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DrDW
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November 8, 2022
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Develop module look/feel different from others

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I apologize for the novice question but I am trying to learn Lightroom from online tutorials etc. and I find that some of the tools in the Develop module do not show in the bar above the "Basic" section on my version (12.0.1). They are using tools such as what I assume are the Linear and Circl gradient tools as well as the brush tool. IS there a way for these to show up on the screen as shown below?  Thak you for your patience!

 

Lightroom Develop Module Tools

What I see:

 

What others see:

 

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Correct answer richardplondon

To help explain this, here are the associations between the former version icons, and the latest ones, colour coded:

White: this is a new icon denoting normal editing. When you exit use of one of the specific tools, you return to this by default - these adjustments have continued to be available too BTW, even while using other tools. This new button actively shows that you are not in any other tool, and if clicked, closes whatever tool may be open.

 

Blue is for cropping: just with a changed icon that shows you can also rotate crop.

 

Pink is a changed icon for spot healing, which can also do spot cloning - and this is no longer limited to circular spots, but can be painted as an irregular shape instead.

 

Yellow is a changed icon for flash red-eye (or green pet-eye) reduction.

 

Green is local adjustments: formerly a few different ways of localising adjustments had their separate icons. Now this is completely redesigned as a new Masking mode. That opens up in a separate window within which these prior ways of localising adjustments, as well as lots of new ones, are presented. You are best off IMO learning Masking from scratch using a more recent help resource which explains the new mode specifically. Any tutorial that demonstrates the old interface will be actively confusing, also will not show you anywhere close to what possibilities now exist.

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Rob_Cullen
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Rob_CullenCommunity Expert
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November 9, 2022

And a link to a very informative blog on Masking from Julianne Kost-

2021-10 MASKING TOOL Oct2021 (J Kost)

 

 

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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richardplondonCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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November 8, 2022

To help explain this, here are the associations between the former version icons, and the latest ones, colour coded:

White: this is a new icon denoting normal editing. When you exit use of one of the specific tools, you return to this by default - these adjustments have continued to be available too BTW, even while using other tools. This new button actively shows that you are not in any other tool, and if clicked, closes whatever tool may be open.

 

Blue is for cropping: just with a changed icon that shows you can also rotate crop.

 

Pink is a changed icon for spot healing, which can also do spot cloning - and this is no longer limited to circular spots, but can be painted as an irregular shape instead.

 

Yellow is a changed icon for flash red-eye (or green pet-eye) reduction.

 

Green is local adjustments: formerly a few different ways of localising adjustments had their separate icons. Now this is completely redesigned as a new Masking mode. That opens up in a separate window within which these prior ways of localising adjustments, as well as lots of new ones, are presented. You are best off IMO learning Masking from scratch using a more recent help resource which explains the new mode specifically. Any tutorial that demonstrates the old interface will be actively confusing, also will not show you anywhere close to what possibilities now exist.

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    DrDWAuthor
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    November 8, 2022

    Thank you for the reply. It clears up a misconcepion on my part that I may have been responsible for misconfiguring the app. somewhere down the line.

    dj_paige
    dj_paige
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    November 8, 2022

    The tutorials are for an older interface. All the tools from the old interface are still in there, you just have to find them. Best you should find some newer tutorials, or a "mapping" that says this button in the old interface is the same as doing this in the new interface. 

     

    Please note, you do not use Lightroom. You use Lightroom Classic.  Adobe has made the names of their software confusing, and then changed them over time, making it difficult to communicate clearly. Please do not refer to Lightroom Classic as Lightroom.

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    DrDWAuthor
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    November 8, 2022

    Thanks for clearing up the version issue for me. I thought that I was posting my question under the Lightroom Classic topic but may have been mistaken.

    dj_paige
    dj_paige
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    November 8, 2022
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    Thanks for clearing up the version issue for me. I thought that I was posting my question under the Lightroom Classic topic but may have been mistaken.


    By @DrDW


    The forum you posted in is not what I meant. You use the term "Lightroom" at least twice, it would be helpful and more clear if you used the term "Lightroom Classic" from now on. More clear is good.

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