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P: Brush tool retains settings of previous image

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October 28, 2021
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I used to be able to quickly skip to the next picture to edit while staying in a brush setting without having to reopen the mask tool again and click on brush and clicking on setting. I am unable to do that now with the new mask update. Have any of you been able to figure out how to quickly go to the next picture while staying in the same brush setting? So when I go to the next picture, it automatically opens the brush tool in the previous setting, instead of having to go through so many steps to open it again for each individual picture. Many thanks!

macOS

Correct answer JohanElzenga

Just press the 'K' key. If you want the brush to retain its settings, then uncheck the option to reset all sliders at the bottom of the brush settings panel.

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Dainius244275322fy8

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I have been able to work with loads of pictures, leaving brush tool open and skiping to next picture without any additional clicks or keyboard K pressings to reopen brush tool. After introducing this new tool it become impossible to work with numbers of pictures. I am concidering to cut adobe plan and sart using previous version from torrent sites... Please help.

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ckfotocreativAuthor

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So what I found out I have to do to adjust multiple pics with the same setting. After I determine the right adjustments, I create a new pre-set. I press "k" before I go on to the next pic, when I go to the next pic I press "k" again and it goes straight to brush and all my settings from previous adjustment brush populates. Thank you all for the tips!

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inspirephotonz

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The brush tool still disapears even with the reset sliders option set to off when moving to the next image.

How can I just keep it on brush tool?

JohanElzenga

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@inspirephotonz wrote:

The brush tool still disapears even with the reset sliders option set to off when moving to the next image.

How can I just keep it on brush tool?

You can't keep it open. You do have to press the 'K' key each time.

-- Johan W. Elzenga

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inspirephotonz

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Thanks.

That my friend is really annoying for me. Photographing schools using lightroom, now meaans I have to continually move my fingers back and forth from command right arrow to K and back. I just wanna Comand right - brush - command right - brush - comm...... etc

JohanElzenga

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Just press the 'K' key. If you want the brush to retain its settings, then uncheck the option to reset all sliders at the bottom of the brush settings panel.

-- Johan W. Elzenga

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Ettore98A1

Participant

Hello everyone the new version of October 22 (11.0) has eliminated the handy brushes for enhancement with specific actions. For example: iris improvement, teeth whitening, skin smoothing but above all shading or gradient or spot removal. They were convenient because they saved time: they were already preset and also available from third parties. Now they are not present but new more precise masking systems have been introduced. It seems to me a step backwards. You lose more time and have to do them all over again. Please restore them. Thanks

Per Berntsen

Community Expert

I am having the SAME issues and it's SO frustrating! I can't simply use a brush to lighten eyes anymore without a stupid red mask appearing where I used the brush. I really don't like this change at all! I am wasting so much time and so frustrated and can't figure out how to lighten eyes in the way I have been for years! Adobe restore what used to be!

Press O on your keyboard to toggle the overlay on and off.

Click the three dots in the lower right corner of the panel for more overlay options and settings.

Rikk Flohr_Photography

You can have it either way.

It is controlled by the "Reset Sliders Automatically" setting at the bottom of the masking adjustments:

Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org

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ckfotocreativAuthor

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That is helpful! Thank you so much!

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malacca73

Participant

Is there any way in the latest versoin with its fancy masking to bring back the behavior where newly-created masks will default to the last used effect?

I will often use a similar effect on different parts of an image and would rather the behavior be as it was in preivous versions, with the new mask automatically applying the last used effect to new masks. This saves me lots of time, as I do not have to go to the drop down menu every single time to select the same effect.

Is there a setting for this now or is it just gone? I would vey much appreciate having it back...

adolfboluda

Inspiring

+1
Would be nice to have it back.

adolfboluda

Inspiring

I think I solved id, was the option "Reset sliders automatically" at the bottom of the mask settings.
Any modification of the sliders made before brushing for the first time or creating the radial or gradient will be there the next time you create a new mask

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