Adjustment Brush Question

Ok, I'm feeling a bit Lightroom dense, so forgive me if this is a stupid question.

In the past week I've noticed that when using the adjustment brush in Lightroom the intensity of the brush is faint. For example, when reddening lips it shows the lips a very faint color when looking at the at the color painted and no matter how I change the settings of the brush nothing changes on the area I'm tying to adjust.

I'm sure I did something but can't find it. Can anyone help me out?

Never mind everyone, I'm an idiot. The adjustments were turned off. Doh!!!

Well, a couple ideas: First, go back to an image where the brush behaves as expected. Examine both the image characteristics and the specific brush settings and see if you can note differences.

Second, you could post a screenshot of the brush settings and a 100% crop of the area you are working on -- maybe we can spot something.

Are you using a color-selective saturation? From your description it sounds like it. The only other thought I have is that saturation brush can only bring out color that is actually there -- it doesn't realy "brush in" color. If your color pick is in the right range, it should do the job of saturating that particular color, but if you are off you get uncertain results.

Another consideration: is this an image that you desaturated prior than trying to brush in restored saturation, like selective coloring? If so, be aware that there are different types of desaturation that can have different effects. If you slide the Saturation slider all the way back, then applying a saturation brush will have a muted effect. However, if you desaturate by pulling back all the Saturation sliders in the HSL panel then brush in saturation, the effect will be much stronger.

Finally, although you said you checked all the settings, I do occasionally miss something. I can have saturation set to 100, the flow all the way up, brush away just to find my density is way low. It doesn't hurt to double-check. And, do you check your mask overlay (press "o")? It can give a clue of brush behavior.

Let us know!

Familiaphoto wrote in post #10041741
Never mind everyone, I'm an idiot. The adjustments were turned off. Doh!!!

Well, then -- I'm not gonna un-type all that just 'cause you solved your dang problem!

Thank you for the help Tony, my density was way low as well. Multiple issues here in Chicago.

Familiaphoto wrote in post #10041823
Thank you for the help Tony, my density was way low as well. Multiple issues here in Chicago.

Well, at least I said one thing that was relevant! As they say, even a broken clock is accurate twice a day!