Stuck on a Lightroom editing issue!

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Duncan.F

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Hi,
I am using LR 5 more and more for editing and have starting using the adjustment brush rather than hopping in and out of Photoshop. All is clear apart from the ability to paint in colour [or white]! If I start with a new shot, brush at whatever is suitable, feather 50%, flow 100% and density 100% but it paints as though its opaque at 40% and doesn't cover at all. So I might try to paint out part of the backdrop white but it its not working.
I have tried every adjustment I can think of, help!
 
Not something I'd ever noticed, but it seems you are right. The colour adjustment brush really doesn't work like you'd expect.
 
I don't think the brush is a paint brush though is it? It seems to be more of a tonal adjustment brush that will alter the tonal values already in the photo but not over write them with a pure colour from the swatch pad

<goes off to open LR5 and report back>
 
It only tints existing colours, it doesn't paint over them with an opaque colour, so even at full opacity you'd still get the underlying texture. (as Buck said)
 
I can't get white but I can get near black - probably around 95% except for where I painted on very bright parts of my test photo!

Exposure - 4.00
Contrast + 100
Highlights -100
Shadows - 100
Clarity -100
Saturation -100
 
Maybe you could use the highlight option instead to blow out the area?
 
By setting the exposure to maximum ( either -4 or +4 ) the going over the area twice, using two instances of the brush, you got a solid white or black
 
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No you can't do solid colours. The only way my method works is due to extremes of exposure. To be honest this isn't what Lightroom was designed for. I you need to add solid colours then it's Photoshop or similar. I just wonder how much you want tp whiten the background
 
Hi, thanks for all the replies! Have been playing about with it and can't do it, or so it seems! It was just for those occasions where a studio shot needs the white background widened/heightened without all the faff of taking it in and out of PS....
Whilst I am here can you use the LR watermark editing to incorporate both a logo and text at the same time. Can't seem to find a way of doing both!
 
Chappers said:
To be honest this isn't what Lightroom was designed for.
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Probably not - but the adjustment brush pretends that's what it's for. For example, you can pick up an arbitrary background colour and paint it in where your Colorama ran out. Or you could if it worked ;)

You could probably achieve that with the new souped up clone tool with most real images. That saves many a trip to PS.
 
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