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Glenn NK

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Re: Lightroom 5 hot issues
« Reply #20 on: July 08, 2013, 11:56:33 pm »

You're confusing "merchantable quality" and "faultless". They're very different concepts.

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Re: Lightroom 5 hot issues
« Reply #21 on: July 11, 2013, 11:16:24 pm »

Guess you've never been involved in software development, right? Fixing one bug can introduce other bugs...bugs not seen before nor expected. That's what happened here. And, it wasn't just Lightroom that got hit with this bug, it also was introduced in Camera Raw 8.1. So, it wasn't really a LR bug it was a LR/ACR raw processing pipeline bug that got introduced in the last several builds that sadly, none of the internal testers caught. Was it a bad bug? You bet...was it "incompetence", to a degree, yes...some code was changed that introduced this new bug and nobody caught it. Was it "disregard for their customers"? You gotta be shyting me...do you honestly think so little of Adobe that this possibility is real in your mind? Or, are you simply trying to spread fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD).

Look, it's ok to talk about what could have been done in LR5 or what should have been done in LR5 and what may be done in the future (LR6), but pulling this kind of crap out of thin air helps nobody...

I'm sure the engineers that modified the code and caused this bug are busy trying to fix it...is it a "data loss" bug? Nope...but yes, it's a problem but one that can be worked around...is Adobe embarrassed by this bug? You bet...nobody in their right mind however, would say that this bug would be a result of "disregard for their customers".

So, the work around isn't "convenient" but is it a reason not to use LR5? Nope...it simply modifies the way you need to use it. And it impacts not only LR5 but ACR 8.1 as well. So, until the bug is fixed, don't downsample images to less that 1/3 of the original capture size in Export...

In retrospect, I was responding to someone else's information, and I don't know how reliable that information is. I should have qualified my comment to say what my opinion would be if the other person's statement was well founded. Your comments seem to indicate that the information does have a reasonable basis in fact.

No, I don't know anything about software development. And why should I? I am paying for someone else to do that work and would hope that they would do their job well and deliver a product that is free from major bugs for the majority of users. I realize that the developers can't possibly test for every system on which their software might be used, but isn't that what beta testing supposed to help with? If changes are made to the software before release, shouldn't that warrant another round of beta testing, and, assuming the output sharpening bug is real and widespread, shouldn't such a fundamental feature be caught in a round of beta testing?

As for a workaround, the only one I know of is to do the output sharpening in some other software or an earlier version of LR. Your statement that those who are experiencing the problem should avoid downsizing to 1/3 or smaller leaves me bewildered, since a great deal of the output (certainly mine) is for the Web, which typically requires downsizing to that degree.

Simply put, if that bug would affect my system, I would not want to use that software at all, since that kind of output size is something I do frequently and LR4 is working fine for me (now that I have a new computer).

I hardly expect any software to be completely immune from bugs when it is released, but it seems reasonable to me to expect the software to not have bugs that affect the most widely used features and settings on a significant majority of computers, especially brand new ones.

I have gotten the distinct impression from my own experience and from the comments of many other users of LR that Adobe really could either do more beta testing of LR before final release or should be more conservative about adding features so that a very lengthy period of beta testing will be less likely.
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Re: Lightroom 5 hot issues
« Reply #22 on: July 12, 2013, 12:33:45 am »

In retrospect, I was responding to someone else's information, and I don't know how reliable that information is.

So, when you said "I really think that is either incompetence or disregard for their customers." you didn't really mean it? You were responding to somebody else's info?

As to work arounds, there are several LR plug-ins that can bypass the downsample not sharpening/noise reduction issue. Want to know what they are?
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Re: Lightroom 5 hot issues
« Reply #23 on: July 12, 2013, 01:57:50 am »

So, when you said "I really think that is either incompetence or disregard for their customers." you didn't really mean it? You were responding to somebody else's info?

As to work arounds, there are several LR plug-ins that can bypass the downsample not sharpening/noise reduction issue. Want to know what they are?

