Invert ACR Adjustment Brush Mask?

Is it possible to invert a mask created with the ACR adjustment brush?
I want to make an adjustment to everything except what I paint with the adjustment brush (with auto mask turned on). I know how to invert a selection in Photoshop, but don't know if it is possible in ACR. I'm using ACR version 8.2. on W7

Jeff, Thank you for the clarification. Hopefully Adobe will add the functionality some day. Theoretically, I'd prefer to do most of my lighting adjustments in ACR for a number of reasons, but the ACR tools seem generally less polished than Photoshop. The ACR Adjustment Brush in auto mode seems easier to use than the Photoshop selection tools like the Quick Selection Tool, but not being able to invert is a significant handicap.

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I just ran into this. I've used the adjustment brush with no issues previously. But today, when I apply an adjustment it immediately paints with the mask on. And I cannot seem to turn it off. What I want to see is how the adjustment is applied, not the mask. Hovering over the pin does nothing. The mask is on -- period -- and cannot be turned off.

@mavory: I have seen the same thing happen as well. Already applied a crop to an image and then looking at it later in the Develop Module it goes into "crop mode" and I have to reapply it.
@Lee Jay: Yes, that works. But I have to hit O two or three times for it to remove the mask. Then if I hover over the pin again, the mask reappears and does not disappear when I move the cursor away. Again, I have to hit O two or three times for it to remove the mask. Very annoying. And I never had to hit O in LR2, so what's the deal? Looks like a bug to me.

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It is clumsy but:
go to top of brush panel and double click on the "minus sign" just to the left of the exposure slider. This will reset everything but exposure. Then you must double click on the exposure slider itself to reset exposure. Of course, this is for the currently active brush.
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I'm making pretty liberal use of the adjustment brush in a series of photos in LR2, and I'm getting the weirdest thing: as I leaf through my gallery and make these adjustments, then go back and view previously adjusted images, I'm getting a whole lot of retouched areas showing up in images THAT I DID NOT PUT THERE. This is the weirdest thing. The Adjustment brush mask shows lots of random spots where it looks like the adjustment brush has been used, but I didn't put them there. And they keep showing up in different images. It's getting kind of ridiculous because they keep showing up in random images without my putting them there, and it's wasting a lot of my time. Has anybody experienced this?

Two possibilites for this happening. The first is that you haved had multiple images selected and applied the Sync Settings command. Alternatively, you have had multiple images selected and Auto Sync enabled while applying the brush with th result that every selected image will have the brush adjustment applied. I suggest you select a few images in Develop module then go to the two buttons located at the bottom of the Develop adjustments panel. If the left button is set to Auto Sync then this is very likley the source of your problem. I suggest that you switch it off to avoid the problem reoccuring. With Lr2 you need to hold down the Ctrl/Cmd key while clicking on the button

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.
Thanks

Have you tried without the adjustment brush, by simply adjusting white balance from the basic tab in develop?
Click on the eye dropper tool and then click on a neutral gray color. Use the background if it is neutral rather than white. You may need to keep selecting the eye dropper to click in a few different places for best results.
If you decide to use the adjustment brush you can show or hide the mask. Uncheck the mask when you have finished painting; then use the sliders, starting with tint and temperature.

Bug ACR 7.2 adjustment brush previews

I realize this is a redundant post - I want to make sure someone at Adobe notices. Adjustment brush previews are turning off when you hover the cursor over the edit pin, and stay off until off until you hover cursor over another pin. Neil Carboni took the time to make screen shots that show the problem. See previous post and my Windows 7 x64 specs at http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1083526?tstart=0
The Adjustment brush previews work as expected so long the Show Mask option is checked AND one of the of the Adjustment Brush pins is selected; so one mask is always showing.
For example, when a previously edited image is first re-opened in ACR, no brush pins are selected (Show Mask can be checked). If I hover my cursor over one of the pins (for example I have 6 brush adjustments) the mask flashes on for the associated edit, as expected. When I move the cursor away, the edit preview disappears as if the edit never happened, but the pin remains. I then select one of the pins by clicking on it to make that edit live. Now when I move my cursor over a pin the mask for that pin flashes on, when I move the cursor away from that pin the preview of the edit is showing. Now the preview works for any brush edit.
Makes working with multiple adjustment brushes extremely difficult - not always sure if the results of a previous edit are showing. Have to constantly move my cursor and hover it over another brush pin to verify that I am seeing results of previous edit. If the preview is not showing, as soon as I put down the brush on that edit, the preview springs to life. I do not see this problem using ACR 7.1 on my Vista x64 machine.
As my previous post indicates, I have updated the driver on my FirePro V4900, uninstalled and reinstalled Photoshop, etc. Did not see the problem after I reinstalled Photoshop and briefly used ACR 7. Problem came back once I updated.

