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July 7, 2019
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Adjustment brush Color LR Classic

  • July 7, 2019
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I have done something to my adjustment brush so that when I use it for exposure adjustment, it paints the areas red instead of reduced exposure.

Tried using the color selection panel, but it offers every color except black.

I can not remember what I did to upset it, and I sure can not figure how to fix it.

Can anyone offer advice please?

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    Correct answer Joe Foe Toe

    If you mean the masking color of the adjustment brush, try Shift-O when you see an area masked. This will cycle through a light, a dark, a red, and a green overlay.

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    Joe Foe ToeCorrect answer
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    July 7, 2019

    If you mean the masking color of the adjustment brush, try Shift-O when you see an area masked. This will cycle through a light, a dark, a red, and a green overlay.

    robn49088724
    robn49088724Author
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    July 7, 2019

    Thank you Joe.

    I tried that, it worked. Great!

    Regards,

    Rob Neave

    Phone: 0409 083 245

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    richardplondonCommunity Expert
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    July 7, 2019

    The keyboard shortcut "O" turns the overlay on and off altogether. "Shift+O" just changes its colour.

    Showing a white, black, red or green overlay is just a matter of which is going to show up best, so that we can see where we are brushing. A black overlay will make it hard to judge whether we are applying the right amount of darkening (say) in the right places. We need to be seeing the actual adjustment in order to do that.

    So we switch frequently between the two modes as we work.

    We may also want to zoom in and out, and pan around the image in the middle of our brushing. Pressing the spacebar key jumps LR temporarily out of the brushing mode so that we can move a different part of the picture into view, and then resume.

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