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Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Adobe Lightroom Q&A => Topic started by: Paul2660 on November 28, 2017, 09:35:11 am
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I have searched a bit online, and here, but have not found anything.
Is there a way to change the adjustment brush pin color, from the grey to either red, or any other bright color? Many times the standard color of grey blends in and you cannot find the pin that controls a mask.
Thanks
Paul Caldwell
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The answer, as far as I know is that you didn't find anything because there isn't. I have raised this issue with a person in Adobe several years ago - that time in respect of the gradient tool, which presents the same usability problem - it is often difficult to detect the pin from previous uses of the tool, which wastes time searching for it when trying to go back in for an edit. One would have thought it rather easy to introduce such a refinement (a selectable colour for the pins), but it obviously doesn't rate high enough yet on the Adobe priority list of application improvements. One way of overcoming the inconvenience is to stare intently at the image while you toggle the tool on and off several times, looking for this little button to appear somewhere around where you think you may have set it. A correctable nuisance.
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On my Windows 10 computer, if I hit "Control" by itself circles appear around my cursor position. It works on the crosshair in LR Classic, too.
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I think this inquiry is about the pin position, not the cursor position. In any case, for Mac OSX 11.x this is not happening - with either.
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Thanks guys,
It's a real issue when I have multiple pins, and the image is busy with details, many times I spend quite a bit of time looking for a particular pin that controls an individual mask. This is one area where I prefer C1's design, as each adjustment is a separate layer. Had hoped that over time LR would evolve similarly.
Paul Caldwell
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After upgrading I spend 5 minutes searching for the pin on one of my images. Finally figured out the check box was turned off. Grrrr.
Dave
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After upgrading I spend 5 minutes searching for the pin on one of my images. Finally figured out the check box was turned off. Grrrr.
Dave
What check box are you referring to here?
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After upgrading I spend 5 minutes searching for the pin on one of my images. Finally figured out the check box was turned off. Grrrr.
Dave
Keystroke "H" toggles from "hide to show" for the pins.
And since I have my soapbox out, not only should the pins be able to be a different, more noticeable color, BUT we should have the option to label them! So, you could use "H" to toggle between "no pin visible, pin visible, pin visible with label beside it." Since local adjustment masks (especially now that we have range masks) are functioning more and more like layers in Photoshop, the ability to label them would be a huge boon for most of us, I would think.
Adobe are you listening?
Rand
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...we should have the option to label them!
Good idea. Hadn't thought of this.
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What check box are you referring to here?
"show selected mask overlay". Sometimes when I do not see the pins, I check that and they appear. When I uncheck it they remain.
Dave
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Adobe are you listening?
Probably not. How long has it been since first asked for, almost a decade ? :-(
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"show selected mask overlay". Sometimes when I do not see the pins, I check that and they appear. When I uncheck it they remain.
Dave
Ah, OK, thanks.
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To review what everyone likely knows:
1) K = brush
2) H = Hide/Reveal Pins
3) O = Show Mask (Toggle, Default Red)
4) Shift O = Toggle Mask Colors, when mask displayed with O
5) Shift M = Radial Filter (With same H/O/Shift O above)
6) M = Gradient (With same H/O/Shift O above)