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August 1, 2024
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Visualise Spots - Spots "disappear" while selecting/drawing

  • August 1, 2024
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Hello everyone!

When using the "Visualise Spots" feature I notice that as soon as I start "drawing" the selection over the spots, a lot of them (the smaller ones) suddenly disappear and only re-appear when the cursor moves in their general direction or gets closer.
It's like Lightroom Classic is switching to a low-res preview image of the photo while the selection is being made and only when the cursor gets close it switches to a higher quality or higher resolution of that area.


Naturally that's very annoying, it should not change until I've finished making my selection. Of course it's not that big of a deal when you're using a mouse and when you click every individual spot, but when using a graphics tablet to select or draw over larger areas it's really quite unexpected and unwanted behaviour.

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F. McLion
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Community Expert
August 2, 2024
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Participating Frequently
August 2, 2024

No, this is quite different. I've managed to capture a screenshot showing the difference:

 

On the left side is the regular view and on the right side is how it looks when you start to draw a selection using the "Remove" tool.

 

The spots get blurry and very dim and smaller spots are very, very hard to see, especially when working in a bright office environment. As I mentioned this only happens at a zoom level of 66.7%, at other zoom levels it does not happen.

Participating Frequently
August 2, 2024

Follow-up:

It's kind of funny as I can see the exact same thing happening AFTER drawing a selection using the "Remove" tool when using other zoom levels (50%, 100%, 200% etc) where it looks like a quick preview of the area is being rendered.

Why these zoom levels show that "preview" AFTER drawing the selection and 66,7% shows that "preview" while drawing - I don't know.

This only happens when you click and move the cusor (draw) to create the selection at 66,7% ,if you only click it does not produce that strange behaviour.

GoldingD
Legend
August 1, 2024

Tool Overlay???

 

Participating Frequently
August 2, 2024

Tool overlay only adjusts the visibility of the areas you aready worked on (meaning where the 'remove' tool has been used), not affect the visualisation of the spots.

 

But I just realised something: this behaviour only occurs when you have the current zoom level set to 66,7%!

 

It does not happen at 50%, 100%, 200%,... only at 66.7%

 

So this is definitely a bug.