P: Unable to locate Local Adjustment Tools (Brush, Gradient, Radial)?

Report · Oct 25, 2021

I recently purchased a new laptop (ThinkPad) after my old one (Lenovo) crashed. I just purchased the Lightroom Classic for my new one and cannot find the effects brushes for warm skin, teeth and eye whitening, iris enhancement, etc. I was told these were standard in LRC but I cannot find them. I think I remember buying them as a package from Cole's Classroom that contained these but I cannot find them on their website to download them again. (I've asked on a group support page - as Cole's doesn't have email assistance available, according to their website - but can't figure it out.) Any advice on how to get these effects brushes, would be GREATLY appreciated. Thank you so much.

Report · Oct 26, 2021

Where are the gradated and circular filters in new Lightromm an Photoshop Camera raw Filter ?????

Report · Oct 26, 2021

Apparently you didn't take the time to read the notifications or watch any of the tutorials. Today's installations were upgrades to completely new versions, not just updates.

Report · Nov 16, 2021

I didn't. As far as I was aware it was just an update to LR. Wasn't expecting such fundamental changes. We're not all total whizzes on LR and don't necessarily have time to watch tutorials when we don't even know we need to.

Report · Nov 16, 2021

Hmmm...not trying to argue, but I don't really get your point here. An update always means some level of change is taking place. How would you ever know whether it was "fundamental" or not, unless you looked into what was changing?

Report · Nov 16, 2021

No, it does not. Updates never mean automatic fundamental changes. We are a generation that is used to apps updating almost weekly with NO fundamental changes.

Report · Nov 16, 2021

Adobe and most software company's use the version numbers in this way

v10.0.0 Major upgrade, SQL database changed, big new features, new tools

v10.0.1 Bug fix, probably just a few glaring bugs

v10.1.0 Update, may contain some new features, will contain some new cameras, lenses, perhaps some bugs

So, we went from v10.4 to v11.0, One would expect, big changes, an upgrade to the SQL database, the requirement to upgrade the catalog due to the database change.

Report · Oct 26, 2021

They are still there. Click on the Mask button to get the overview of the eight tools. The graduated filter is now called Linear Gradient, but it is still the same filter. Same for the Radial Gradient. https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/help/whats-new.html

-- Johan W. Elzenga

Report · Oct 29, 2021

see

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7Fld8eEHsE

Report · Nov 04, 2021

Please Help!

I have migrated and updated some photos into a new Mac.

Updated Lightroom Classic...

The "toolstrip" only has 4 tools (crop, heal, red eye and mask).

Where is the common toolstrip with crop, sample/heal, gradient, brush etc???

Haven't found any answers online and no tutorials look like the current toolstrip I am seeing.

Report · Nov 04, 2021

The tools are still there, under masking. Adobe has provided users with a major upgrade in local adjustment tools in Lightroom Classic 11.0. Please view one of the many video tutorials on this upgrade.

Report · Nov 04, 2021

While you reviewing tutorials on mask, also study up on changes to metadata.

And at the top of Discussions, a posting exist on the new LrC v11, click on that, then click on Whats new, read the documents.

Report · Nov 15, 2021

Everyone take a deep breath! The brush tool hasn't disaappeared. The radial filter is not gone. All the local adjustments you are used to are still in the newest upgrade to Lightroom Classic (released Oct. 26 2021) There's a new icon under your HISTOGRAM. It's a circle with marching ants (dashed lines) around it.

Click it.

You'll see your brush tool, radial filter (now called gradient), linear gradient, and all the range mask tools. Plus, you have a couple of extra options (Sky & Subject).

All your effects presets should still be there.

It may take a bit of getting used to, but the tool is more powerful now.

-- Jenn Mishra, photographer & writer for Expert Photography & Photzy

Report · Nov 16, 2021

Whilst I now know where to find these, my presets have gone. I had so many but no idea where to find them.....

Report · Nov 16, 2021

@AndyGTC wrote:

Whilst I now know where to find these, my presets have gone. I had so many but no idea where to find them.....

See below, do you see them using the paths directed?

Did you try toggling on and off "Store Presets with Catalog"?

File location changes for Develop Presets

With this release, the following changes have been made in develop presets:

FILE STRUCTURE

Any newly created develop preset will now be stored at the following locations instead of the existing hierarchy-based file structure.
- macOS - /Users/[user name]/Library/Application Support/Adobe/CameraRaw/Settings
- Windows - C:\Users\[user name]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\CameraRaw\Settings

(Presets stored with the catalog): If you've enabled the Store Presets With This Catalog option in the Lightroom Classic preferences, the presets and templates files are saved at: MacHD/[catalog location]/[catalog folder name]/Lightroom Settings/Settings

Author “Color Management for Photographers" & "Photoshop CC Color Management/pluralsight"

Report · Apr 07, 2022

Thank you, thank you! Working through Lightroom Classic Classroom in a Book 2021, which shows the older toolstrip. I bashed into a roadblock you have now dissolved.

