Tone Map Process still running, despite exiting the Tone Map Persona.

[Madpeaz]

Okay this problem I found, was more by mistake than intent.

It’s to do with the Tone Mapping process not stopping, despite cancelling and exiting the Tone Map Persona.

For example, develop a RAW file of about 23MB and rasterise, then go into the Tone Map persona. The image will start loading and the progress bar is displayed. But, If I wish to immediately cancel that process, you are unable to click Cancel, not until that process is complete. So, depending on image complexity, it can take a while.

The only way to exit Tone Map Persona quickly, is to hit ESC, then click Cancel.

So, we are now back in the Photo Persona, and you want to paint a red squiggly line across your image. But when you select your paint brush and start painting your squiggly line, nothing happens? The mouse is moving about, but no paint is visible?

Then suddenly, you have a load of red splodge over your image!

It seems to me, the memory is still being hogged by that previous Tone Map Process, meaning, until that previous process is complete, everything else does not appear to work? Well, it does, but invisibly and usually ends up in a mess. You can see from the Info panel, memory whirring way, until that stops whirring, you can’t really do anything.

As I mentioned, it was by mistake I found this issue. It was when I loaded a 54MB PNG file and clicked Tone Mapping by mistake – Then couldn’t work out why, when using the crop tool, it would not rotate?

I’m sure if these unwanted background processes were zapped when not used, everything would function a much quicker for a great user experience. I noticed this issue was also present in V1.10.

Hope this is of some use.

[Ron P.]

I don't know how you're able to press the Cancel button before the loading is complete. It will not allow me, the button remains greyed out until then. So once I can, the processing is caught up and poses no problem in the Photo Persona.

[Madpeaz]

#RonP  - If you hit ESC while it is loading, it then allows you to press the Cancel Button, which then takes you back into the Photo Persona.
But the Tone Map processing is still going on in the background. I believe you should be able to abort a process, if it's not what you intended to do, and not have to wait for something to finish. They could disable the ESC key to prevent the Cancel button being pushed, but that's not good for workflow with an unnecessary pause.

Window 10Pro, i7, Nvidia K5000 Quadro, 32GB Ram.

[Ron P.]

Ok, I see that.. I'll play with it more today.

[Chris B]

I've reproduced this. It's a bit strange... I'll see what the developers think so I'll pass it back to them - thanks.

[drok75]

I wish there was a way to cancel tone mapping. I clicked on it by mistake and it was taking forever. The only way I was able to stop it was to ctrl+alt+delete and shut down the task, but of course I lost all my unsaved work. I made the same mistake before, so for me its basically a "delete all unsaved work" button.

Edited May 26, 2024 by drok75