Actually, Adobe acknowledges the problem in its forums, as indicated in the OP's link, so my comment about qualifying my opinion was not necessary. The problem exists. Given Adobe's history, I rather doubt that incompetence is involved, though only Adobe personel can really be authoritative on this sort of thing, one way or the other. I was just mentioning it as a possibility, however remote. What seems more likely to me (and, it seems, to a fair number of others) is that Adobe is not doing sufficient testing before final release of Lightroom, which I think can be construed as a kind of disregard for its customers, not wholesale disregard, but still troubling if real.

As far as workarounds, will they give me the same results as Lightroom, with no additional cost and with minimal set up? I have my capture sharpening setup to work with the output LR sharpening settings. Would I have to adjust that regime? If so, I am not interested. I have Mogrify, but with that I would have to work out output sharpening pre sets for a variety of pixel dimensions I might normally use. I have LR 4, and have no overwhelming need for any of the features of LR5, so I will wait a few updates until more of the bugs are worked out.
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Re: Lightroom 5 hot issues
« Reply #24 on: July 12, 2013, 03:45:16 am »

If you've exported JPEGs at under 1/3, they won't contain output sharpening. So reimport them, and export them at 1:! with the sharpening. I've tried comparing with LR4 output and see no difference.

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Re: Lightroom 5 hot issues
« Reply #25 on: July 12, 2013, 11:39:47 am »

... So reimport them, and export them ...

A workaround as pathetic as Bill Gates' one (to restart computer every time Windows misbehaves)?

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Re: Lightroom 5 hot issues
« Reply #26 on: July 12, 2013, 12:36:18 pm »

Sure, it's a shame it's needed, but feel free to suggest a better one.
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Re: Lightroom 5 hot issues
« Reply #27 on: July 13, 2013, 10:12:55 am »

Never in my 32 years of personal computer use.

If it were perfect, it would never get out the door.

I've accomplished great things in work and play over the years with imperfect software, computers and people (me). LOL!

Progress, not perfection!

My 2 cents.

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Re: Lightroom 5 hot issues
« Reply #28 on: July 13, 2013, 12:53:57 pm »

Come on, people!!!

I've been using software for at least last 30 years too, and yes, I am absolutely positive every software I used had bugs. The thing is, I almost never encounter those bugs in practice. Which means they show up usually as a combination of at least two rare occurrences.

Having to save your work at less than 1/3 of the original size is not a rare occurrence by any stretch  of imagination, and the Chernobyl-sized bug mutant shall be addressed by Adobe immediately, not waiting 5.1 release.

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Re: Lightroom 5 hot issues
« Reply #29 on: July 13, 2013, 12:59:17 pm »

I said earlier in the thread "I actually agree that this issue merits a hotfix and have made this suggestion directly to people at Adobe."
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Re: Lightroom 5 hot issues
« Reply #30 on: July 13, 2013, 01:17:27 pm »

and the Chernobyl-sized bug mutant shall be addressed by Adobe immediately, not waiting 5.1 release.
no, only for the users of subscription license... perpetual ones shall wait  ;D
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Re: Lightroom 5 hot issues
« Reply #31 on: July 13, 2013, 04:23:21 pm »

Come on, people!!!

I've been using software for at least last 30 years too, and yes, I am absolutely positive every software I used had bugs. The thing is, I almost never encounter those bugs in practice. Which means they show up usually as a combination of at least two rare occurrences.

Having to save your work at less than 1/3 of the original size is not a rare occurrence by any stretch  of imagination, and the Chernobyl-sized bug mutant shall be addressed by Adobe immediately, not waiting 5.1 release.

I am with you on that, Slobodan.

With most software, including previous versions of Lightroom, Photoshop, even Windows, I keep getting automatically updated to a new sub-version that contains fixes for a multitude of bugs I never knew existed. As a D800 user regularly required to export Jpegs with dimensions of not more than 1400x1050 pixels for PDI competitions, this bug really does matter.
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Re: Lightroom 5 hot issues
« Reply #32 on: July 13, 2013, 04:41:12 pm »

no, only for the users of subscription license... perpetual ones shall wait  ;D
I have seen that for CC subscribers there is a version 5.0.1. Does anybody know if that version has the resize bug?
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« Reply #33 on: July 14, 2013, 05:53:34 am »

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I have seen that for CC subscribers there is a version 5.0.1. Does anybody know if that version has the resize bug?

