Lightroom 4 - Spot removal and adjustment brush issues

In Lightroom 4, my spot removal and adjustment brush tools will not work on all areas of photos (in particular faces and the center of photos). The cursor seems to show the tool only on the outside portions of the photo. Any suggestions?

I have seen this a couple time and a restart of Lr has always fixed it. It seems like there is some kine of dialog box waiting for input "hidden" behind Lr as it its not there if you minimize Lr. This has been reported many times for a LONG time so it is probably one of the Lr bugs that is not getting fixed. To be fair to Adobe, if someone could reproduce this problem it might get fixed but it seems to be pretty obscure. BTW, I think Ihave seen reports of it in Lr5 also so hopefully it will get fixed in Lr 6

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In this episode of The Complete Picture, discover the power of making selective adjustments like dodging and burning, color corrections and noise removal using the Graduated Filter and Adjustment Brush in Lightroom 4. Note: although this video was recorded in Lightroom, the same techniques are available in Adobe Camera Raw in Photoshop CS6.
http://adobe.ly/QPYXzm

Julianne is a great tutor but the picture behind her head is distracting.
Tom Torda

Graduated filter and Adjustment brush always use "last used effect"

In my workfow I mostly use opposite effects in the Graduated filter and Adjustment brush.
Lightroom maintains "least used effect" even when changing tools.
Is it possible that each tool retains its last used effect?
In my workflow I mostly use opposite effects when using Adjustment brush en gradient filter. Changing the effects wastes a lot of time when editing hundreds of images.

I agree that it would be nice if the individual tools remembered their own last used preset.
Unfortunately LR does not work that way.

2.1 and Adjustment Brush Prob Return

Ironically, after having fixed adjustment brush lag and slider sluggishness by maximizing performance in the Nvidia 3d settings, installing 2.1 has caused the problem to return.
The problem was completely resolved before. I could rapidly paint large areas of D300 images with repeated strokes, or with one extended very rapid uninterrupted stroke back and forth across an area stretching from side to side and representing about one third of the screen.
Before upgrading there was absolutely no lag or subsequent sluggishness in the amount slider no matter how hard I tried to induce it. Now, the slider sluggishness is as bad as before.
I have tested this by resetting half a dozen of the same images that I worked the brush on prior to the upgrade to RC 2.1 and performing the same actions with the brush as described above. I have 2.0 installed on the other side of my dual boot windows Intel 9550 Quad and there is no lag on that side with the same images and adjustment brush use described above.
There is no doubt that the problem is back.
Has anyone who had 2.0 adjustment brush problems tested 2.1 yet?

LR2.1 not stable for me. XPS630, 4G, XP Pro, nVidia 8600,
LR 2 worked fine.
Adjustment brush (using Wacom or mouse) doesn't lift reliably and leaves streaks.
Brush at times will activate zoom instead of painting an adjustment.
Brush won't stop editing session - can't start new brush - no edit control point for previous adjustment brushes
Have restarted LR2.1 numerous times, rebooted, etc.
I'm going back to 2.0 tomorrow.

HELP! Lightroom Crashes Only with Adjustment Brush and only when using HDMI output!

This is very frustrating. I use my Acer N56V laptop to teach Lightroom workshops. I use a 32 inch television as a display. When I have my laptop attached with an HDMI cable and try to use Lightroom's adjustment brush, it crashes. Either the screen and computer just shuts down or I get the Blue Screen of Death. I can do anything else! I can edit in Photoshop, do anything else in Lightroom or even Silver EFX Pro. I can even click on the adjustment brush. But the minute the brush hits the photo (and not before), the computer crashes. If I don't have it attached to the HDMI or if I use a Serial cable, no issues. It's only the adjustment brush and only the HDMI output.
I called Adobe and they said it was because my onboard video card was primary and not the Nvidia. I called Acer and they said it's auto detect. I also tried making the Nvidia card primary and it still happened. Any ideas???

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

Spot remover tool / healing brush. How do I get the brush to show up and work??

