Lightroom Tips

Adjustment Brush Color Overlay Tip

If you’re using the Adjustment Brush, you may notice that it shows a color overlay on top of what you’re painting on. By default it’s red, but if you’re painting on something on the photo that’s red it can be a little hard to see.

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What’s nice about it, is that you can change the color. Just go under the top menu to Tools > Adjustment Brush Overlay. You can change it’s color right there or use the keyboard shortcut to cycle through the colors.

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I’m off on Spring Break this week which is why the posts are a little light but I’ll be back in the saddle next week. Have a great day!adjustmentbrush1

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3 comments

  1. labro 15 March, 2014 at 01:38 Reply

    thanks for the tip !
    by the way, is there any reason why we can’t paint a color with 100% opacity ? for instance if you have a fireworks in the sky and small houses in the black foreground, you can’t paint them black with a big brush.
    if you have a butterfly with a green background but a grey spot behinh you can’t paint it green
    i did that a lot with capture nx2 and eyedropper and can’t reproduce in lr5.3.
    it is just an overlay, you can’t paint a true 100% magenta,…

    i remember long time ago you already did a tuto about it but i expected one day brush color would improve

    thanks
    marc
    best regards
    marc

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