Brushes not brushing

my brushes or any tool that is suppose to draw a line or paint something in, are not working, it makes a dot and thats it. So if I'm trying to draw a simple line I would have to click my mouse several times instead of just once and dragging the mouse.

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I have a lot of standard brushes that came with the CC brush library that are not working with any of the programs they come with. When I hover over the brushes they say "Type: Sketch Brush This brush format is not supported by Photoshop/Illustrator"
So where can I use these brushes then? I would like to create brushes using the Adobe Brush CC program on my phone/tablet, but I can't use them in my programs. ... What am I doing wrong here?

They are probably brushes from Adobe Brush. You have to target them in Brush to either make them work in AI or Photoshop.
Here is more info:
Make custom Photoshop and Illustrator brushes | Adobe Brush CC

Local adjustment brush, not in XMP file

Local adjustment brush, not in XMP file
I shoot everything on location and make minor edits while on location. My location edits usually transfer with the XMP file. I used the new local adjustment tool while on location, however when I got back to my main workstation and transferred the images the local adjustments were not there. Can this be fixed somehow, as it would be nice to only make those edits only once? I do not use as a catalog program, once the job is complete it is removed from the lightroom catalog so again those local adjustments are gone.
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Mark

The problem may be and I am only guessing here that because no other program
currently supports the adjustment brush options that that information is not
added to XMP file. Not even Photoshop or ACR supports that as of yet. Though
I honestly would have expected that information to be there anyways it would
just be ignored by programs that don't know what to do with (basically
everything but LR 2.0).
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Hi I am new to Lightroom. I was playing with the adjustment brush and have done something that has stopped it from doing selective edits. When i adjust exposure it adjusts the whole image and not my brush strokes, very frustrated trying to find what I have done to upset it. can anyone tell me what I may have done wrong and how can I rectify it.
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You may have inadvertently closed the brush by clicking on its icon on the control panel. If the brush is active, you should see the round button on your image where you first applied the brush.
If this is the case, just click on the Adjustment Brush icon again, and then on the round button on your image to select the previous brush, if there is one, or just create a new one by brushing on the image.
Also, make sure you did not accidentally click on Invert Mask - this would make all adjustments affect the areas that you did not brush.
You can see the area that will be affected by the brush settings if you press the letter O on your keyboard while the brush is active. It will turn the selected areas red.

Brush tool appears as a brush not a circle!!!

The title says it all. My brush tool cursor is a brush not the circle.
HELP, i have heard of color select(Alt) and crosshairs(CAPSLOCK) brush cursors but have not heard of a picture of a brush as my cursor!!!!
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What do you have set in Edit - Preferences - Cursors? Standard, I'll bet.
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-Noel

Adjustment brush bugged? Image areas not brushed over change nevertheless

Problem:
I used the adjustment brush to brighten up an area in an image (+0.2 exposure). Doing so, a nearby but not connected area and not touched by the brush brightened up as well, going from almost blown out to blown out as shown by the red warning overlay.
System:
Pentium i5 machine, Windows 7 home premium 64 bit, 8 GB RAM
Lightroom 3.3 64 bit
Here are some illustrations:
before applying the brush (note the blue are near the upper edge not yet blown out)
I am applying the brush here (note area marked in red, not touching the blue almost blown out part near the top edge):
And this is what happens to the blue area when applying the brush:
The funny thing is, when I hover the cursor over the brush pin (as in the second picture above), the blue area to the top left is NOT marked blown out (as can be seen in the second picture).
Something strange is going on here. Either the red 'blown out' overlay is not functioning correctly in this situation, or the adjustment brush is bugged. It should obviously not have any effect on areas that have not been brushed over.
Any thoughts?
Christian

CASpyr wrote:
Thanks Lee Jay for the quick reply. I did search before posting but apparently have not used the right terms.
It seems this is known for quite a while. Has Adobe made any statement on a workaround or that this is being fixed?
I understand this is something occurring in unusual circumstances only but still, it's a bug....
I think the problem is that they cannot reproduce the issue, hence no fix yet.

CC Bridge slow-. adjustment brushes not showing size, adjustments when done blind are slow to react

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adjustment brushes not showing size, adjustments when done blind are slow to react.

Bridge is far more than a file browser.   Bridge does what lightroom does.
When working with Raw files, there are tools,   **adjustment brushes** that allow you to dodge and burn raw files.
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Are opacity and flow each 100% for the brush?
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Hi,
I'm looking for free vector brush strokes. Not brushes, but actual pre-drawn brush strokes, in vector format (looks something like this).
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If those are vector shapes, they'd need a million points each!
This claims to be a Shape though, and they pretty rough round the edges.
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Google Photoshop "Brush Shapes". The quotes should make a difference.

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can any one explain technically ...
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Load all brushes in brush preset folder at startup

I'm wondering if this is possible or if there is a better solution for what I'm trying to do.
What I need to do is have a central repository of brushes or brush sets. I'll create a symlink inside the brushes folder to a space in the local drive. When photoshop is launched, we have scripts in place that will download the newest version of the repository folder to that local drive. (the users do not have permissions for the program files brushes folder) Is there a way to have photoshop load all the brushes automatically without a user having to select a set of brushes and save them?
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And here is the script to go with c.pfaffenbichler's suggestion.
// first make a path to the folde where the brushes are stored
// the user data folder does not need admin rights to read/write
var USER_PRESETS_FOLDER =
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for(var b = 0; b < brushFiles.length; b++ ) {
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Photoshop CS4 Brushes not Anti Aliasing properly

I've just set up CS4 and my brushes are not anti aliasing properly. There are no soft edges on any of them. I'm able to get a pressure sensitive opacity change on the stroke but the edges are all pixelated.
Here is an image (this is a soft brush. notice none of the feathering/anti aliasing is there):
http://craji.com/images/adobeproblem.jpg
I've updated the newest gpu drivers for my Nvidia 8800 GTS.
I'm running XP SP3 with dual monitors. An Apple 30" and a Cintiq 21"
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Any help (even linking me to something similar in this forum) is greatly appreciated.
Cheers-

Definitely not file dependent. I'll open a photo in sRGB 8bit, or create a new document with any settings from cmyk/rgb/bw 8/16 etc.
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Lightroom 5.5 for Mac Adjustment Brush not working

Hi all, since updating to Lightroom 5.5 for Mac Adjustment Brush has stopped working entirely. I can open the menu and it does display the brush within the menu. When dragging the tool into the image it changes to the mouse arrow which doesn't have any function. Any ideas? Thank you very much for your help. Chris

And- do you actually press or hold down the left-mouse button and drag the cursor on the image? as you would a paint brush. A 'Pin' will appear where you start the brush stroke.
And- Is it possible that you have the switch at the base of the brush panel sliders turned off ? (The toggle switch on the same line as "Reset" and "Close")
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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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