Lightroom 4.1 RC2: Artefacts when using shadows, clarity and image warp (lens corrections)

Thanks for posting and it looks like Adobe has already acknowledged this as a problem.

I'll add that the artifacts appear to be caused by aliasing of the adjustment layer masks.

Adjustment Layer Masks?

Just a guess. I was referring to the layer masks LR's rendering engine creates internally to apply the user adjustment settings to the raw image.

I think what Todd Shaner means is that it looks like if Lightroom calculates some internal (!) masks for shadows and clarity, and that these masks are not correctly scaled and/or transformed along the different kinds of lens warp.

Of course, we normally don't see those masks.

EDIT: Sorry, somehow I did not see the answer from Todd Shaner above this post. So my post is redundant ;-)

Statements like that could give users the wrong idea about Lightroom's feature set. To be clear: There are no Layers nor Layer masks in Lightroom. There may be mechanisms that can be described analogously in that manner.

If the furor the Kelby group and onOne had to deal with regarding the marketing of Perfect Layers is any indication, we want to avoid imprecise descriptions that can be confused by the user base.

Just my opinion of course.

Sorry if this caused any confusion. My feedback was intended primarily for the Adobe LR engineering team.

Just for fun: A ridiculous application of LRTimelapse and GIF animation:



Click on preview to see the animation (1 MB). Lens correction -> manual -> rotation varies between 0...2.5 (100% crop, shadows and clarity at +100).

My link is referenced in the original post of this thread and just to be clear about the issue I have observed:

"When" the Lens Correction Panel is enabled (including the "Color" tab) - AND when I apply Clarity - I get major peculiar artifacts tot he right of my moon shot.

When Lens Corrections are Not Enabled - I can have Clarity set to 100 - and I see Zero Artifacts, nor do I discern any weird results.

"When" I have Clarity set to "0" with Lens Corrections Enabled - I get major purple fringing and other color anomalies.

(Thus - originally I assumed it was a "Clarity" slider issue - as the title indicates - but in fact in my case it is distinctly a Lens Correction issue (when using the Clarity slider)

I can provide a Tiff and my Lr4 catalog to Becky or any Adobe staff at their asking.

Thanks for the opportunity to help.

By the way: ACR 7.1 RC has the same bug.

P.S. Why is this problem marked "solved" now? All latest PV2012-capable ACR variants still have this bug: ACR 6.7 final for CS5, ACR 7.1 of LR 4.1 RC2 and ACR 7.1 RC for CS6 (don't know about ACR 6.7 final for PSE/PRE, though). Or does it just mean "internally solved", i.e. bug was found+fixed, but did not make it into an update yet?

may be solved in the Lr4.1 final....

I've encountered a bug in LR 4.1 RC2. When working on a very contrasty image where extreme 'Highlights' reduction and 'Shadows' boosting are required, a strange kind of haloing appears along the edges of dark objects which border on a light background. As landscape photographer, I've found this happening along the edges of dark tree bark adjacent to a background of light sky. What makes this behavior even more puzzling is that by disabling 'Lens Corrections', the halos go away! I can not duplicate this behavior with LR 4.0. It only happens with the RC2 version of LR 4.1. What a shame! I find the new color fringe correction tools a major improvement! Thank you for any help you may offer.

This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
LR 4.1 RC2 bug (Develop Module).

For now you can set the 'Lens Corrections' Distortion and Transform controls to '0' prevents this issue and allows using all of the other controls, including the new Defringe Color tools. The 'Crop Overlay' Angle tool can also be used if you need to rotate the image. This should be helpful with landscape images, but obviously not a perfect solution for all images.

This bug will be fixed in the LR4.1 final release.

The problem is, Todd, I hadn't used any of the Transform controls; they were all set to '0'. And yet, I still got this strange haloing. The only items which were activated were 'Enable Profile Corrections' and 'Remove Chromatic Aberration'. The problem seems to be more complicated than I imagined. I hope the bug will be fixed in the LR 4.1 final release.

The only items which were activated were 'Enable Profile Corrections' and 'Remove Chromatic Aberration'.

This is why I said you must also set the Lens Profile "Distortion" amount to '0.' You can then update the Lens Profile by clicking on 'Setup' (under Enable Profile Corections checkbox) and select 'Save New Lens Profile Defaults.' You will need to do this for each lens type and you can always change it back later.

I personally set all my lens profile defaults to '0' Distortion and only use it when there is visible barrel or pincushion distortion in the image. Wide angle zoom lenses typically have some barrel distortion and correction will cause the image periphery to become elongated and cropped. I actually prefer the look without distortion correction, especially for ultra wide angle landscape shots.Try both 100% and then 0% Distortion settings with one of your wide angle landscape images to see what I'm talking about.

Once you do this you should not see the haloing artifacts. Let us know.

Yes! The haloing is gone! Thank you for the work around! Though I don't really wish to do without distortion correction as a default setting, your suggestion is certainly a simple solution until the bug is corrected. At least I now have access to the other correction controls (including the new defringe controls!). Thank you so much for your help!