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Subject: [Leica] Lightroom2/PS CS3/Alien Skin Glitch?
From: jhnichols at bellsouth.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Thu Sep 25 16:23:02 2008
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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
> 
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Message from rbaron at concentric.net (Robert D. Baron) ([Leica] Lightroom2/PS CS3/Alien Skin Glitch?)
Message from rbaron at concentric.net (Robert D. Baron) ([Leica] Lightroom2/PS CS3/Alien Skin Glitch?)