It seems I can only get the spot remover tool to work on certain photos and in certain areas of said photos . On the one picture I really need this for--where the problem started--I had used it once without much success (it was working then, but I didn't do it right). So I left the picture and worked on another. When I came back to the first picture, I brought up an earlier version of it, before the initial spot removal, to work on. Now I can't get the brush to even show up on the frame, although other tools are working fine. I've checked on other pictures and it seems that many times the spot remover brush won't show up. WhY???

Great. There are other keyboard shortcuts when using this tool like the forward slash key and holding down shift if cloning an area that is a straight line. And don’t forget you can click on the word reset. Take a look at this short video tutorial from Adobe TV.
http://tv.adobe.com/watch/adobe-evangelists-julieanne-kost/lightroom-5-advanced-healing-br ush-and-visualization-tool/

Lightroom 2.4 Adjustment Brush issue

I currently use Windows XP home and Lightroom 2.4 updated within the last two weeks. When I use the Adjustment Brush it creates the ruby lith mask over the image and dose not show any interactive live adjustments as I've seen on many of the on-line tutorials. Only after I've clicked the close button or the Adjustment Brush are the changes made. I then have to reselect the Adjustment Brush click the appropriate pin and get the same ruby lith mask and repeat the process time and again to achive the results I want. I have the original 2.2 version on my laptop an it works as per the tutorials. Any pointers as to where I am going wrong would be welcome.

On Mac ctrl +h hide\show pins, o - shows mask, shift + o changes color of the mask

Issue with Clone Tool and Adjustment Brush in LR5.3

If I export a .TIFF from LR5.3 in which I've used the Clone Tool or Adjustment Brush Tool and then load the .TIFF up in Photoshop CS2 to perform further edits, I can't save the file to a .JPG - I get a '...program error...' message during the save. If I turn off the tool and export the file from LR5 again, I can do the edits in Photoshop and save it as a .jpg. The same thing will happen in Capture NX2 trying to save the LR5 exported .TIFF to .JPG. Has anyone else experienced this and are there any workarounds?

***UPDATE*** 3/7/14
Apparently no one has experienced the issue as I posted above, but in case anyone is interested, I have discovered a workaround. For some reason, the issue manifests itself when I export the TIFF with the option 'Metadata - Include All Metadata'. If I change the Metadata option to the 'Copyright Only' or 'Copyright & Contact Info Only' I am able to open the TIFF in Photoshop, make edits as needed, and then save as a JPG. Apparently LR5 is doing something weird with the Metadata file header that Photoshop and Capture NX2 doesn't like under certain circumstances.

Lens corrections and adjustment brush bug

First of all, congratulations for a spectacular implementation of these seemingly "conflicting" (at least in a non-destructive workflow) features.
Here, I got a fish-eye image where I want to paint the sky (say I want to make it darker). For the beginning, I just define the borderline between the earth and the sky.
Apply a lens correction and you get this:
Fantastic! The brush stroke got distorted almost perfectly. "Almost", because if you make a single brush click, painting a circle, it doesn't get distorted with lens corrections, turning into an ellipse (though the spot removal circles do). Instead all brush path point coordinates get recalculated along with the radius of the brush at each particular location. This works very well in real world even for extreme examples like de-fisheyeing. For rectilinear lenses, the difference is imperceptible.
And now, some bugs/limitations.
If you use a large brush, say I want to fill the whole sky in this example, things get a little more complicated.
Turn on lens corrections and...
The thick stroke gets distorted in a way that fill almost the entire image. This happens on extreme debarreling only. For normal lenses, it's a non-issue.
Also, sometimes I get a strange artifact in preview only. The exported image doesn't have this solid rectangle:
And a final, smaller, issue: for strong corrections like de-fisheye-ing, the brush pin easily gets lost outside the image area after you apply lens corrections.

While we do the best we can mapping the local corrections, it is not perfect if you adjust the lens corrections after applying them, as you can see in some of your extreme examples.
In the future, when processing new images, if you apply the lens corrections first, and then the local corrections, you completely avoid these remapping issues.

