Inpainting brush color

[Yuri P.]

Scenario:

Open an image. Add "Black and white" adjustment layer.

Select Inpainting brush, try to inpaint on the image.

The brush strokes color is not red, as usual, but dark-gray, as if the adjustment layer applied to it as well.

[Ron P.]

@Yuri P., I see that happening too. However I'm not convinced it's a bug. Applying a Black and White Adjustment, it affects everything below it. So it would stand to reason, the red overlay used by the inpainting brush would be affected. I've played around with this.

1. If you apply a B&W adjustment, then merge it with the image, and then use the inpainting brush, the overlay is not affected, it is red.
2. If you use the inpainting brush like I do, using an empty pixel layer, having that layer above, the adjustment and image layers, the inpainting overlay is red.
3. Place the empty pixel layer between the adjustment layer and the image, and the overlay is grey as you described.

Puzzling, is it a bug as you pointed out, or could it be a bug as I described, or not at all. For the adjustment layer to affect it, it would seem the overlay is a small temporary layer itself.

[MEB]

Hi Yuri P.
Thanks for your report. Currently this is working as intended however it does may pose issues when working with black and white images or when the layer is affected by other adjustments. We already have this logged with the dev.

[Lem3]

Probably the same issue: I have gray brush strokes if instead of a B/W adjustment layer the entire image is converted to Gray/8.

[MEB]

Hi Lem3,
Yes, it is indeed the same issue and was pointed out/raised up as well when i logged the original issue.