When does a setting "stick" as a default?

[Linwood Ferguson]

This is about tools like crop, brush, etc.

They have a default. So for example, right now, the brush defaults to a +4EV adjustment, which I like -- I paint with that, then pull it down. I set it to that.

I have no idea how.

Sometimes I can get the crop to stay at "locked/original", sometimes it defaults to something else. It's not the last value set.

How does one control this? Where is the default value saved?

 

[Victoria Bampton]

Crop should always be on Original unless you've changed it.

Brush - set it before you start painting a stroke, and that'll become your new default.

 

[Linwood Ferguson]

Crop should always be on Original unless you've changed it.

Brush - set it before you start painting a stroke, and that'll become your new default.

Bingo. It's the "before" I was missing, thank you.

Crop/original -should have asked about the locked aspect of that. and that works the same way -- that was the mystery, set it FIRST and not even use the tool, and it remembers. Thanks.

 

[Victoria Bampton]

Brilliant, well done Linwood!