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Adjustment brush

A tool used to ‘paint’ adjustments on to an image manually, and one of the key adjustment tools in Lightroom, for example. It’s called an adjustment brush here, but it could just be called ‘brush’ in other programs, or ‘masking brush’. You can choose the adjustments you want to make, e.g. exposure, saturation, clarity and so on before you start painting, or make changes to these settings afterwards too.

Selections and masks: what do they do, what’s the difference?

April 22, 2022 by Life after Photoshop

Selections and masks are subtly different, and the ‘parametric’ masks in non-destructive editors give more flexibility than ever.

Filed Under: Editing A-Z, FeaturedTagged With: Adjustment brush, Adjustment layer, Brush, Feathering, Gradient mask, Lasso tool, Luminance mask, Magic wand, Magnetic Lasso, Masks, Polygonal lasso, Radial mask, Selection, Selection brush

Local adjustments explained

March 10, 2022 by Life after Photoshop

Local adjustments

‘Local adjustments’ is a bit of a catch-all term. It means picking out an area of an image for adjustment while leaving the rest unchanged. So how do local adjustments work and which software does them best?

Filed Under: Editing A-Z, Featured, GeneralTagged With: Adjustment brush, Adjustment layer, Brush, Burning in, Control point, Dodging and burning, Feathering, Gradient mask, Local adjustments, Luminance mask, Masks, Non-destructive editing, Radial mask, Selection brush, Sensei (Adobe), Subject recognition

Rediscover dodging and burning in black and white

August 8, 2017 by Life after Photoshop

Dodging and burning

Back in the days of film, a ‘straight’ black and white print was only a stepping stone. A properly finished print was almost always enhanced with some skilled ‘dodging and burning’. Dodging and burning is a classic technique in black and white, where certain areas of a print are held back (dodged) under the enlarger […]

Filed Under: UncategorizedTagged With: Adjustment brush, Black and white, Burning in, Dodging and burning

How to use the Lightroom adjustment brush tool to dodge and burn your colour shots

September 24, 2013 by Rod Lawton

Lightroom adjustment brush

Dodging and burning was a standard darkroom technique for black and white photographers, but it works just as well on colour shots. ‘Dodging’ is where you lighten selected areas of the image and ‘burning’ is where you darken them. With the Lightroom adjustment brush tool this is really easy to do, and you can control […]

Filed Under: Lightroom, TutorialsTagged With: Adjustment brush, Burning in, Dodging and burning, Lightroom (Adobe), Masks

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