Spot Removal and slow system after a few clicks

Hello All,
I just wanted to bring attention to a very annoying issue. If you use spot removal function a few times in a lightroom session, you end up with the impossibility to use it anymore if you do not exit lightroom and start again from zero.
What I mean is that after a few clicks on spot removal on 2-3 pictures, when you need to use it again on picture number 4, for example, the function is almost unusable (very slow movements that make impossible to put the spot tool in the right place).
If you then exit lightroom and start again everythimg is fine for a while. It seems it is allocating memory each time you use it....anybody having the same problem? Any idea how to solve it? I have been dealing with this since previous versions and it has never ben solved (if it is indeed a bug!).
Thanks all!
Cristiano

Hi Hans,
yes, I guess we'll have to wait...
I have worked with lightroom in the past and then moved to NX2 for a couple of months because I was loving the picture control correspondance with my raw files....then I was so desperate that I moved back to LR. NX2 was too slow and a very bad piece of software for me...altough I will keep an eye to future releases.
I am on a Mac.
Thanks!
Cristiano

Adjustment Brush issue over Windows 7

I’m using Windows 7 and Lightroom 2.5 and I’m having some issues with the “Adjustment brush”.
The brush cursor is not well drawn.
I get like “half circle and half plus”.
Or, I get multiple cursors: like 3 or 4.
The tool works ok, but the cursor is terrible.
Also, this issue only happens at some brush and feather size. In the huge and in the smallest ones doesn't happens.
Any ideas?
BTW, also happened with the 2.4 version.

The most likely cause is a video card driver issue. For example, Lightroom and the nVidia Desktop nView control panel don't play well together. If using an nVidia card it might be worth changing the settings from Quality to Performance or vice versa (can'\t recall which). Also check that you have the most up to date video card driver.

BUG! lightroom 3.4.1 Adjustment Brush Doesn't Show It's "Button" Anymore

Adjustment Brush Doesn't Show It's "Button" Anymore:
I installed the update for 3.4.1 and warm re-booted my computer.
The button that you saw after painting (releasing the mouse button), is no longer there.
There is nothing to hover over to see what area you painted and if you Close the brush, and reopen it, the button does not appear.
HALP!

Disregard my second message about not understanding your email reply.
I thought I had to hit "H" to see a link -on the email- to confirm my registration.
I didn't realize it was your answer.
Since I had just installed my 3.4.1 update and the default on my installed version of LR, and since my 'pins' have never been hidden, the 3.4.1 default of hiding the pins was a problem and is likely to fool a lot of users that hadn't read about hiding those pins yet. Shouldn't the installation of -any- new version, pick up the defaults currently in LR? That is an issue.
We're good now.
Thanks for the response.
Michael

LR6 Soften Skin adjustment brush issue

Anyone having problems with the Soften Skin adjustment brush in LR6 for very backlit photos? Mine is showing as very dark since upgrading my catalogue from LR5 and I can't get it to blend in with the skin tones now. Thank you!

Hi,
EDIT and delete my post to replace it with this:
I JUST FOUND THE ANSWER!
See this post:
http://forums.adobe.com/message/1465984#1465984
Don says: "In Develop press K for Adjustment Brush (or click the Brush Icon). The it appears in the drop down menu next to Effect: that defaults to Exposure and has a small set of up and down arrows to the right of it. Soften Skin is last after a divider. It also appears (????) there for Graduated Filter (M). "
In my case, I was looking in the wrong place for the preset. It is not in the list of presets in the left column. Instead, it is in the Effects dropdown right in the Adjustment Brush palette.
John

Spot Removal and Clone Stamp data

I understand that Ver 1.0 includes "non destructive" spot removal, clone stamp etc. How is this data stored? While I understand how image adjustments are stored as metadata in an XMP sidecar or DNG, if this data is simple text, how can changes to image content also be be stored in these files? As a new version of the RAW image data?

