Lightroom 4. Adjustment brush.

The adjustment brush only paints red. The color cannot be changed. Can I somehow reset?

Turn it off hit O on your keyboard.
To change the colour SHIFT-O
Frans

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I an get the pen pressure to work in Photoshop without any problem. However, if I go into Lightroom and use the Local Adjustment Brush and then transfer the photo into Photoshop (Right Click Edit In => Edit in Adobe Photoshop 2014 CC) then the pen pressure stops working in Photoshop.
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Was editing an image in the develop module, applied the adjustment brush for saturation to the sky area, then pressed the "O" key to see the brushed area and Lightroom 4 crashed. The adjustment brush was set for 100% flow and auto masking with only the saturation slider adjusted to +12. I restarted Lightroom and brought up the same image and went to apply an adjustment brush, but as soon as I clicked on the brush Lightroom locked up and I got the following weirdness on my screen:
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Message was edited by: batracy

Ok, after further testing I have found the following:
1) If I close all other applications, I don't get the weird little black box that looks like a media player. I had Outlook 2007 open previously.
2) Any use of the adjustment brush fails to set an anchor point and causes Lightroom to stop responding.
3) Any use of the "O" key to show the brush strokes will cause Lightroom to hang.
4) Any adjustments have a noticeable lag between making the adjustment and seeing it on the screen.
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Intel Core2 Dual CPU running 2.6Mhz
4GB memory
Nvidia GeForce Graphics card
Over 1TB of disk space
Lightroom 3.6 running amazingly well for me - no lag time unless the file size exceeds 1.5GB which most of the time my images are smaller than that.
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Lightroom 5 Adjustment Brush has disappeared, just the cursor shows. I have no idea what size I'm using. Just happened for no reason. Looked in the Pref and nothing there to adjust etc.

Just using the adjustment brush in Lightroom 5 on an image and suddenly the brush circles vanished lmao!!!!!! Can't find anywhere to get back, thought maybe I had touched a button by accident turning it off or something. All I get is the mouse cursor although I can use the brush but I have no idea how big the brush is or where the hell the brush is being used! Tried closing the Application and relaunching as you do and nothing changes, still no brush.
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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
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HELP! Lightroom Crashes Only with Adjustment Brush and only when using HDMI output!

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You have switched the overlay mask to always show. Fortunately, it's easy fixed i.e. tap the O key. Shift+O will cycle the overlay through various colours
Other Adjustment Brush and Graduate Filter shortcuts and modifiers are listed them below:
Open Adjustment Brush - K
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

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Ian, thank you! It was indeed Density that did the trick. I mistakenly thought Density had nothing to do with it, because you have to set it before you create a new brush stroke. (Each individual stroke of a particular adjustment brush can have a different Density value, along with the other Brush attributes like Size.) So I was changing it for my existing brush strokes, foolishly expecting it to work like the Effect sliders, and seeing no effect.
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I need help with the adjustment brush.

When I first started using Lightroom, the adjustment brush worked fine. Now, I will select the adjustment brush, click on the photo I'm editing, and a red circle will appear depending on the circumference I chose. If I look at the thumbnail in the navigation sidebar to the left, the red circle appears as a black circle in that photo. In addition, none of the sliders will work with the exception of the exposure adjuster. However, the effects of adjusting the exposure only appear in the thumbnail in the navigation sidebar; the main image will stay red in the area selected. Does anybody have a clue how to fix this?

Press the [o] key (overlay) to make the red overlay disappear. The black that appears in your thumbnail is likely caused by a very high negative exposure value for the brush. It also sounds like you have the Adjustment Brush panel partially collapesed. On the same line as the word Effect: on the right side is a small black triangle, click on it to expand. These are the sliders that go with the brush - not hte sliders in the basic panel which I suspect you are using.

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http://imaging.nikon.com/lineup/dslr/d800/features01.htm
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