brush not responding

[Paresh]

What is happening here. I create ad adjustment, click black with the brush but get no response. I think it is my older graphics card. I have AP version 1.10.6. Thanks.

[walt.farrell]

It looks like you've added a Black & White Adjustment above what already seems to be a black & white pixel layer, so I'm not sure what you were expecting to happen. What do you get if you hide that adjustment layer? 

[Paresh]

Yr right - I was just practicing. I wanted to add a layer adjustment & paint some of it out with the brush on black. I get confused working w layers.

[smadell]

Hey @Paresh. Painting black on the adjustment layer is (as you would appear to know) a way to mask out the adjustment, i.e. hiding the adjustment from the painted area(s). If you look at the thumbnail of the adjustment layer, you'll see that there is indeed quite a bit of black on that layer. One thing I notice in your Layers panel is that there is a pixel layer in-between the Black and White adjustment and the Background. It is hard to tell, but the thumbnail of the pixel layer looks like it is a black and white rendition of the background. So, the Black and White adjustment above that would have essentially no effect.

If you want to place the black and white adjustment, but mask some of it out, try hiding that Pixel layer in-between the Background and the Adjustment. Maybe that's the issue.

[Paresh]

Yr right - I was just practicing. I wanted to add a layer adjustment & paint some of it out with the brush on black. I get confused working w layers.

[Paresh]

FYI - I just discovered I inadvertently hit the B shortcut more than once & it changes brushes, in case anyone else does that. It may be part of my problem.

[walt.farrell]

1 hour ago, Paresh said:

FYI - I just discovered I inadvertently hit the B shortcut more than once & it changes brushes, in case anyone else does that. It may be part of my problem.

If you hit B while you're already using the Brush Tool, it should switch to the previous Tool you were using (if you are using the default Settings and Shortcuts).