lightroom adjustment brush queery

[aerialshot]

In the top right hand of my picture the sky was blown out, so thought i would use the adjustment brush with minus exposure, zoom in close and keep masking on and use a very small brush to get in between the chimmny pots, problem is when i need to drag the image accross i have to go out from the adjustment brush which means you start a new adjustment and then you cannot control it as one adjustment with the slider bar also if you go over the existing adjustment it makes it twice less exposed, the bottom line is , how do i stay with the one adjustment brush to do the whole area as one adjustment and also drag the image accross is there a short cut that still keeps you is the adjustment you are working on.
Regards Steve

 

[aberal]

Press the space bar and left click. You can then pan across the image.

 

[Craikeybaby]

Or you can use the navigator window on the left.

 

[tdodd]

Automasking should enable you to brush, almost willy nilly, keeping the centre of the brush on the sky only and your chimney pots should remain unaffected. There is no need to zoom in to 1:1 or whatever to make such adjustments. You can actually use a pretty large brush and, so long as you keep the centre on the sky alone it will not matter if you overlap the edges of the brush over trees, roof lines or anything else that is distinctly different in tone from the sky.

If something does get molested by accident I often find it quicker/easier to use a smaller eraser brush and just "unbrush" the mistakes.

 

[markrichardson]

I second Tim's suggestion - it's much quicker to automask and then to erase anything which isn't right. It'll get it about 95% right, and fixing the 5% will be much quicker than doing the whole thing manually.