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P: Retouch circle automatically becomes smaller on images with Transform Adjustments

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June 29, 2023
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Since I have updated to Lightroom Classic 12.4, the retouch circle automatically becomes smaller every time I use it in the same picture. For example, I put the width of the circle on 20 and use it, then I go to another spot in the picture to use the same tool and automatically LR has changed the width to 19. Then to 18, 17, 16 and so on. Anyone having the same problem? This looks like a bug?

Thank you for any comments.

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JohanElzenga

Community Expert

The way I understand it is that for a long time Adobe could not reproduce this problem. Now it has become clear that it only occurs when the image has been transformed -either by the Upright tools or by a lens profile- it should hopefully not take that long anymore for a fix.

-- Johan W. Elzenga

Rayandbar

New Participant

Not sure if it helps Adobe prioritise this but it has been irritating me for some time too. Making long exposures on the beach, seaspray lands and condenses on the glass filter, with many spots to heal , some attention to sorting out known errors, rather than developing new ideas would be appreciated

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Jedgie1

Participating Frequently

When will this bug get fixed. It is very annoying!!!!

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SanderTaats

Participating Frequently

It's a old bug and really annoying since I use this tool every day. It can't be difficult to fix if they cared.

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nancyb72836847

New Participant

That's a fantastic illustration. Brilliant!

Not only is the bug driving me a bit nuts, but I've also noticed a severe performance hitn when using the healing brush tool on a image with lots of dust to spot. I mean it slows the system (Apple Studio - updated OS and LR Classic version) to a crazy degree. I'll probably start a new topic on it.

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SanderTaats

Participating Frequently

When I use the healing brush tool it decreases in size with every single click even though I don't change the size myself. Same happens with both content aware remove and heal tool. I'm using version 13.0.1 with camera raw 16.0 on Windows 11 Pro but this issue has been there for quite a while.

Thought it would get fixed eventually but it's still here so that's why I'm making a post about it. It's frustrating having to increase the size when I never wanted to change the size to start with when removing sensor dust for example since those have the same size often. When you use the tool multiple times in a row then you can clearly see that the circle gets smaller and smaller.

AxelMatt

Community Expert

Try is to reset the preferences to the default settings.

Reset Procedure:
Close Lightroom.
Windows: Hold down [Alt]+[Shift] while restarting Lightroom.
Mac: Hold down [Opt]+[Shift] while restarting Lightroom.
Overwrite the Preferences when prompted by the dialog.
Close Lightroom.
Restart Lightroom.

It's recommended to backup your preferences before you reset the preferences to the default settings:

https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/kb/preference-file-and-other-file-locations.html

My System: Intel i7-8700K - 64GB RAM - NVidia Geforce RTX 3060 - Windows 11 Pro 25H2 -- LR-Classic 15 - Photoshop 27 - Nik Collection 8 - PureRAW 5 - Topaz Photo

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Jedgie1

Participating Frequently

Rikk,

If I disable the Lens Correction and Reset the Transformation tools after using the retouching tool the tool does not continue to get smaller with use but it also does not revert to my orignally selected size it stays the same as the last time I used it befor disabling the L.C. and T. tools. Also, for me the size indicator decreases as the tool size decreases; in contradiction to JLobert's issue of the indicator staying the same as the tool size diminishes.

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theos62987401

New Participant

Hi... Reporting a bug.

In Adobe Camera RAW and in the Healing - Clone Mode, the Healing Tool Icon - Pointer gets smaller as you click the mouse (Its a circle).

The size reduces by 1 pixel at a time. until it reaches 1.

Noting that this happens AFTER you have manipulated the Geometry of the image via the Geometry Panel. The ICON should NOT get smaller.

If I manipulate the other panels such as Light, Color etc the icon stays the same size when in the Healing Mode.

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JLobert

Known Participant

I forgot to upload the image, see comments.

One other thing: the issue becomes MUCH more extreme with the Transform applied, compared to the Lens Profile

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JLobert

Known Participant

Hello Rikk,

I can confirm that this happens either with the lens profile enabled or a transform action done (I tried with vertical and aspect). If I disable those, the issue does not happen! I switched back and forth on the same image in the same session. It looks repeatable.

One other thing I noticed: the size indicator stays constant (e.g., "77") even though the circle get smaller.