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Bob Somrak
Bob Somrak
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July 31, 2016

P: Adjustment brush stops working after deleting photo

  • July 31, 2016
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I have created a NEW post because of the MANY other posts about this problem.

I have seen several posts on the Lightroom forum and this Photoshop Family forum of the adjustment brush stops working.  Many of these were unsolved.   A recent post on the Lightroom forum has a REPEATABLE scenario to make the adjustment brush stop working. See here in posts #9, 10 and 11  https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2082068

The scenario is as follows and as the forum post shows happens on Windows and Mac.

Use the Adjustment Brush
Remove any photo - chose Delete from Disk
Adjustment brush stops working (no new pins, can't select old pins, nothing in history)
Select Spot Tool and create random spot/heal and immediately delete spot/heal
Select Adjustment Brush and the Adjustment Brush will start working again.

This behavior is completely REPEATABLE.

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    JimKiefer
    Participant
    September 23, 2016
    Hooray!!  Seems to be fixed now in 2015.7. 🙂 🙂 🙂
    J
    J453
    Legend
    September 20, 2016
    This issue should be addressed by today's update: http://blogs.adobe.com/lightroomjournal/2016/09/lightroom-cc-2015-7-now-available.html
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    JimKiefer
    Participant
    August 2, 2016
    Thanks Rikk!
    Bob Somrak
    Bob SomrakAuthor
    Legend
    August 1, 2016
    My system info is 

    2015 Imac I7 16gb ram SSD  OSX 10.11.6   LrCC2015.6.1

    2010 Imac 8gb ram Spinner HD   Recently did a CLEAN install of 10.11.6 and only programs are Photoshop CC and LrCC2015.6.1

    Both machines will reproduce the problem EVERY time I try it.

    At least the work-around is very easy : )
    M4 Pro Mac Mini. 48GB
    Rikk Flohr_Photography
    Community Manager
    Rikk Flohr_PhotographyCommunity Manager
    August 1, 2016
    I can repro this on Win10.  I will log it in. 
    Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org
    Jim Wilde
    Community Expert
    Jim WildeCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    August 1, 2016
    I had a go at producing the problem as well, Victoria, but without much success. I did once or twice get the Adjustment Brush to lock up, but with no repeatable pattern. In the main, on both OSX and Windows 10, everything worked as expected apart from those one or two lock-ups (though even with those the problem was easily cleared without having to restart anything). There's probably a bug in there, but as you say the engineers may have trouble finding it.
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    Anonymous
    August 1, 2016
     I'm not questioning that it's a bug. I just can't repeat it yet, and if I can't repeat it, then the engineers may well have problems doing so too - and if they can't repeat it in my logo design web, they can't fix it. There's obviously something different, but the trick will be figuring out what that is.
    Victoria Bampton LR Queen
    Community Expert
    Victoria Bampton LR QueenCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    August 1, 2016
    Don't worry, I'm not questioning that it's a bug. I just can't repeat it yet, and if I can't repeat it, then the engineers may well have problems doing so too - and if they can't repeat it, they can't fix it. There's obviously something different, but the trick will be figuring out what that is.
    Victoria - The Lightroom Queen
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    JimKiefer
    Participant
    August 1, 2016
    I'm having this same issue, for many months.  Steps to recreate:

    Start Lightroom (if not already started)
    Remove any photo - chose Delete from Disk (I never use the remove from catalog option)
    Adjustment brush won't work - can't drop a pin, can't see old pins, nothing gets added to history. 

    After it stops working, there are multiple workarounds to get it working again - any one of the below is enough to get it working again.  I'm assuming there could be more workarounds. 

    Restart Lightroom
    Turn off & Turn back on brush adjustment (or turn off and undo)
    The spot tool approach mentioned by the OP

    My current LR version: CC / 2015.6.1 Release / Camera Raw 9.6 (but had been happening with LR5 and maybe earlier - don't recall exactly when it started)

    My current O/S: Windows 10, 64 bit (but happened on Win 7, 64 bit as well)

    Like OP said, not related to flow / density.  Optimizing does not help, nor does turning off gpu acceleration. 

    I can post my system info if anyone wants to see it. 
    Bob Somrak
    Bob SomrakAuthor
    Legend
    July 31, 2016
    Hi again Victoria,

    Considering it works for you I decided to try and reset the preferences and try it.  The adjustment brush still quits working as in my original message even with the preference reset.  Please see my previous post to this thread for info on my OS and Lr version.   I also have other info there.  I forgot to reply directly to you.  Sorry.
    M4 Pro Mac Mini. 48GB
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