Well, for one, the current version of ACR is 8.3 by now.
More information would be needed about your system before troubleshooting steps can be suggested.
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Adjustment brush in ACR slow

I'm finding the adjustment brush to be slow to take affect. There is a delay between making the brush stroke and seeing the adjustment occur. It starts out with a short delay, but increases with each stroke to the point where it takes 6-10 seconds after the brush stroke for the adjustment to show.
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Hello
As far as I can see, both the video and audio editing world are already using non destructive editing and the files can be huge for video, so Photoshop will evolve in that direction also.
The operations in ACR are just mask overlays, which are not really that complex, even though the xmp are large, but in the most complex one I have been using, it is only 157kb.It is a vector layer, whose mathematical description is held in the xmp.
A comparable 8 bit mask as a channel in Photoshop would be 12mb in a 36mb uncompressed image.
It is also the reason why CS4 has so many types of adjustment layers and filter layers. That is exactly what a mask in ACR is acting as,in other words a local adjustment layer.
Many years ago there was a very good application called Picture Publisher, that recorded all pixel and layer operations as an editable text file, on a low res copy of the main image. The final compilation was rendered using the same text file on the full size image. The main problem with that the application was not accurate enough.It had a rounding error, so in certain circumstances 1000 pixels turned into 999 pixels. This as you could imagine would make some truly amazing final images, but not quite what was intended.
I am sure that ACR will evolve and have quite extensive masking operations. There is a requirement to be able run a slide show in Bridge, with all images corrected this way and without having to use Photoshop proper, one image at a time.
Adobe might also finally conclude that Lightroom will be redundant
I can wait!
Mike Engles

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Can anyone with experience with both programs comment on the performance (speed) of this brush between the two? I find the one in lighroom 2 slow as molasses, bordering on unusable, even after I found all the hardware/driver fixes to make it faster for my system.
Is the one in Camera Raw 5 any faster?

Hello
As far as I can see, both the video and audio editing world are already using non destructive editing and the files can be huge for video, so Photoshop will evolve in that direction also.
The operations in ACR are just mask overlays, which are not really that complex, even though the xmp are large, but in the most complex one I have been using, it is only 157kb.It is a vector layer, whose mathematical description is held in the xmp.
A comparable 8 bit mask as a channel in Photoshop would be 12mb in a 36mb uncompressed image.
It is also the reason why CS4 has so many types of adjustment layers and filter layers. That is exactly what a mask in ACR is acting as,in other words a local adjustment layer.
Many years ago there was a very good application called Picture Publisher, that recorded all pixel and layer operations as an editable text file, on a low res copy of the main image. The final compilation was rendered using the same text file on the full size image. The main problem with that the application was not accurate enough.It had a rounding error, so in certain circumstances 1000 pixels turned into 999 pixels. This as you could imagine would make some truly amazing final images, but not quite what was intended.
I am sure that ACR will evolve and have quite extensive masking operations. There is a requirement to be able run a slide show in Bridge, with all images corrected this way and without having to use Photoshop proper, one image at a time.
Adobe might also finally conclude that Lightroom will be redundant
I can wait!
Mike Engles

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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.
When I HAVE used the Adjustment Brush in the past - though quite possibly never in 7.2 as I reverted back to 7.0 for other reasons - as I would hover over a pin it would put a white "fog" over the image to show where the adjustments are effective.
I've just done a test where I created two obvious adjustments with the Adjustment Brush in the shape of A B on the top of a dark image. A and B each use different pins. I then chose [Done] to save the adjustments.
With Camera Raw 7.0, when I open that image back up I see the adjustments, and when I select the Adjustment Brush and hover over each of the pins I see following:
Open Image:
Select Adjustment Brush:
Hover over left pin:
Hover over right pin:
Move cursor off right pin:
With Camera Raw 7.2, I see this:
Open Image:
Select Adjustment Brush:
Hover over left pin:
Hover over right pin:
Move cursor off right pin:
Yep, looks like a bug all right.
-Noel