You mean that Adobe are saying that we will be able to continue enjoying Lightroom on a perpetual licence, without being required to get our heads in the Clouds, but that, in fact, they will leave the non-Cloud version with bugs that, at worst, make it unusable or, at best, inconvenient?

You may think that. I couldn't possibly comment on such a cynical view!
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Re: Lightroom 5 hot issues
« Reply #34 on: July 14, 2013, 06:12:35 am »

You're confusing "merchantable quality" and "faultless". They're very different concepts.

Jeremy

Not in UK, Jeremy. Amazon did agree to refund full purchase price.
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Re: Lightroom 5 hot issues
« Reply #35 on: July 14, 2013, 06:33:08 am »

You mean that Adobe are saying that we will be able to continue enjoying Lightroom on a perpetual licence, without being required to get our heads in the Clouds, but that, in fact, they will leave the non-Cloud version with bugs that, at worst, make it unusable or, at best, inconvenient?

You may think that. I couldn't possibly comment on such a cynical view!
No, only that bug fixes will only be in the regular quarterly "dot" updates for perpetual licensees, but available as soon as they are ready in the cloud. In fact, I seem to remember Jeff citing immediate updates as one of the advantages of cloud subscription.
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« Reply #36 on: July 14, 2013, 06:59:10 am »

From what I hear, the .01 was only to differentiate the CC-downloaded copy from a perpetual one but there are no other differences. And sorry to spike the conspiracy theory, but I don't think there's any plan for CC subscribers to get LR updates earlier than other customers. Essentially they get a licence number which they could apply to the normal download of a LR update. But yes, it's a mess!

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Re: Lightroom 5 hot issues
« Reply #37 on: July 14, 2013, 12:38:23 pm »

Bitchin' & moaning about bug fixes?

You need this guy's perspective...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3dYS7PcAG4

But seriously, I still want Adobe to come up with some way for LR's (whatever version) Raw processor to override ACR's when invoking "Edit In Photoshop" without LR creating a copy when the pixel driven gamma encoded preview is opened in older versions of Photoshop. Not waiting for that to happen.

Oh well. At least I'm not waiting 40 minutes on the tarmac for my flight to take off.
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Re: Lightroom 5 hot issues
« Reply #38 on: July 14, 2013, 04:00:07 pm »

Guess you've never been involved in software development, right? Fixing one bug can introduce other bugs...bugs not seen before nor expected. That's what happened here. And, it wasn't just Lightroom that got hit with this bug, it also was introduced in Camera Raw 8.1. So, it wasn't really a LR bug it was a LR/ACR raw processing pipeline bug that got introduced in the last several builds that sadly, none of the internal testers caught.

Unfortunately, the automated LR test-suite (which hopefully runs after each commit to the source code) didn't catch this regression.

This a good example of a bug/regression which can and should be found by a computer test program and not by a human tester.
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Re: Lightroom 5 hot issues
« Reply #39 on: July 14, 2013, 04:10:13 pm »


So, the work around isn't "convenient" but is it a reason not to use LR5? Nope...it simply modifies the way you need to use it. And it impacts not only LR5 but ACR 8.1 as well. So, until the bug is fixed, don't downsample images to less that 1/3 of the original capture size in Export...

Jeff, Everything you're saying sounds reasonable enough. Any more news about when this export problem might be fixed? We have about one hundred photos ready to go on our website at 800 res, but need the sharpening fix to proceed. Is there a viable workaround other than going to Photoshop one photo at a time? It seems like to export to 800 res, then re-import and re-export at 800 res again would lose quality, right?

Really enjoyed all of the Tutorials you've done with Michael - very helpful.

-Wes
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