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Inspiring
April 26, 2011
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P: Ability to move Adjustment Brush Pins

  • April 26, 2011
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One problem I have when not using a tripod is that the place where I have used an adjustment brush has moved a little bit in each successive picture. It would be nice to be able to click the pin and simply move that point of adjustment. You can do it with the graduated filter, why not the adjustment brush?

54 replies

Inspiring
December 6, 2017
I'm voting for this function...workflow would allow me to sync several pix and all I'd need to do is move the adjustment brush pin for different crops. 
MadManChan2000
Adobe Employee
Adobe Employee
April 25, 2015
Thanks again for your patience, Carlos. I know it was frustrating to wait, but glad the features like Filter Brush finally made it to Lr CC and that you can use them.

Enjoy,
Eric
Known Participant
April 25, 2015
Thanks Eric for your reply, and of course very happy now to see all of the above (the features that were added in acr 8.5) implemented in LR CC!!!! IT'S GREAT!
MadManChan2000
Adobe Employee
Adobe Employee
March 13, 2015
Carlos, I hear and understand your frustration. To be clear, our intention is to bring all of the recent Camera Raw imaging developments to Lightroom as well. But these will need to wait for a major Lightroom release version.
Known Participant
March 12, 2015
I've never understood that this feature wasn't implemented after the adjustment brush was introduced, and I've been waiting for it ever since. But what really baffles me is that features like this one (or being able to click-shift click to draw lines, or the ability to edit the mask with a brush, or add color samplers, etc. etc. etc.) are now available in Camera raw... and not in Lightroom!!! I find it an inconsistent approach to what Lightroom is supposed to be, and in fact it makes ACR and LR look much different that they really are (as if it wasn't enough with the interface differences, not to mention a whole different set of keyboard shortcuts). I don't really understand your product policy in this regard - it's as if the ACR and LR teams aren't talking to each other.

So far I've sticked to LR because I hope these inconsistencies that have grown over time will eventually be ironed up in the next major release of LR... but otherwise I'll consider abandoning LR and sticking to ACR and Bridge. It would be a tough call because some LR capabilities are very important to me, but raw developping comes first in any photographer's list, and it annoys me to think that so many great features are already there (in the ACR engine beneath LR interface), but LR engineers won't let me use them for reasons that are beyond me.

So please, introduce the ability to move adjustment brush pins, and if possible, also bring to LR the other improvements that were implemented in ACR but haven't made it into LR so far. Thanks.
Inspiring
March 8, 2015
This post was now started 4 years ago, so I doubt there's any urgency to get this done. But, yes, not being able to move the adjustment pin is a huge pain in the butt. It's nice to be able to zoom in and do some detailed brushing, but if you have to create a new brush every time you zoom in because your adjustment pin is now far off screen, it just plain doesn't work, because if you paint on top of what you already painted with a new brush the effect is doubled where the two brushes intersect. The only way to do it is to zoom all the way out... There are a lot of quirks with Lightroom, but no one seems to care to fix them.
Inspiring
January 8, 2015


One feature I would find helpful for Adobe Lightroom would be the ability to move edit pins (and by doing so move the whole edit). Sometimes I have items or people in multiple similar shots that I would like to apply the same edit to and if I could move the edit pins it would be a cinch!
MadManChan2000
Adobe Employee
Adobe Employee
September 29, 2014
Yes, hopefully in the future.  (It can currently be done in the Camera Raw plug-in.)
Inspiring
September 28, 2014
We need this, can it be done?
Inspiring
August 29, 2014


It would be very helpful if an adjustment brush mask could be dragged to different location. Complex masks synced to a slightly moved frame have to be almost completely re-done-- big time waster...