Hello! This is my first post to the forum, but I'm familiar with it, having browsed around quite a lot.
I recently tested a friend's Ultimate 2020 and 2021 (he lent me a spare licence), and greatly enjoyed playing with them. It looked like I could put an end to a long search started when Apple's Aperture left a lot of orphans behind. So, having some free time now, and hoping to catch the year end promotion, I've been giving a try to Ultimate 2022. My workflow is very straightforward, since I shoot only RAW: quick selection in Manage, deeper check in View (with RAW decode), then straight to Develop with each selected photo. And here I got a nasty surprise: As Develop opens a new RAW, the whole image gets bathed with a loss of resolution and an awful glow. For a few seconds it blinks three times: normal - glow - normal - glow - normal - stable glow. 'Glow' means that everything acquires a broad, luminous halo, similar to what you'd probably get if you could slide Clarity to -200 or -300. A pretty unusable image. Nothing similar has ever happened with Ultimate 2020 and 2021 when I tested them on the same PC. Please note: this happens only with RAWs opened for the first time. If a RAW was manipulated in the past, it opens exactly as it was closed.
To make a long story short, I've discovered that deactivating Noise Reduction in the Detail tab (or just sliding to zero both Luminance and Color Noise Reduction) everything reverts to normal. But then I can't use Noise Reduction: As soon as I move those two sliders, the glow gets activated instantly in full, with no progression of sort. I've also found other ways to cancel the glow, but it always means involving a slider or some preset, and after that the RAW file isn't virgin land anymore.
I've manipulated everything I could in my desktop (various cleaning routines, a few uninstall, and so on) to no effect. I then installed the 2022 trial on my two laptops, which I don't use for photography, just to see what happened. On one I've Win 10, and everything run smoothly, the way it should. On the older one, with 8.1, the horrible glow immediately reared its head.
All in all, quite a mess. In my book this sounds like a big bug (those blinkings!), but I haven't found any mention of it around. Maybe no one is using Ultimate 2022 on so old machines?
My desktop is a Lenovo Ideacentre K450, Intel i7-4770, 16 Gb RAM, Nvidia GeForce GTX 750 with 2 Gb, Win 8.1 Home Build 9600. Disk C on SSD, photos on an internal 2 Tb HD. Ultimate 2022 Build 2798 downloaded December 24. Allow me to repeat that on this same machine both Ultimate 2020 and 2021 had no problem at all (bar variable measures of slowness).
Any suggestions? Thank you.
(Please, forgive my English. Italian is my mother tongue.)
I recently tested a friend's Ultimate 2020 and 2021 (he lent me a spare licence), and greatly enjoyed playing with them. It looked like I could put an end to a long search started when Apple's Aperture left a lot of orphans behind. So, having some free time now, and hoping to catch the year end promotion, I've been giving a try to Ultimate 2022. My workflow is very straightforward, since I shoot only RAW: quick selection in Manage, deeper check in View (with RAW decode), then straight to Develop with each selected photo. And here I got a nasty surprise: As Develop opens a new RAW, the whole image gets bathed with a loss of resolution and an awful glow. For a few seconds it blinks three times: normal - glow - normal - glow - normal - stable glow. 'Glow' means that everything acquires a broad, luminous halo, similar to what you'd probably get if you could slide Clarity to -200 or -300. A pretty unusable image. Nothing similar has ever happened with Ultimate 2020 and 2021 when I tested them on the same PC. Please note: this happens only with RAWs opened for the first time. If a RAW was manipulated in the past, it opens exactly as it was closed.
To make a long story short, I've discovered that deactivating Noise Reduction in the Detail tab (or just sliding to zero both Luminance and Color Noise Reduction) everything reverts to normal. But then I can't use Noise Reduction: As soon as I move those two sliders, the glow gets activated instantly in full, with no progression of sort. I've also found other ways to cancel the glow, but it always means involving a slider or some preset, and after that the RAW file isn't virgin land anymore.
I've manipulated everything I could in my desktop (various cleaning routines, a few uninstall, and so on) to no effect. I then installed the 2022 trial on my two laptops, which I don't use for photography, just to see what happened. On one I've Win 10, and everything run smoothly, the way it should. On the older one, with 8.1, the horrible glow immediately reared its head.
All in all, quite a mess. In my book this sounds like a big bug (those blinkings!), but I haven't found any mention of it around. Maybe no one is using Ultimate 2022 on so old machines?
My desktop is a Lenovo Ideacentre K450, Intel i7-4770, 16 Gb RAM, Nvidia GeForce GTX 750 with 2 Gb, Win 8.1 Home Build 9600. Disk C on SSD, photos on an internal 2 Tb HD. Ultimate 2022 Build 2798 downloaded December 24. Allow me to repeat that on this same machine both Ultimate 2020 and 2021 had no problem at all (bar variable measures of slowness).
Any suggestions? Thank you.
(Please, forgive my English. Italian is my mother tongue.)
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