Unwanted color highlights when auto-processing in Develop

Question

For the past several months, when I auto-process images in Develop, I get unwanted color highlights, usually bright red or blue, in the image. If I save the images outside Lightroom, these highlights disappear, but they’re still very annoying when examining images inside Lightroom. The only way I’ve found to mostly get rid of them is to adjust White and Black tonal values to zero. Even then, some stray color may persist. But...maybe I want blacks or whites?

Any suggestions for killing this “improvement” in Lightroom Classic?

Conrad_C · Answer

If they’re red and blue, have you made sure that the shadow/highlight clipping warning (the command View > Show Clipping) is not enabled, or are you talking about something other than those traditional blue/red clipping warnings that have always been in Lightroom Classic since version 1.0?

If they are the standard clipping warnings, that would be consistent with them disappearing when exported, because they only appear as an editing preview tool for quality control. Also, the standard clipping warnings appear only in the Develop module. If that’s what they are, you can just disable them if you don’t want to see them.

If you’re sure they aren’t the usual warnings and you’re still not sure what they are, please post a screen shot of what you’re seeing.

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