P: Heal tool overlay not showing - departure from 13.2

[mark233495990o4g]

The Heal overlay used to work perfectly in previous versions of Lightroom Classic for Windows. You just pushed "H" to hide or unhide. Now, in 13.4 the closest thing is to use "Auto", but it shows you all the heal spots and you can't do a heal that is overlapping a place that has already been healed, unless you change to "Never", but then you can't see the overlay that shows you where you are sampling from. I hope this makes sense.

Is this a bug, or is lightroom going backwards?

It's driving me bonkers! 

[johnrellis]

"i would say this bug has been informally recognized by adobe."

The presence of this thread in the Bugs section indicates it's been formally recognized. Adobe moderators, part of the product team, carefully curate this section's contents. There have been many bug reports that never get a comment from Adobe employees until the fix is released, e.g.

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[Rikk Flohr: Photography]

Greetings all, 

Updates for the Adobe Photography Products are released.  The August 2024 updates contain an update for this issue. 

If you do not see the update in your Creative Cloud Application, you can refresh it by hitting [Ctrl/Cmd]+[Alt/Opt]+[ R ].

Note: It may take up to 24 hours for your update to be available in your Creative Cloud app.

Thank you for being so patient.

[johnrellis]

I confirm this has been fixed in my LR 13.5.

[jesustoastytoes]

It feels like whenever there's a subtle change, half the replies argue whether or not there's been a change.

In this case, there is, without a doubt, a frustrating change in hiding any of the previous spot remove/heal/clone/remove (even the name keeps changing?) points. You have to constantly toggle through like 4 options, but it seems as if the points are never full removed.

It'd be one thing if you could set 2 options for the H button. But there isn't.

You really can't argue that there's been a change with folks who have used the tool thousands of time a week for over a decade. I really don't care about the reasoning, justification, etc. It's different, and it's incredibly frustrating.

Same goes for the removal of the opacity slider on the remove/heal/clone/remove tool prior to using it.

STOP CHANGING TOOLS THAT HAVE BEEN THE SAME SINCE THE START. These programs aren't some fun game, they're tools for our professional businesses we use daily.

Imagine changing how the trigger of a drill works for almost all professinal carpenters on the planet. It would never happen, because the idea of that is absurd.

[johnrellis]

"You have to constantly toggle through like 4 options, but it seems as if the points are never full removed."

While the UI has changed over the years (as you've observed) to incorporate the addition of newer Remove modes (Content Aware, Generative AI), the behavior of each mode has in general remained unchanged. So if you're experiencing a problem with a particular mode (e.g. Heal) no longer behaving as it used to, that could indicate a bug rather than a deliberate change. Please start a new thread with details, and attach a full-resolution JPEG exported from the unmodified original photo (not a screenshot) along with screenshots showing the brush strokes you've made and the results.