2023

I'm having the same issue. 

Hoping they can get us an update.

jaredf18260821
Participant
November 27, 2023

In response to Rikk latest reply:

 

"Second - and perhaps more importantly, we need to ask a question of those who are afflicted with the unusual colored pixels. 

 

If you edit your photo, and the odd pixels are present, scroll down to the Calibration Panel and change the Process Version from 6 (Current) to PV 5. Do not touch any edit controls. Does your image now render correctly? (Note: you may have to zoom in and out once to force a rerender. Moving to the next image in the filmstrip should accomplish the same refresh.)"

 

No, this did not fix the issue I am having. Nor does turning off GPU. My exported images are still showing the odd pixels.

Participating Frequently
November 27, 2023

Hi, when i'm importing a pics in Lighroom classic, pics looks ok in the bibliotheque and when i swap to developpement, in some area (dark one) i've got a big problem of moiré like there no pixels or there are corrupt... i've got some exemple but i'm not sure that i can dowload them into this post... i've tryed with another computer and there is no problem at all.

This artefact is not appearing in photoshop. Same files of course.

It is not very clear, i hope somebody will help me on this case...

Xavier

Participating Frequently
November 27, 2023

I upload some details, it is specialy into the shadow... between library and developpement

Participating Frequently
November 27, 2023

I find that : when the GPU is enable the pics looks perfect same into both library and develop...

Any idea why it is like this ? my computer and lightroom doesn't want to work together ?

Thx