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October 26, 2017
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Random color dots in develop module

  • October 26, 2017
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I am hoping someone smarter than me can point me in the right direction here. I'm pretty sure I have a hardware issue, but I don't know what to troubleshoot. I have an issue with working with RAW images in Lightroom. I get a bunch of random colored dots everywhere throughout my image. I've uploaded two screenshots, the first is Lightroom in develop mode. The second is the same but zoomed into a discolored area.

I am running the latest version of Lightroom Classic CC version 7.0, just installed from Creative Cloud on a clean install of Windows 10. I am running a GTX 1060 graphics card with the latest drivers installed and 16GB of RAM.

The thing is the dots only appear about 50% of the time. As I am clicking through different images across the bottom, some images will have this effect, and others won't. When I reach an image that has the effect, I can often click on another image, then return to the problem one, and it will be fine. The effect carries over when I export to JPEG as well, and when I "edit in Photoshop". Additionally, I was having the same problem with the previous version of Lightroom but didn't try to troubleshoot because I was using another computer for photography.  It does this with both Sony and Canon RAW images and the RAW files all work perfectly fine on other computers, so this is a problem unique to this particular computer and not my cameras.

I have tried disabling the "Use Graphics Processor" setting, playing around with cache settings and the smart preview settings and nothing works. I have also tried different color management profiles in Windows.

Thanks for reading, I hope someone can point me in the right direction.

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    Participant
    November 12, 2023

    Did you ever solve this? mine does exactly the same thing. nothing to do with clipping as the effect appears randomly.  

    Rikk Flohr_Photography
    Community Manager
    Community Manager
    November 12, 2023

    You’ve posted to an ancient thread. It is highly unlikely that the issue described in this thread, though not impossible, is the same one you are currently experiencing. Rather than resurrect an old thread that is seemingly similar, you are better off posting to a new thread with fresh, complete information, including system information, a complete description of the problem, and step-by-step instructions for reproduction. 

     

    If the issue is the same, we will merge you back into the appropriate location. 

     

    Thank you!

     

    Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org
    johnrellis
    Legend
    October 26, 2017

    You've got the clipping indicators turned on (see How to adjust image tone and color, and work in grayscale in Lightroom Classic CC):

    To turn them off, do View > Show Clipping (see the menu for a shortcut), or click on the indicators.

    Bob Somrak
    Legend
    October 26, 2017

    The clipping triangles do not have white squares around them so the indicators are not turned on.  Also, isn't the clipping colors only blue and red.  I have never seen other colors.

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    johnrellis
    Legend
    October 26, 2017

    The clipping triangles do not have white squares around them so the indicators are not turned on.  Also, isn't the clipping colors only blue and red.  I have never seen other colors.

    Right, thanks, I should have looked more carefully.