Lightroom 9.3: Bleeding color with Healing Tool

I have same problem. Healing spots on picture edges wont heal them at all. It just makes spot dark and blurry.

YES ... I am dealing with this as well and it is horrible. I'm having to skip over a lot of images for the time being. I do hope Adobe realizes this is a huge issue for a good number of us.

Update: I also reverted back to 9.2. Whew! It all works as expected.

I'm seeing very odd behavior as well. 

WIth cloning, I'm seeing the destination brightness to be higher than the source. This example is removing dark tree branches.


And heal darkens

I'm relatively new to this forum and wondering if anyone from Adobe is actually monitoring our comments here. Are our posts here likely to result in any action by Adobe to address the issues? Or are we just complaining to each other? Specifically wondering about forum member Rikk Flohr, who is listed as "Official Rep". Does that mean he an Adobe employee?

I'm seeing a potentially related problem in LR 9.3 - using clone/heal at the edge of an image affects the ENTIRE image and creates a shift in color.

I made a screen recording of this problem: https://www.dropbox.com/s/qt0hlfwxjuipg0v/lr-93-clone-heal-problem.mov?dl=0

I know that this is an extreme example and LR never did a great job at clone/heal jobs like these. I never noticed this before LR 9.3 and then was surprised to find that LR 9.2.1 *also* shifts the tones of the entire image around when I use clone/heal that way:

Screen recording of LR 9.2.1: https://www.dropbox.com/s/fn51szo7goqvl0n/lr-921-clone-heal-problem.mov?dl=0

If this is unrelated please advise and I open a new topic. Thanks.

I have the same issue with LrC 9.3. A image I exported previous to upgrading to 9.3 did not have this issue. I reexported last night after upgrading and got this.
The portion I am replacing (the target) is dark.

I reported this issue for Lr Classic 4-5 months ago (thread link below)... not sure what version we were on then (I keep it updated and current), but it was definitely happening back then, albeit seemingly intermittent at that time. The issue *seems* to be happening even more consistently now. 

It's really a large detriment to my editing; I use spot healing along the edge of images constantly to clean them up!  Do we know if Adobe is working on this?  Thank you!

Here's my thread:  https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/spot-removal-bug?utm_source=notification&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=new_comment&utm_content=reply_button&reply[id]=20585113#reply_20585113

Hey Adobe, you broke Lightroom, we're all still paying for it, maybe fix it?

@Michael DeMaria "Do we know if Adobe is working on this?" 

If you look at the top of any thread in this forum you will see a status. This thread is marked as "Acknowledged" meaning it has been repeated by Adobe staff and had a bug filed for a fix in an upcoming version. Note: this fix will be coming from ACR as it is a bug in the underlying engine and affects Camera Raw, Lightroom Classic and Lightroom Ecosystem. 

So, it is possible to tell on any post here what its status is at the current time.  Also see: https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/getting-the-most-from-this-forum-reporting-bugs

@Anthony Blackett: Engineering is asking for the original raw file with edits (DNG or raw+xmp) for the example you gave me. Can you provide this?

@Rikk Flohr,

Not sure why the JPG image provided is insufficient. I don't have a RAW or DNG for this exact image because I added the artificial spots in Photoshop for testing purposes.

Nevertheless, here is a link to download the DNG (converted from original NEF) shown below in a screen shot as another example image.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/6j851dnx4oqcrvn/DSC_0188.DNG?dl=0

The only Develop processing done and saved to the DNG is to use the Spot Removal Tool in Heal mode to remove indicated tree branches on the left and right sides of the image.



When this DNG is imported in LrC 9.2.1, the healing is as expected.



When it is imported into LrC 9.3, the healing is a mess.



Looking forward to an update.

At this point, Lr is unusable due to this. There's so much minor cleanup I do as a matter of practice on all of my portraits and commercial interiors. I'm now seeing not just edge effect issues but also just straight up simple clone/heal issues. I'm seeing ghosting of the clone/heal over the area being fixed where the source is something simple like the sky. Opacity is set to 100%. 

Someone commented earlier today that Lr is unusable now because of this issue.  I'm not sure where their comment went, I'm either missing it here or perhaps they removed it.  But I agree completely - I am unable to finish a critical percentage of images for my work because of this issue.  So what little work I have, thanks to the pandemic, is now crippled by this issue.  Thus, this has become much more than just a mere inconvenience.  I wonder if Adobe realizes just how much this particular issue affects it's users?

I know a guy who has access to the RC version of the 9.4 update (that same build will probably be released sometime next week), so I forwarded him the sample DNG from Anthony Blackett. Unfortunately results are the same as in 9.3 (what a surprise...)
So it can go 3 ways:
 - could be fixed in a couple of weeks with v9.4.1 if issue is escalated enough
 - could be fixed in v10 (October-November)
 - or they will just say 'this is the new tool behaviour, deal with it'