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Two problems using Clone on a developed RAW image:
- For each point to be cloned (each single left-click, or each point crossed while dragging), Pro3 seems to re-render from scratch, starting over from the original RAW data and reapplying all the Develop actions and then the Edit actions. With even a short list of actions, this takes around 30 seconds per point... multiplied by the length of the stroke when dragging. This is so slow as to be completely unusable. (Instead, I'll try saving the developed image as a PNG, then do the cloning on that.)
- Pro3 seems to lose any mouse-up events that occur while it is busy recomputing the modified image. Thus a single click behaves similar to a never-ending drag.
Here's what I did:
- In Manage mode, choose a NEF RAW file and click Process.
- In Develop mode, crop the image.
- Still in Develop mode, set Exposure to 200.
- Click the Edit tab, zoom to 300%, and choose Repair.
- In the Repair tool, choose Clone and right-click a source point.
- Left-click at one point on the image. (The Loading... message appears and the progress indicator goes from 0 to 100 over and over again, with CPU at 100%)
- While Pro3 is processing that one click, click outside the ACDSee window on the Start button of the stopwatch app. Then left-click on a second point on the image.
- Around 30 seconds after the left-click in #6 above, Pro3 finishes processing that click and displays the modified image, then begins processing the second left-click.
- Around one minute after the first left-click, Pro3 finishes its work and the updated image appears. The result is wrong: there should be two circular bites taken out of the white area, from the two clicks, but instead a linear area has been cloned, as if I had dragged straight from point 1 to point 2. (Screenshot below)
- Since the result was wrong, and the process was unbearably slow, click Cancel to return to the Edit menu (taking 30 seconds to redraw again). Sweep the mouse over the image area and watch it pan... Pro3 seems to think the left button is still held down. IE, the mouse-up events which occurred while cloning were lost and this was not reset on exit from the Repair tool. To quit panning, left-click in the image.
(build 304)
