help with the adjustment brush

[steven owen]

In the top right hand of my picture the sky was blown out, so thought i would use the adjustment brush with minus exposure, zoom in close and keep masking on and use a very small brush to get in between the chimmny pots, problem is when i need to drag the image accross i have to go out from the adjustment brush which means you start a new adjustment and then you cannot control it as one adjustment with the slider bar also if you go over the existing adjustment it makes it twice less exposed, the bottom line is , how do i stay with the one adjustment brush to do the whole area as one adjustment and also drag the image accross is there a short cut that still keeps you is the adjustment you are working on.
Regards Steve

 

[Mark Sirota]

I'm not understanding the actual question, which I'm sure is buried in there somewhere.

Are you asking how to pan across the image while zoomed in and using the adjustment brush? Hold the space bar -- the cursor changes to a hand, and then you can pan.

Also, you can always click on the pin to select the previous adjustment and add to it, rather than starting a new one.

Alternately, paint the large area while zoomed out, then zoom in and subtract the areas (by holding the alt/option key while painting) that you didn't want to affect.

 

[steven owen]

thamks

 

[patrad]

this was my problem too! space bar! perfect! I thought I had tried every key on the board!