> "I hadn't realised that metadata could support such functions".
If you want further thoughts on what metadata could do in future, think of actions in Photoshop.
Imagine that you ran an action as you were editing a file, then instead of saving the changed image, you saved the original image with the action embedded in the file. Then, when you opened the file in future, Ps automatically ran the action. That would be an example of non-destructive order-dependent metadata.
Unfortunately, the restrictions on actions, such as not including brush-use, limits the value of such a method. But it is a way of thinking about this topic. (Note that Lr 1.0 holds the brush size in the clone/heal metadata, while Photoshop can't hold brush-use in actions! In that case, Lr is already ahead of Ps).
A very powerful feature of Ps is the layer mask. Being a greyscale image, it would not fit well into XMP metadata. Perhaps this is an example where Lr will "never" catch up. (Never say never!)
I've seen several people ask for localised editing in Lr. There are various possibilities for making selections for local editing other than using the full power of layer masks. In fact, a number of the standard ways of creating selections appear to have relatively simple parameters. (Standard marquee tools, select color range, etc. Even refine edges). But a Lr with too many of those in would compete strongly with Ps itself! Perhaps this will be driven by what the natural competitors to Lr do in future.

First experiences with LR 5.0: manual file selection and Adjustment Brush

I must admit that I have not fiddled too long with LR 5.0. The reason is quite simple: its extreme slowness, even in comparison with 4.4, which is far from being fast. After slightly retouching some 40 images I fell back to 4.4 and finished testing 5.5 for a while. Anyway, in addition to the speed problem I have collected some - also not too promising - experiences:
After initially retouching the first image I wanted to copy some of its settings into the rest of the photos. Before clicking on the Sync button I had to select all the target files. Probably because of the relatively small number of images, instead of going to the "Edit / Select All" function I used "Shift+Right Arrow" for the selection. LR simply crashed...
In several cases I was not able to re-open and modify formerly 'adjustment-brushed' areas. When I moved the cursor above the relevant white 'knob-shaped' mark, nothing happened. The cursor did not even change to hand form, so the "Effect" panel remained dark and the formerly set parameters did not come up. As I kept the cursor there for ages and the image was not 'over-adjusted' (as also indicated by the small size of the associated XMP file), this failure was surely not a result of the above-referred slowness.
Once I selected an already retouched image, with the Adjustment Brush tool open. The existing adjustment mark came up over a formerly brushed area. Then, without doing anything with the open image, I moved to the next picture. To my surprise, the Adjustment Brush marks of both photos appeared on the last opened image - the one, which belonged to the previous picture and another, associated with the second picture. It goes without saying that I was not able to click on any of the Adjustment Brush marks. Closing and re-opening the Adjustment Brush tool did not help, so I had to restart LR.

I must admit that I have not fiddled too long with LR 5.0. The reason is quite simple: its extreme slowness, even in comparison with 4.4, which is far from being fast. After slightly retouching some 40 images I fell back to 4.4 and finished testing 5.5 for a while. Anyway, in addition to the speed problem I have collected some - also not too promising - experiences:
After initially retouching the first image I wanted to copy some of its settings into the rest of the photos. Before clicking on the Sync button I had to select all the target files. Probably because of the relatively small number of images, instead of going to the "Edit / Select All" function I used "Shift+Right Arrow" for the selection. LR simply crashed...
In several cases I was not able to re-open and modify formerly 'adjustment-brushed' areas. When I moved the cursor above the relevant white 'knob-shaped' mark, nothing happened. The cursor did not even change to hand form, so the "Effect" panel remained dark and the formerly set parameters did not come up. As I kept the cursor there for ages and the image was not 'over-adjusted' (as also indicated by the small size of the associated XMP file), this failure was surely not a result of the above-referred slowness.
Once I selected an already retouched image, with the Adjustment Brush tool open. The existing adjustment mark came up over a formerly brushed area. Then, without doing anything with the open image, I moved to the next picture. To my surprise, the Adjustment Brush marks of both photos appeared on the last opened image - the one, which belonged to the previous picture and another, associated with the second picture. It goes without saying that I was not able to click on any of the Adjustment Brush marks. Closing and re-opening the Adjustment Brush tool did not help, so I had to restart LR.

Lightroom 4 - Spot removal and adjustment brush issues

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