New on the adjustment Brush tool... Help!

Hello!  I am quite new to Lightroom and the particular adjustment Brush tool, and I'm having some problems with it!  I've seen tons of tutorials on using and it seems relatively easy... but when I go into my program and try to use it, nothing happens to my photo... say if I wanted to set the exposure on the face of the individual, I'll go and select the tool, reducing exposure, make the brush and the size I want feathers, and when I go to 'paint' the area I want altered nothing happens?  Pins appear as if to show me that's where I started, but then no change happens in the region, tried to paint.  I have to choose something somewhere to really use the brush to paint?  Any help is appreciated!  Thank you!!

First of all, check that you have painted something. Downstairs is an option that says "Show selected mask overlay", activate it. It will show you the area that you have painted so far.

If rose appears, this is where you have painted so far. Try to change your settings (i.e. move the sliders all the direction one way or another). If you see the effect appear, compose things until you have what you want.

If you don't see rosy appears, make sure that your cursors of flow and density are upward. This act like opacity, so if they are too low, you are not fixing amount of "painting" with your brush.

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