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Lightroom CC: Random white images when exporting or publishing
I have just installed the 2015 CC edition of Light Room but am having problems publishing and exporting photographs. When either exporting to hard disk or publishing to FlickR, I'm getting 5 or 6 random, all white images.
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Rikk
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steve_sprengel
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http://feedback.photoshop.com/photosh...
Does it make a difference if you export from Library vs Develop?
Do you have any non-Adobe plug-ins installed?
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david_simmonds_7197189
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Interestingly, the same pictures were affected on both exports (hard disk and FlickR) but when these were selected individually they exported ok.
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richarddumoulin
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I try exporting from Library or Develop and it makes no difference.
I also get this problem in one or two photo on 100. The image is then blank (white) but I see my watermark.
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Is there anything consistent about the photo that is white in relation to the other photos--like it's a different orientation or after or before one of different orientation?
Is it watermark related? In other words if you don't do the watermark does it still occur?
What type of watermark are you using, PNG, JPG, Text (what font)?
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richarddumoulin
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Thanks for taking the time to investigate this...
The blank photo takes the place of an intended photo.
Photos are same orientation and sometimes different sizes.
Up to now I only had the problem with watermarked photos. I will try it today without the watermark.
Watermark are PNG images.
Also, I have installed recently on my computer ImageMagick to create PDF image, I am wondering if the mogrify of Lightroom may have problem with the ImageMagick mogrify...
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If I have the watermark turned on, then 3 of them were completely white, apart from the watermark. Interestingly, using Windows Explorer to view the thumbnails then these are all ok. It is only when the file is opened that the image is white.
If I export the three images again, by themselves, then they export correctly. It is only when they are part of a large batch.
When I turned off adding a watermark and then exporting all 147 images again, they all exported OK.
Exporting the entire batch, with watermarking turned back on, then the same three images were all white.
The file size of the blank images are between 300KB to 400KB but when exported correctly, they are around 16MB.
I have uploaded the blank image.
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richarddumoulin
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It doesn't seem to matter if it's a single batch export or simultaneous batch exports:
Exporting one folder at a time, each about 500 images:
"Export Results" says 3 files "could not be opened", but I was able to individually export them.
8 images were blank (logo on white). All 8 exported correctly when individually exported.
Simultaneous export of two folders, each about 500 images:
"Export Results" says 5 files "could not be opened", but I was able to individually export them.
10 images were blank (logo on white). All 10 exported correctly when individually exported.
The files which "can't be opened" or export as white are scattered throughout the folders being exported.
It's really troubling that the thumbnails sometimes show the image, and that this problem has appeared for quite a while.
How many of us actually want to open each file to know if the export worked? When we don't check each file, we end up uploading a lot of blank images to an online gallery - very unprofessional looking.
What makes the export problem additionally difficult is when files are renamed on export. (We rename by groups and sequence number within the sporting event to make it easier for the clients.) It makes it very difficult to go back and locate the file which needs to be re-exported.
Really, I don't care about facial recognition, mapping, or other "bells and whistles". Exporting is core functionality that I do care about.
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steve_sprengel
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The files-cannot-be-read could be a simple permissions problem, but also occurs if another process is also trying to manipulate (or read) the file at the same time LR is doing something with it. This has been reported if the export folder is a local dropbox folder as well as if the folder is being "watched" by Bridge. This is less a bug in LR and more of a user-created situation where two processes are interfering with each other (or there is a permissions problem).
The white exports are due to the watermark and a bug in LR6. LR 5.0 beta had the same problem some years ago. Hopefully Adobe can fix this one quickly as it's been reported many times since LR 6 came out. A workaround would be to not watermark during the export and use another product afterwards. I don't have anything free to recommend, but if you also have PS as part of the CC Photography Plan, then there may be a script somewhere that can do watermarks.
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steve_jackman
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I have used different versions of lightroom with the same workflow and no problems ever encountered so why on 2015
Its completely random I am using no other programmes just load to lr add watermark and export then you get random watermarked white blank files but you can see the pic in a thumb nail open it then goes white
PITA
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andrej_stern
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I'll try the workaround to export without a watermark.
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