Adjustment brushes just plain stinks....

Really disappointed in both CR and LR2 as the adjustment brush is unusable.
If I open a raw image in Photoshop CS4 and try to use the adjustment brush it consistently crashes PS.
If I use the adjustment brush in LR2 after a couple of strokes the program grinds to a crawl and then will quit all together. I have to reboot the system after one these sessions.
Great idea just too bad it is so lousy.
Really disappointed in the quality of these releases. Spent alot of time with tech support and after about an hour of trouble shooting the tech comes back and tells me it's a bug they know about and will be fixed with next release. It wasn't fixed with LR 2.2.....maybe he meant ver.3

>This issue related to Lr2.0 and 2.1, it was fixed in Lr 2.2
Wish you were 100% correct but alas not so for me and apparently others. Please read my latest post (#34) here for some helpful details:
http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.59b74b5a/33
While my machine may be considered "dated" and perhaps mocked by some, it was considered a hot (Asus) board in it's day with Intel 875 chipset, 3.0 Ghz Intel processor, Asus (NVidia) N6800 video card w/512 MB RAM, Promise RAID for both IDE and SATA, 3 GB RAM, etc., etc. running on Win XP Pro SP3. Built her myself and saved big $$.
>The fact that the OP is having Camera Raw crash Photoshop is a REAL GOOD indication his computer has some serious problems
Maybe, but this issue is clearly an Adobe problem (Windows for sure)and is complicated by the many software/hardware factors, as well. Simply blaming one's hardware doesn't help solve the problem any more than someone ranting about Adobe's alleged incompetence. As you can see from my above referenced post, there is an issue with ACR (and CS4) albeit a relatively minor one (for me) involving a bit o' lag. Strangely enough, the ol' box seems to outperform many newer multi cores for some reason (Vista?) and overall I'm very happy with ACR and CS4 (next machine will likely be a Mac, though). LR needs more help if I'm to keep it beyond the trial period. Too bad, 30% off with free shipping from Adobe seemed to be a pretty good deal.

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The adjustment brush is slow and sluggish for a lot of users--the forum is full of such posts.
Does it work well--yes, on some systems. It was absolutely pitless for me, UNTIL I moved LR to our fastest machine, an Intel 9550, 4gigs Ram,1300 FSB,Sata 2 and Firewire 800 drives with an Nvidia 8600GT set to maximize performance and minimize quality in the 3D section of the Nvidia control panel.
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My view is that the real culprit is to be found in the Display Card settings on most machines. LR2 was fast on this high end machine, but the brush was sluggish until I followed a suggestion in a recent thread on Nvidia card solutions and set it to maximize performance instead of quality and saved that as an Nvidia preset for LR.
I suggest you look at your display card control for a possible solution. Take a look at this thread:
http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.59b65d9c/30
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Hi GlennMorley
Please try to start your system in Safe boot.
Refer to below link on how to log in safe boot.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1564
Launch Lightroom and check if the adjustment brush appear. Then restart the machine normally and check in your original account.
Thanks

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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.
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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.
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How do I use the adjustment brush to mask and not turn my item green?

I have shot some products for my web site. I need completely white backgrounds. I have tried to mask the product and lighten the whites, but when I click done, my product has turned very green.
Why? How do you use the brush? Also, where is the invert to make this easier on me?
Kind of urgent, I need to get these items on my site already.
I know the answer is simple... I just don't know what it is.
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Have you tried without the adjustment brush, by simply adjusting white balance from the basic tab in develop?
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HELP! Lightroom Crashes Only with Adjustment Brush and only when using HDMI output!

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Open Gradient Tool - M
Show/hide Pin - H
Always Show - Shift + Cmd/Ctrl+H
Show Selected/Never Show - Shift+H
To increase Amount - Right Arrow
To decrease Amount - Left Arrow
To increase/decrease brush size - ] / [
To increase/decrease feather - Shift+] / Shift+[
Set Flow Amount - Number Keys
To commit and/or start new a brush stroke or gradient - Enter / Return
To delete the selected pin - Delete
Holding down - Alt/Option key activates erase mode
Toggle Auto Mask On/Off - A
Pressing O toggles on/off the overlay
Shift+O cylces through alternative colours for overlay
To constrain gradient to vertical/horizontal - hold down Shift plus drag
To invert the gradient - '
To scale from center - Alt/Option plus drag

Since updating to v.3.4.5 adjustment brushes no longer work? Please help??

Hi Guys,
I have just updated to Aperture 3.4.5.
Annoyingly the adjustment brushes and sliders such as "straighten" no longer work. They are added to my adjustments panel when I select them from the drop-down menu, but are accompanied by the sound of the dreaded apple beep (suggesting something is wrong) and do not change the cursor into the appropriate tool, thus preventing me from carrying out these particular adjustments.
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Test again in a different user account with a small test library. Does it still not work for a different user after reinstalling?
And test in your regular account with a small test library.
is it possibly something to do with an incombatiability between the new update and a plug-in?
Which plug-ins are you using? Are they all compatible with Aperture 3.4 and Lion?
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Saw your note in the other thread.
I needed to test this; I don't use the Adjustment Brush much, so I wouldn't have noticed it.
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Hover over right pin:
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With Camera Raw 7.2, I see this:
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Hover over right pin:
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-Noel

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Sorry,
My post above should have read Mac Pro. I recently switched and keep getting the names mixed up. Doesn't help that they look the same.
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Hard to provide verbal examples, but I'll try to suggest what I see.
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Joe Klien,
You obviously haven't worked with NX2 enough to even make a judgment on its advanced local corrections through a set of u_point tools, including a selection u-point, gradient, paintbrush, region mask defining tools, etc, in addition to the color u_points, all of which are certainly more flexible and faster with respect to workflow speed than the present basic paintbrush and gradient in LR2. LR is just getting into the non destructive local corrections area, so I'm sure LR3 will provide more advanced tools.
LR2 does run circles around NX2 in some respects, batch processing for example,just not at NEF conversion and editing, and LR2 is a cataloging program, whereas NX2 is browser based and strictly a NEF Raw processor--although it will do jpegs and tifs as well. NX2 is a specialized toolset designed to maximize the use of Nikon proprietary camera information and to edit its images. ( And, it finally has speed comparable to its competitors.)
Don't take my word for it, go to Moose Petersen's site and watch how a very well known pro uses NX2. He will give you a brief introduction to how quickly you can work with NX2 with a couple of basic uses. Watch his videos on NX2 at the bottom of the page.
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http://www.moosepeterson.com/D3/media_center.html#

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Hi Eric
Thanks for your reply
I've had another look at it... whenever I have a negative exposure setting on the brush or gradient and apply it anywhere in the image it seems to affect the top end highlights throughout the image even if they haven't been clicked on.
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Look forward to hearing from you.
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