In Develop, with a mask, selecting color of mask has no effect

[0mx9]

Mac OS Ventura 13.6, LRC 12.5, M2 MacBook Air

In Develop model, create mask. 

On the Show Overlay line: Selecting the color square has no effect, on the three dots, selecting "Color Overlay Settings" has no effect.

Poked around this forum and found suggestion to close LRC and restart with Shift+Option, clearing preferences. The two issues above disappeared and I changed the color of the overlay from red to blue. However, after that, neither option worked again. Closed LRC, restarted with Shift+Option. Closed LRC, restarted computer. Mask was still there, however it is back to red. Neither option works.

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[C.Cella]

@0mx9 

Maybe stupid on my part but are you sure opacity is set at above 0

For some reason LrC allows to set Opacity at zero for the overlay and nothing is shown.

(I filed a bug internally for this BTW)

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[0mx9]

C.Cella, Thank you. The problem I'm having is I cannot see the screen you showed in your reply.

[C.Cella]

Oh, very weird.

Check the "Opacity" of the Color Overlay you have chosen.

It might be set at ZERO

[0mx9]

Hi, can you say how to set the Opacity of the Color Overlay if I cannot see the screen you mention? Is there a key combination that will do that?

[C.Cella]

Open masking.

Click the 3 dots at the bottom 

Click:  "Color Overlay options..."

Then you will see the Opacity slider.

[0mx9]

Hi. I guess we are not communicating. As I said in the original post: "on the three dots, selecting "Color Overlay Settings" has no effect."  What I meant here is that nothing happens when I click on the three dots. I do not see a "Color Overlay options..." choice as nothing opens. 

[C.Cella]

@0mx9 

Sorry, one last resort.

1. Open Masking and keep it open.

2. In the top Menu do: Tool > Mask Overlay > Color Overlay Options...

In any case you need to share via a Dropbox link ornattaxh here: a test catalog + preferences + system info.

There is obviously a bug here as the ••• should be clickable and work.

[richardplondon]

Clearing preferences will probably reset the mask overlay back to red regardless as well as re-initialising a lot of other user changes to the working environment. Unrelated to a difficulty cycling the overlay hue (shift+O), or using the colour picker to the same purpose. Maybe try doing so with graphics acceleration disabled, which might help to narrow down on the issue.

[0mx9]

Thank you, Richard. In Preferences, Performance, Camera Raw, setting "Use Graphics Processor" to off did not change behavior. Shift + O works perfectly (and I hadn't known about that, so thanks!) Appreciate your time.

[JohanElzenga]

Try this: rather than resetting the preferences by using shift/option, locate the preferences file and delete it. Shift/option clears the contents, but does not replace the file. Deleting the preferences does a more thorough job and sometimes that makes the difference. https://www.lightroomqueen.com/lightroom-classic-file-locations/

[0mx9]

Johan, thanks for the idea. I closed LRC, deleted "Macintosh HD / Users / Dan / Library / Preferences / com.adobe.LightroomClassicCC7.plist" It did not change the behavior. Really appreciate all suggestions!