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Adjustment Brush has stopped working

Forum|Forum|7 years ago
October 7, 2018
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Hi there is anyone else having issues in LR CC Classic with the adjustment brush?

Today for some unknown reason my adjustment brush is not working at all. I use this feature all the time and its annoying I cannot contact anyone from Adobe by phone or chat. This forum is their answer to me trying to solve the issue myself. I have only just upgraded from LR 5.7 and I am now regretting it.

If anyone can help would be eternally grateful.

adjustment brush tool

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GeneCarv

Participant

Just had the same problem. Was working yesterday, not today. I closed the program, then rebooted the computer. It now works fine.

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baddog99

Participant

I just updated to Lightroom Classic 9.2 and the Adjustment Brush is missing Feathering Slider and Masking options - very annoying, I wonder what else isn't working!

Rob_Cullen

Community Expert

Working for me with v9.2.

Can you activate the brush and post a screen-clip of your entire Brush panel?

Do you need to scroll down? (because of small screen size)

"Masking"? - The 'Range Mask' option will not be available until you have brushed on the image.

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 .

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troycameronstein2

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@deano_thfc, I feel your frustration. I upgraded recently and felt like the brush tool become inoperable. Like you, I had a few years of experience with the brush tool, and was feeling handcuffed and dumb. (Had I forgotten how to use the tool all of a sudden?).

Well, here's what I figured out, after triple checking the other tools like Graduated Filter against the Brush Tool:

The key (for me) was in the tiny little triangle next to the brush tool which somehow had collapsed and hidden all the options.

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lynnw3516001

Participant

Thank you so much! I have been struggling with this for months. I never would have seen that triangle without you pointing it out.

Rob_Cullen

Community Expert

Can you Copy&Paste the top 10 lines from the Lightroom Menu: Help>System Info...

Is the Brush Size set to 10 or higher?

Do you have the Brush Flow and Density at 100?

What "Effect" settings have you made for the Brush?

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 .

deano_thfcAuthor

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Lightroom Classic version: 7.5 [ 1186149 ]

License: Creative Cloud

Language setting: en-AU

Operating system: Mac OS 10

Version: 10.14.0 [18A391]

Application architecture: x64

Logical processor count: 4

Processor speed: 3.5 GHz

Built-in memory: 8,192.0 MB

Real memory available to Lightroom: 8,192.0 MB

Flow & Density set to 100%.

Brush size above 10.

Highlight adjustment brush effect.

Rob_Cullen

Community Expert

And what are you expecting to see with the Highlight slider? (You will only be affecting highlights in the image)

Are you darkening or lightening highlights, and to what extent +100 -100 ? Any effect will be extremely minimal with a 'small' slider adjustment!

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 .

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