Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/09/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Bob, Sounds like some clever detective work by someone. Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert D. Baron" <rbaron@concentric.net> To: <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2008 6:02 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] Lightroom2/PS CS3/Alien Skin Glitch? > If anyone is still following this thread, a workaround has been found > by someone on the Adobe Lightroom Forum. The question was: > >>>Lightroom 2 has a really nifty feature called Adjustment Brush, which > lets you make local (as opposed to global) corrections such as > exposure and so on to specific parts of an image. > > I work on a raw image in Lightroom 2 and fiddle with it (crop, adjust > exposure etc) and then open it in Photoshop CS3 where I use Alien Skin > Exposure 2 to convert it to b&w. I then flatten the layers, save it as > a .tif, and re-open it in Lightroom. At this point I can still make > global corrections (exposure etc) but the local Adjustment Brush > doesn't work. > > Alien Skin must be doing something to the image. If I go LR->PS->LR > without using Alien Skin I don't have this issue.<< > > And the workaround is: > > Deselect Auto Mask and the Adjustment Brush will work. > > This has got to be one of the most arcane I don't understand it at all > software glitches and workarounds I've ever seen. Not in a million > years could I explain the how or why of this. > > If this is something that may be useful to you I am happy to send it > along. That may be 1% of the LUG, but hey..... > > Regards, > > --Bob > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >