ACR Adjustment Brush

[Joseph Westrupp]

I ran a search on Google to see if there was a way of painting straight lines like in Photoshop (by shift-clicking) in ACR with the adjustment brush. One site said you could use the exact same shift-click technique as in Photoshop, but it just doesn't work for me. Does anyone know if there's a way to paint straight lines with the adjustment brush in ACR?

 

[KmH]

I guess you don't have any at hand reference/resources for your learning/understanding the features and functions of your editing software?

Like: Real World Camera Raw with Adobe Photoshop CS5
Pages 125 to 133 discuss the adjustment brush features (size, feather, flow, density, Auto mask, etc).

In Photoshop the shift-click is done with a different type of brush tool, and you shift-click twice, once each to define each end of a straight line that will render between the 2 clicked points.

The adjustment brush in ACR isn't the same kind of brush and shift-clicking twice in different locations simple defines two different areas that should be adjusted. You may also want to note the control channels used with the Adjustment brush are not a 1 for 1 match with the similarly named control channels available using other tools in ACR.

 

[Joseph Westrupp]

I guess you don't have any at hand reference/resources for your learning/understanding the features and functions of your editing software?

You'd be wrong.

Like: Real World Camera Raw with Adobe Photoshop CS5
Pages 125 to 133 discuss the adjustment brush features (size, feather, flow, density, Auto mask, etc).

I have that book, and, as you found, it mentions nothing about straight lines with the adjustment brush.

In Photoshop the shift-click is done with a different type of brush tool, and you shift-click twice, once each to define each end of a straight line that will render between the 2 clicked points.

The adjustment brush in ACR isn't the same kind of brush and shift-clicking twice in different locations simple defines two different areas that should be adjusted. You may also want to note the control channels used with the Adjustment brush are not a 1 for 1 match with the similarly named control channels available using other tools in ACR.

The similarity, or lack thereof, to the brush in Photoshop is irrelevant. I'm just looking for the functionality this guy mentioned here under the Painting Straight Lines heading.

 

[KmH]

Good for you! :thumbup: I disagree the differences in how the tools work is irrelevant, again asserting it's germain to the issue. In ACR the Adjustment brush is a masking tool, not a painting tool like the brush tool in Photoshop.

Yep, I tried Scott's click-hold the shift key down-click the other end, and it just don't happen as he describes, so I guess he's human and got it wrong, or left out a step, or something.