I'm sure this has been expressed before, but I didn't find it with a search. (No doubt my search terms are at fault, but everything I can think to search with are all very common terms.)
I LOVE Lightroom. I've been a user since the first public (Mac-only) beta. In particular I love the ability to do so much editing without needing to go out to "real" Photoshop. Maybe I'm just spoiled. Maybe it's that my computer is showing its age which makes me less and less interested in going out to Photoshop if I can avoid it.
The adjustment brushes and gradient masks are great for that purpose. But why is it that I can't do the same adjustments with these as I can within the Basic develop panel? I can do most, but I'm missing fill light and blacks, as well as a more simple way to do color correction selectively (such as the same white balance sliders we have in the Basic develop panel).
These tools already exist. But they aren't consistently available. Adding these to the adjustment brush and gradient tools would simplify SO MUCH of my editing work. I do primarily weddings, where I don't have control over the mixed light sources and it's not feasible to set up my own strobes or speedlights ahead of time to cover an entire venue with good light. Sometimes these mixed sources work very well together, but other times I need to selectively correct the color of just parts of the image. Going to Photoshop to do this really interrupts my workflow, not to mention that it strips away the power and flexibility of RAW files, including delayed rendering of the final file.
Again, if this request already exists, or I'm just missing something in the interface, I'm happy to just be pointed in the right direction. Thanks!
I would add Noise Reduction to the list, as it would be useful for areas which need more noise reduction than others AND would also serve as a better skin smoothing brush than Clarity currently does (in reverse)...
The new LR4 beta local adjustment tools are a GREAT addition! Thanks, Adobe! I'm keeping my fingers crossed that the brushes are updated to show actual Kelvin and tint values to make corrections even more useful.
I do not understand why in Lightroom the brush tool has only limited functions?
IT WOULD BE AMAZING IF WITH THE BRUSH TOOL ONE COULD CHANGE ANY SLIDER AVAILABLE IN THE DEVELOP MODULE!!!!
instead of having its own sliders (besides of course size, feather, flow, etc) would it be much better to be able to scroll down to any slider of the develop module and be able to change anything you need to change only for the brush tool.
why is not possible to change blacks or recovery, for example?
it makes no sense
please stop "protecting" photoshop dumbing down lightroom
PS and LR are 2 different programs, who needs photoshop will buy it anyway even if LR has more functionalities.
"I do not understand why in Lightroom the brush tool has only limited functions?"
Because it's relatively hard to do this sort of thing in a non-destructive way, both from a writing of the software perspective, and from a CPU perspective.
Doing this destructively, like in PS, is much easier and that's why PS has so much capability in this area.
Agreed 100% especially in lum noise reduction
many pictures need, for example, a heavy noise reduction only in the sky, where you do not lose important details
and having noise reduction in the brush would make a HUGE difference
agreed also for color adjustment
It would be nice if Lightroom supports selection. It don't need to be as destructive as Photoshop. Here's my idea, you can select the image a few ways, like quick selection, magic wand and color range. Selections will be labeled as selection 1,2,3 or a,b,c, etc. All settings can be changed just like normal. Is this that hard?
i replied to your email ... at this point lightroom classic is broken. i've been paying $50/mo for years for the creative cloud suite and now the application i use most is flat out busted. i spent over an hour on hold w adobe support before having to hang up yesterday. this has got to the single worst experience i've had with software since i first starting using a computer in 1988. v
Does it work after you've temporarily turning off the GPU acceleration from the Lightroom Preferences dialog? If so, try updated GPU driver to the latest and turn back on the GPU acceleration.
no, running osx 10.11.5 - please read answer to email sent by sunil below ...
yes on every image i've tried - all raws - some times it might not happen on the first correct but always after no more than 3 ...ie; tep change, exposure, contrast. i've also tried a variety of combinations to make sure the behavior wasn't tied to just the basic changes. and the same thing happens in quick develop mode in the library tab. so any change to an image results in the image being unselected /
i am not syncing images - assuming you mean mobile synch?
0SX 10.11.5 / 27" imac / GeForce GTX 775M
i've turned off graphics acceleration, deleted and reinstalled lr classic
here's the system info - as you can see my gpu is supported and no open gl errors
Lightroom Classic version: 7.0 [ 1140024 ] License: Creative Cloud Operating system: Mac OS 10 Version: 10.11 [5] Application architecture: x64 Logical processor count: 4 Processor speed: 3.4 GHz Built-in memory: 16,384.0 MB Real memory available to Lightroom: 16,384.0 MB Real memory used by Lightroom: 1,225.6 MB (7.4%) Virtual memory used by Lightroom: 3,068.5 MB Memory cache size: 38.7MB Maximum thread count used by Camera Raw: 3 Camera Raw SIMD optimization: SSE2,AVX,AVX2 Camera Raw virtual memory: 242MB / 8191MB (2%) Camera Raw real memory: 245MB / 16384MB (1%) Displays: 1) 2560x1440, 2) 2560x1440