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I want the old gradients menu back

Forum|Forum|4 years ago
November 5, 2021
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Is there any way of bringing back the old gradient menu? Where you clould've simply clicked on the radial filter, which remembered your previous actions, and you simply dragged it on the picture?
With the new context menu not only i have to do 3 clicks more, but it also doesn't remember my previous settings.. That means 6 mouse clicks more in total, which is extremely annoying, of you need to use this filter on every of 150 photos.

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GoldingD

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video on new masking, highly recommend you watch the entire thing, highly recommend you experiment while watching. Recommend watching such videos and looking at Adobe provided documentation, before stumbling around.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7Fld8eEHsE

https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/help/whats-new.html

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photojoe648

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There needs to be an option to use gradient filters like we use to use them, because the masking feature takes way too long! As someone who uses about 5-8 gradients per image, while editing weddings, this is slowing me down big time!

I am super frustrated with this.

Now, my landscape photography can benefit from it, but my weddings are taking twice as long to edit now! Super frustrated right now.

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Ondrej5FCAAuthor

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Lightroom was always about "Quick bulk edit", which they completely ruined by this update. I don't need these complicated tools in lightroom, they belong to Photoshop, where you can work separately on individual pictures, to make them perfect, if you want.

JohanElzenga

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Look at the bottom of the adjustments panel. There is a checkbox that says 'Reset all sliders'. Uncheck that box...

-- Johan W. Elzenga

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Ondrej5FCAAuthor

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Thanks, at least something.. But still doesn't replace the comfort of previous version, sadly

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photojoe648

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Agreed! This new "masking" function has slowed down my wedding editing big time! I'm so frustrated right now.

@MNiessenPhoto

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"Is there any way of bringing back the old gradient menu?""

The only way to get them back is to revert to LrC 10.4, unfortunately.

That said, many people have expressed frustration about the way masks work in LrC 11.0 and there are a few threads in the "ideas" section of this forum. you might want to check them out and add your vote, so there's a chance Adobe takes your voice into account.

Michael

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Bob Somrak

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I doubt any the old tools will be coming back. With the Shortcuts and Option Switches there is no need to click several times if you take the time to learn how it works

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@MNiessenPhoto

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Of course old tools will not come back, but maybe Adobe might make some changes to the behavior of new ones, e.g. the ability to create multiple radial/graduated filters in the same mask without having to go and click on 'Add' each time. How (un)likely it is, I don't know, but it's not too far-fetched an idea to consider it possible, IMO.

Michael

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Michael Niessen - Photographer, photo-editor, educator

Photo-editing (Ps/Lr/LrC) and photography workshops & one-on-one training (off- and online)

dj_paige

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Please see the reply from @Per Berntsen at https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-discussions/lightroom-cc-keeps-resetting-brush-tool-now-masking-for-each-picture/m-p/12501165#M249556

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