Beta 1.5 issue with pinpointing on 32-bit

[wfolta]

I'm reading in three Nikon NEF (raw) files as an HDR stack, tone mapping, with the Assistant set to create a 32-bit result. After this, in the Photo Persona I'm using the Straighten tool in Crop. That leaves some areas at the edges that I then attempt to fill in with the Inpainting tool, which causes a couple of kinds of problems:

 

Once, it filled in with a strange web of black wavy lines. Once it filled in but parts were semi-transparent. Several times, it's gotten up to about 80% Inpainting Brush progress bar and it just gets stuck there. Menus still pull down, etc, but it's frozen.

 

I tries  using Color Format to convert to a 16-bit, and I don't get a crash but do end up with odd behavior. Remember that this is transparent area at the edges due to the rotation. In the top right corner, it simply refuses to inpaint. On the left side, it did, but left some partly-transparent parts. On the bottom right, it inpainted perfectly. It's pretty quirky.

 

This is with Beta 1.5 RC4, on a Touchbar MacBook Pro with the 460 GPU, running the latest Sierra Beta (10.12.2 Beta -- 16C53a).

[Justin]

Hi wfolta

 

If you rasterise the rotated layer before inpainting does it work any better? This will remove the pixels beyond the edge of the spread which might be causing the problem. 

 

Cheers

Justin

[wfolta]

Rasterizing fixes the issue. I duplicated my workflow and had the issue, then Rasterized the layer and then the inpainting worked as expected. (It's really, really nice to be able to inpaint rather than having to crop to opaque. Great feature!)