Can not erase masked areas in camera raw 9.1

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November 22, 2020
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I hope someone can help without telling me to upgrade to newer versions.

I OWN photoshop CS6. It is not in a cloud. It belongs to me and lives on my hard drive.

I have been using it mostly without issues ... until I noticed something strange a few days ago.

I had been using CS6 and camera raw 9.1.1 for a while with absolutley no issues on my windows 7 system.

About a month ago I bought a new super fast Ryzen 7 /windows 10 system.

I now use CS6 on this computer. But there is a problem.

When I use camera raw, and I use the mask brush (so I can change highlight/exposure/etc on selected areas) I can paint properly, the mask color I chose shows up and I can change settings for the selected area.... but I CAN NOT erase any portion of the mask I just painted.

I had no trouble doing this on the old system.

I verified today, with RAW files from Nikon D5 and D810. I can apply a mask wit the brush but I am unable to erase any of it. The mask color (I use light purple) remains everywhere I applied it and will not erase.

I verified by unchecking the SHow Mask box after trying to erase, then changing brightness.

NONE of the mask got erased, everywhere I tried to erase changes brightness.

I hope someone can PLEASE tell me how to fix this.

One reason I spent $3000 on a new system was to have faster image processing , I do not want to go back to a 15 year old windows 7 system!

Problem or error

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D Fosse

Community Expert

I get the problem, but ACR 9.1.1 is the last update you're ever going to get for Photoshop CS6. If there is a technical issue with 9.1.1 on the current Windows 10 (and that would be no surprise), it will never get fixed.

To put it in context: You spent $3000 on a new computer. You have a Nikon D5 and a D810. But you can't spend $10 a month for an up to date and supported Photoshop version?

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Alp WazungyAuthor

Participating Frequently

I suspect ther HAVE to be other people running adobe CS6 on windows 10 that do not have this problem!

If it was a common issue then I beleive I would have found many similar complaints through search engines.

As for paying $10 a month.... I just checked the photoshop CC pricing. It is $21 U.S. a month.

That's $28 a month for me here in Canada.

$336 dollars a year, for how many years?

And the prices are going to stay the same in the years to come? NOT!

Not such a great deal!

This option grates on my beliefs.

Rob_Cullen

Community Expert

FYI- "$28??" You can subscribe to the Photography Plan (20Gb) for US$9.99, CAN$13.00 /month,

and have included: Photoshop 2021, ACR 13, Lightroom-Classic v10, Lightroom-Desktop v4, Lightroom-Mobile Apps, Bridge, Portfolio site, Photoshop Express, Photoshop Camera.

https://www.adobe.com/creativecloud/photography.html?promoid=2K4PCGQ2&mv=other

Regards. My System: Windows-11, Lightroom-Classic 15.0, Photoshop 27.0, ACR 18.0, Lightroom 9.0, Lr-iOS 10.4.0, Bridge 16.0 .