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September 8, 2021
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Brush shows red, not changes, when painting

  • September 8, 2021
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Hoping this is a simple rookie mistake:

 

As long as I've been using Lightroom, when I use the brush tool to edit parts of the photo, the changes to the image appear in real time when I'm painting. Not sure what I did today, but all of a sudden instead of showing the changes it shows the red "mask" (for lack of a better word) instead of the changes. Previously the only time I saw this red mask was when I hovered my mouse over the blue dot showing that particular Brush. I want to go back to how it was before, with the Brush showing the actual changes in real time - how do I do this? I have Lightroom v. 4.4 and use a PC if that helps.

 

Any insight would be greatly appreciated!

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Rob_Cullen
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September 8, 2021

Press keyboard [O]  Oh! for 'Overlay' toggle through - Hide > Show Tool > Show Mask > Show Tool and Mask.

Press keyboard [SHIFT+O] to toggle the mask overlay Red<>Green.

And don't get confused if you do not see the full Brush slider settings- Click on the small spinner triangle to open<>close all sliders.

 

Regards. My System: Windows-11, Lightroom-Classic 15.1.1, Photoshop 27.3.1, ACR 18.1.1, Lightroom 9.0, Lr-iOS 10.4.0, Bridge 16.0.2 .