Missing adjustment brush in ACR

I have PS CS6 with the latest updates, using a Mac Pro computer with OS 10.7 also with the latest updates. When in ACR, the adjustment brush does not appear on the screen unless I click the bracket keys which increase or decrease the size of the brush. If I paint a segment and the let go of the brush key, the brush disappears again. The adjustment effects work properly once I have brought up the brush by pressing the bracket key. I have to keep re pressing the bracket key if I am painting adjustments on multiple parts of the photo. I have restarted Photoshop and the computer numerous times, thrown away and reset the preferences for both Photoshop, Camera Raw, and Bridge, as well as repairing disk permissions on my Mac. Any suggestions?

If it was a PC I'd suggest seeking an updated display driver, because a missing or partial cursor is a pretty well-known sign of a display driver glitch. As it is a Mac you pretty much have to wait for a display driver to come in with an OS update. You might want to let Apple know that it's doing what you're seeing with your particular hardware.
-Noel

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When I try to brush in an effect with the Adjustment Brush, all I see is the red mask that is created, not the effect. When I click 'Close' I see the effect, but can't see any real time adjustments while editing it. If I hover over the effect circle (which has a black center), the brush changes to some sort of double arrow pointer, but clicking on it has no effect.

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This may have been answered before but I searched Google and such with no luck to finding an answer or unsure of what exactly to search as.
Basically Im curious to know if you edit a photo in Lightroom and use the adjustment brush to desaturate the background of a photo for example, then want to export and do further editing in Photoshop, is it possible to do so and have the adjustment brush effects as a mask or layer of sorts to then easily edit in Photoshop?
Since the adjustment brush feature in Lightroom automatically creates a mask I thought I would be useful to import into photoshop and still retail the mask somehow making it easy to isolate that area masked out.
Thanks.

Thanks, bit of a shame, I do prefer the ease of how LR masks out the areas easily with the brushes.
I could do it manually in PS but takes some time.
I've seen a few plugins for layers within LR but I think its an external type app run via LR (OnOne Software makes it) but I doubt it'll do what I want from the looks.

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I appreciate any and all help with this issue.
When I use the adjustment brush in LR 3.3 with the auto mask selected I get a speckled result. If I deslect the auto mask it works fine. I was hoping that 3.3 update would fix the issue but no luck.
My OS is Vista 64bit
thanks for your time.
Dave

+1 vote.
Auto-mask has great potential, but is not quite there yet...
I'd like to see a little more control - what exactly you are trying to mask, and what not... - ya now: some tolerances/thresholds for color and luminosity and texture... - and maybe the ability to enhance the edges after the fact.
R

Adjustment brush auto mask broken for 32bit TIFF image

Hello,
I am using Lightroom 4.2 (updated today) on Windows 7 64bit. I have an issue using the adjustment brush with the option "Auto Mask" within a 32 bit TIFF file: the Auto Mask magic there does not work.
I've created 32 bit TIFF files using the "merge to HDR Pro in Photoshop" workflow, where the resulting TIFF is automatically added back to Lightroom. There, I edit the TIFF just in the same way as I edit any other picture in Lightroom. Some of my TIFF files have very clear edges with high contrast. Example:
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+1 vote.
Auto-mask has great potential, but is not quite there yet...
I'd like to see a little more control - what exactly you are trying to mask, and what not... - ya now: some tolerances/thresholds for color and luminosity and texture... - and maybe the ability to enhance the edges after the fact.
R

Use brush mask with another adjustment brick?

Hi. I'm pretty sure this is not possible, but I want to make sure and find out if anyone has a work-around.
Is there any way to re-use a mask created for one adjustment brick with another?
This would, IMHO, double the usefulness of the program. (I can't really understand why it is not included.)

You cannot from within Aperture but you can... if you feel like going into the guts of the library. The brush masks are stored as simple tiff files if you create and adjustment and brush any old mask the tiff file will be created - copy the mask you want to the same file name as the mask you just created and viola = reused mask. Not a simple and easy solution.
Much easier just to use PS IMO
RB

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