P: Incorrect cropping of "Define Pattern" in 32-bit mode in some cases.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

Incorrect cropping of "Define Pattern" in 32-bit mode in some cases.

Reproduce steps:

- Create a new 32-bit image with size 32x32px.
- Fill it white.
- Select the right-most pixel column (x = 31, y = 0..31) and the botto-most row (y = 31, x = 0..31) and fill them black.
- Select everything (32x32) with the selection tools.
- Edit > Define Pattern:

Expected: I see a 32x32 pattern in the preview.

Actual: I see a cropped 1x32px pattern which isn't what I selected.

[conroy]

Problem is also in 16-bit mode.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

Thank you, confirmed in 16-bit too (identical repro). Not in 8-bit.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

What happened. It's been almost a month.

Adobe stopped processing bugs from this forum?

[conroy]

Is this problem going to be acknowledged by Adobe, at least?

Pattern definition also malfunctions in 8-bit grayscale mode, by the way.

[J453]

Thanks. We're looking into it.

[conroy]

Thanks! I'm pleased to see it has become marked In Progress now.

[jeep57]

Just so everyone knows, this issue has been there for years, not just in the latest versions of photoshop.

(i was reading an old photoshop book from the library dated 1998 and that was mentioned as a problem in the grayscale mode)

The way around it as explained in above book is to make the document bigger than the pattern and then just select the area to define as the pattern.

[J453]

Dan, that's correct. Looks like its been there since 32-bit layer support went in. Thanks for the workaround suggestion.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

Actually, it's been there since 16 bit support for patterns was added.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

I can't get it to malfunction in 8 bit - only 16 and 32 bit (the auto repeat detection code was not correctly modified for anything greater than 8 bit/channel).

[conroy]

You said the same to me two days ago in the Photoshop forum where I post every day, so I twice provided you a link to a post with a reproducable example of a pattern definition error in 8-bit grayscale mode. Third time lucky, maybe: http://forums.adobe.com/message/5050124

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

And I still can't reproduce that. In 8 bit it still works.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

Conroy, I don't think your forum post has enough specifics. You're obviously having a problem, but you'll need to be very very specific about the pattern and file. It's best to create a file with the problematic pattern and upload it somewhere so everyone can test.

Also be specific about the exact Photoshop version you have, and which OS you're running on OS X or Windows (also the exact version of OS X or Windows you have).

I'm not an Adobe employee, but I'm a developer, and so I know some of these problems can get very specific depending on your setup.

[conroy]

Stan,

"you'll need to be very very specific about the pattern and file."

Look at the screenshot by mcgraphic in the first post of the thread to which I linked. The document view is zoomed to 100% and shows the design being sourced for a pattern. The document tab clearly says 8-bit grayscale. The resulting pattern definition is shown, too. I was able to replicate that document and resulting erroneous pattern definition in a few seconds with no difficulty.

"be specific about the exact Photoshop version you have, and which OS you're running"

The error occurs consistently (i.e. at every attempt) in Photoshop 13.0.1 and 12.1.1 on OS X 10.6.8.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

Still can't reproduce it. And you should be on 13.0.4.

[conroy]

Chris,

"And I still can't reproduce that. In 8 bit it still works."

I specifically wrote "8-bit grayscale" twice, above. It's not clear whether you've tried 8-bit g-r-a-y-s-c-a-l-e.

[conroy]

Chris,

"you should be on 13.0.4."

I'd use 13.0.4 and risk breaking things that work in 13.0.1 if there was information on the fixes in 13.0.4 or 13.0.3 or 13.0.2 for problems in 13.0.1.

(Retina support is of no interest to me.)

[conroy]

8-bit Lab and 8-bit Grayscale problem, too.

IMPORTANT: Use the attached test image as pattern source.

Pattern definition malfunctions in:

8-bit Lab
8-bit Grayscale

Open the attached 450 x 400 pixels 8-bit RGB PNG in Photoshop.
I used versions 13.0.1 and 12.1.1 on OS X 10.6.8..

Convert to 8-bit Lab.
Define Pattern will malfunction, defining only a few columns of the source design.

Convert to 8-bit Grayscale.
Define Pattern will malfunction as above.

[conroy]

The damned forum software converts my PNG from RGB to Bitmap.
The image can still be used, though.
First convert to 8-bit Grayscale then try Define Pattern.
Then convert to 8-bit Lab then try Define Pattern.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

If you're on MacOS (and I think you are): 13.0.4 fixes the licensing bug, 13.0.2 and 13.0.3 fix many other bugs.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

I'm trying to follow your steps as stated. If you've left something important out of your steps needed to reproduce the problem, please let us know.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

OK, it did reproduce in LAB. I'll take a look and see what's happening.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

I did reproduce in 8-bit grayscale as well.

It's very specific to the exact pixels of the image.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

BTW I did reproduce in 13.0.4, Snow Leopard OS X.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

Chris, somewhere between 13.0.2 and 13.0.4 a new bug was also introduced, a quite nasty text size calculation bug (which I reported about a month ago), which makes life for web developers and app developers very hard, if they try to use PSD for reference in turning typography settings to CSS, for example.

And no one is looking into this right now, because your "text guy" is on vacation, I was told. Link:

http://feedback.photoshop.com/photosh...

So things are complicated with 13.0.4.