Adjustment Brush Slider setting defaults.

I notice that even with the Basic Panel sliders  all centered at 0; when selecting the Adjustment Brush the sliders are set at some "pre-determined" value.
Example: I opened an image in ACR7, and all the Basic Panel sliders except the  Temp & Tint  are centered at "0" which makes sense.
When I select the Adjustment Brush the Temp & Tint are at "0", Exposure is at +4.00, Highlights at -61, Shadows at +100 & Clarity at +36; and that seems to be the default for every file opened.
What's with the program making pre-determined settings?  I would have thought they'd default at "0" like the Basic panel?
Leigh

Leigh-a wrote:
While you can use the Preview in ACR, it "turns off" any corrections previously applied in the Basic Panel and is, therefore, most useful only if the Adjustment Brush is used prior to any adjustments in the Basic Panel. 
I may be misunderstanding what you meant by this, but on its plain meaning it seems wrong.
Assuming you are in the Adjustment Brush panel, toggling the Preview just turns off/on the edits made only in that panel - any edits made in the Basic Panel (or any other panel for that matter) remain visible. It would be quite pointless if they did not.
The only panels in which you can turn off the edits made in other panels are the Presets and Snapshots panels, and there, when you toggle the Preview, its turns off/on all the edits made in all the other panels.
Correction: Just did a test and found that toggling the Preview in Presets/Snapshots does not turn off/on local edits made with the Adjustment Brush. 
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