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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. You may need to choose the adjustments you want to make, e.g. exposure, saturation, clarity and so on before you start painting although non-destructive photo editors let you make changes to these settings afterwards too. You can change the size, softness and opacity of the Adjustment Brush.

Lightroom CC review (2020)

August 16, 2020 by Rod Lawton

Verdict: 4 stars It’s undeniably useful to be able to see, organise and edit your images anywhere, on any device, and the editing tools are now almost the same as those in Lightroom Classic. But you do have to pay for the necessary cloud storage for your photo catalog, and while the Sensei AI image search feature is great, the rest of the organising tools are pretty simplistic – and there are no smart albums. Lightroom CC is unique and effective in some ways, expensive and limiting in others.

Filed Under: Featured, Lightroom, Reviews Tagged With: Adjustment brush, AI (artificial intelligence), Album, Creative Cloud (Adobe), Lightroom, Lightroom Mobile, RAW processing, Sensei (Adobe)

Lightroom Classic review

August 11, 2020 by Rod Lawton

Lightroom Classic CC

Verdict: 4 stars Lightroom has become a standard tool for a large number of photographers and it does streamline the organisation and editing of large numbers of photos. But while it’s powerful and effective, its raw processing is not the best and its organisational system can feel quite awkward.

Filed Under: Lightroom, Reviews Tagged With: Adjustment brush, Lightroom, RAW processing

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, Tutorials Tagged With: Adjustment brush, Dodging and burning, Lightroom

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