Sue Grise

Report · Nov 20, 2021

In Develop where "two squares", the "eye", and the "fuzzy sun" now apear there was another feature that allowed you to select an area and then perform edits to that area, such as darken, lighten, and eye enhancement. I used the eye enhancement (Or whatever it was called.) feature regularly and it worked splendidly. Maybe you have moved it to a hidden place, as I can't find it. Upgrades are supposed to make programs better, not remove useful features. Will this feature return or is it sadldy "lost forever?!"

Can this same effect be obtained some other way. As I recall there were certain controls that were preset, but the old feature is gone and I can't remeber them.

Report · Nov 20, 2021

Everything is still there. Some of the features are now moved to the Masking tool.

You might want to spend some time reading about the new masking tool. In fact, whenever Lightroom Classic updates and you open it for the first time, a dialog box explaining the new features appears, and I strongly suggest you read the information there.

Report · Nov 20, 2021

Coming up on three weeks in for the Upgrade and members still do not bother to read the Adobe documentation provided, specifically the What's New.

RTFM

as found near top of Discussions:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-discussions/lightroom-classic-11-0-is-now-available...

and from that:

https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/help/whats-new.html

and then in that:

https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/help/whats-new/2022.html#masking

and read the section on Metadata as well

Also, use the frigging videos you can find on the web, for example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7Fld8eEHsE

Report · Nov 20, 2021

Quite frankly, in my opinion, if something is not intuitive and requires so many videos, it's not good UX

Report · Nov 20, 2021

@default6p2jrig13uob wrote:

Quite frankly, in my opinion, if something is not intuitive and requires so many videos, it's not good UX

Some don't need any let alone multiple videos. Some can RTFM.

No one here was born understanding anything about any software product but somehow, some learned. And this isn't solely true for software.

“Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.” ― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

Author “Color Management for Photographers" & "Photoshop CC Color Management/pluralsight"

Report · Nov 20, 2021

This ONE video (so many, I know...) is not required to be able to use masking tool.

Quite frankly, if you find a new icon in the exact location where there was a tool you had previously used, doesn't your intuition tell you clicking on it might be a good idea?

I don't know, maybe just so you could see it does allow you to do what you want, and much more...

And as @dj_paige and others have mentioned countless times in this forum, particularly regarding this issue, which seems to be so incredibly disturbing to many people, when LrC updates there is always a "what's new" window. If people actually spent 30 seconds reading that, they wouldn't be lost when "the feature has incredibly been removed from LrC".

Michael

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Michael Niessen - Photographer, photo-editor, educator

Photo-editing (Ps/Lr/LrC) and photography workshops & one-on-one training (off- and online)

Report · Feb 14, 2022

Not sure what happened but I thought there would be more options where I can make certain things brighter and darker in this menu. I updated my Lightroom and it disappeared. Can anyone help?

{Thread renamed and moved to LrC board by Mod}

Report · Feb 14, 2022

Hi,

Thanks for reaching out. We are sorry about the trouble with Lightroom Classic. We are here to help!

Local adjustment tools or target adjustment tools have been consolidated in to the masking tool.

Masking was introduced with the release of Adobe Lightroom Classic 2022 (11.0 & later), which consolidates and offers you a variety of local adjustment tools in an organized panel. Check this video to learn more:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asDvkAEZmLY

Please check here for instructions to help you get started with masking.

https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/help/masking.html

Please let us know if this points you in the right direction!

Thanks!

Sameer K

Report · Aug 03, 2022

hi, i have Lightroom v 10-v11 and the adjustmentbrush tool is missing.
should it be like that? im trying to download presets, and when trying to follow the checklist i notice that i didnt even have that tool anymore.

Report · Aug 03, 2022

Hi Camilla,

Thanks for reaching out. We are sorry about the trouble. We are here to help!

Local or target adjustment tools (Brush, Gradient, Radial) have been consolidated into the masking tool.

Please check this community post to learn more: https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-discussions/p-unable-to-locate-local-adjustment-too...

Thanks!

Sameer K

P: Unable to locate Local Adjustment Tools (Brush, Gradient, Radial)?

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FILE STRUCTURE