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October 26, 2021
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P:(Masking) Permanently toggle off gradient overlay and permanently invert radial gradient

I've installed new Lightroom version 11.0.

 

When I draw a radial gradiant, the red overlay is now on the inside of the gradient every single time. In previous versions of Lightroom, by default the changes made to the radial gradient were on the outside, or at least, Lightroom would remember the last radial gradient you drew and the next one you would draw would be either inverted or not depending on the previous one you drew. Lightroom no longer remembers the last gradient you drew. I mostly make changes to the outside of the radial gradient, so now every time I draw one I have to invert it. Or is there a way to make it behave like it did before?

 

Another irritation is the red tool overlays are now always on when you draw them. In previous versions, the tools would remember if you had the overlay turned on the last time you used it. Or you could hover your mouse over the pin to display the overlay. Is there a way to make this behave like it did in the past so that it doesn't automatically show the red overlay every single time? When it displays the overlay I can't see the changes the brush or gradient is applying. I'd rather see my settings being applied so I can tell if it's the desired effect I want. 

 

I know there are keyboard shortcuts to quickly toggle these things but now I have to do it on hundreds of images over and over. Before I didn't. So this is adding thousads of keystrokes to my workflow. 

42 replies

Known Participant
November 17, 2021

100% agree about the Invert check box with radial gradients.  I finally found the "Reset Sliders Automatically" box and unchecked that so at least I can now do the same sort of edit to successive pictures but it is annoying that I have to click a box to invert the radial gradient every single picture.  I wish that was tied to the "Reset Sliders" check box and thus stayed the way it was last set.

Hopefully this will come in a bug fix!  Seems simple. 

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Bob Somrak
Legend
November 2, 2021

I was replying to this post and my clip didnt get uploaded.  It is not difficult and unnecessary and is better and still simple.

 

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M4 Pro Mac Mini. 48GB
Participant
November 2, 2021

Please clarify, otherwise your comment comes off as rude.

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Bob Somrak
Legend
November 2, 2021

Wrong!!

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M4 Pro Mac Mini. 48GB
Participant
November 2, 2021

Now I have a headache. It was good and simple, now it is difficult and unnecessary. There is Photoshop for this kind of complex processing, right?

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johnrellis
Legend
November 2, 2021

Moderators, @Rikk Flohr: Photography , please move this to Ideas.

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johnrellis
Legend
November 2, 2021

"now every time I draw one I have to invert it. Or is there a way to make it behave like it did before?"

 

I don't think so, unfortunately.

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johnrellis
Legend
November 2, 2021

"Another irritation is the red tool overlays are now always on when you draw them. In previous versions, the tools would remember if you had the overlay turned on the last time you used it."

 

With the mask tool open, uncheck the menu item Tools > Automatically Toggle Overlay.

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Legend
November 1, 2021

Uncheck the Show Overlay option.

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crysania4
Known Participant
November 1, 2021

I have two issues that I'm hoping there's some way to resolve:

 

1. Radial filters previously were automatically applied to what was OUTSIDE the filter. I had to check off "invert" to apply it to what was inside it. Now it's the opposite. But I cannot find a way to keep it so that every time I pull up the radial filter, it's already inverted. IS there a way to do this? In the old version of LR, if I made the change before applying a filter, it stayed that way every time. 

 

2. Along the same line...things like the radial filter, brushes, etc. automatically pulled up my latest selection. So if I used "burn" for a brush, when I pulled up the radial filter, it would come up with burn first. Now when I do that, the next comes up saying "Burn (edited)" but everything now says 0. Is there some way to make this "stick" like it used to? I often use a radial filter on each image in a group and it's becoming a huge pain to always have to select the type AND invert it.

 

I am on a Windows machine if that helps at all.

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crysania4
Known Participant
November 1, 2021

Ugh sorry folks. I thought I clicked on LR Classic and now I see I clicked on CC. I don't know how to move the post and it won't let me delete it!

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