| 00:00 | This photo gives us lots of opportunity
to get creative with the Adjustment Brush tool,
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| 00:04 | which allows you to paint single
or combinations of adjustments into
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| 00:09 | isolated areas of the photo like this.
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| 00:11 | I would like to use this tool to make certain areas
of this photo more contrasty,
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| 00:15 | certain areas more colorful and certain areas sharper.
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| 00:18 | So let's select the Adjustment Brush tool,
which is here under the Histogram
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| 00:22 | and I've collapsed my Histogram panel,
so there's more room for the Adjustment
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| 00:26 | Brush panel, which we'll see when
we click the Adjustment Brush icon.
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| 00:30 | The Adjustment Brush panel offers the same sliders
that we saw with the Graduated Filter tool.
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| 00:35 | I'll start by sending all of these adjustments
back to their default to zero
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| 00:40 | by double-clicking the effect label
here at the top of the Adjustment panel.
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| 00:43 | The first adjustment brush that I want
to add to this image is one that I'll
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| 00:47 | use to increase the contrast here in the Gothic
Mountain peak without affecting the rest of the photo.
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| 00:53 | Before I create that adjustment brush
I'll check by Brush settings here,
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| 00:57 | which control the size of the brush,
the feather or the soft edge of the brush,
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| 01:01 | the flow and the density of the brush
and I like to keep the Flow and Density
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| 01:05 | at 100 unless I want just a slight effect.
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| 01:08 | I'll show you how that works in a moment,
but for now I'll leave Flow and
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| 01:12 | Density at a 100 and I'm going to check
Auto Mask; that will help me to build a
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| 01:16 | mask that defines the area in which this
adjustment is going to be affecting the image.
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| 01:22 | So what I'd like to do with this brush
is to increase the contrast in the mountain.
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| 01:27 | So I'm going to take the Contrast slider
and I'll drag it way up and then
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| 01:31 | I'm going to zoom in and when you're in the
Adjustment Brush panel you need to hold
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| 01:35 | down the spacebar and then click in the image
in order to zoom in.
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| 01:39 | The same is true when you're panning,
so I'll hold the spacebar and then
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| 01:43 | I'llclick and drag in the image
to bring the mountain into view.
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| 01:47 | Now I'm going to start painting over the mountain.
If you look closely you'll see that as I do,
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| 01:52 | I'm increasing the contrast wherever I paint.
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| 02:01 | Down at the bottom of the Adjustment
Brush panel there's a toggle that I can use
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| 02:05 | to compare this after view with the
adjustment; if I click their there's the
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| 02:10 | before view without the adjustment
and the after view again.
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| 02:14 | And noticed that this adjustment
affects just the areas where I've painted.
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| 02:18 | Now if you want to see how this works
under the hood, I'll come down here and
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| 02:22 | I'll check Shows Selected Mask Overlay.
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| 02:25 | And when I do you can see a red mark
everywhere that I painted, this is a mask
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| 02:29 | that I created and I can see actually
there are some areas where I didn't fill
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| 02:33 | in the mask entirely, so I'll fix that
by just painting over those areas.
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| 02:37 | And because I checked Auto Mask, it's
pretty easy to stay inside of the outline
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| 02:42 | of the mountain as I create this mask
without a lot of overspill.
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| 02:46 | I'll hold down the spacebar to pan over here
and I'll add this area to the mask
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| 02:52 | area that's being affected by this adjustment.
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| 02:55 | Now if you go too far for example if I paint here
and then I change my mind and
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| 02:59 | don't want that area affected,
I'll hold down the Option key that's the Alt key
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| 03:03 | on the PC and paint over that area to
remove the mask and also to remove the
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| 03:08 | underlying adjustment from that area.
Then I come going to come down and
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| 03:14 | uncheck Show Selected Mask Overlay.
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| 03:16 | So that's one adjustment brush, let's add another.
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| 03:19 | I am going to hold the spacebar and
click in the image to zoom back out.
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| 03:23 | What I like to do with my next adjustment brush
is to saturate some of the colors
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| 03:28 | down in his foliage and in the foliage up here.
I'll go back to the
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| 03:33 | Adjustment Brush panel and I'll click
the New label at the top of the panel.
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| 03:37 | I'll double-click the Effect label
to send everything back to its defaults.
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| 03:41 | This time I want to increase Saturation, so I'm going
to drag the Saturation slider over to the right.
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| 03:47 | Down in the Brush section I'm going to uncheck
Auto Mask, because I really don't
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| 03:51 | need a hard edge on my mask. I just want the edges
of my painting to blend in with the rest of the image.
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| 03:57 | I'll move into the image and make my brush
a little smaller by pressing the left bracket key
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| 04:01 | on the keyboard a couple of times and then
I'll click and drag over some of these trees
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| 04:06 | that I'd like to see more saturated
maybe here and here and down here along the lake,
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| 04:13 | and maybe I'll do that over some of these
purplish bushes as well.
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| 04:18 | You can really get creative with
where you're painting in your adjustments.
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| 04:22 | So if you're following along,
do that wherever you think it's appropriate.
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| 04:25 | Now if we want to see it before and
after view, I'll come down and I'll click
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| 04:30 | the toggle so there's the after view
and there's a before view.
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| 04:33 | When I click this toggle, both of my
adjustment brushes I turned off and then on.
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| 04:39 | Notice that when I move my cursor into
the image you can see two pins.
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| 04:43 | Each of the pins represents one of the two
adjustment brushes and if I want to add to
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| 04:47 | the areas being covered by a brush
or if I want to tweak the adjustments applied
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| 04:52 | by that brush, all I need to do is
select the appropriate pin, like this.
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| 04:57 | And then I can make a change to contrast, for example.
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| 04:59 | I am going to go back and select the pin
that's increasing saturation and you
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| 05:05 | can see when I hover over that pin
that the red mask for this particular
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| 05:08 | adjustment brush comes into view.
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| 05:10 | What I would like to do is add to this brush
these areas over here, but I don't
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| 05:15 | want them to be as saturated as the other areas.
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| 05:17 | So I'll come down to the Brush settings
for this adjustment brush and I'm going
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| 05:22 | to reduce the flow of the brush.
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| 05:25 | Then I'll move into the image, maybe I'll
make my brush tip a little smaller with
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| 05:29 | the left bracket key and I'm just going to click
and drag over some of these
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| 05:33 | orange areas in the aspen grove here.
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| 05:37 | And down in the water as well,
because here I want to add saturation,
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| 05:41 | but I don't want it to be really obvious,
just a little bit subtle.
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| 05:47 | I'll turn on the mask by clicking Show
Selected Mask Overlay and you can see
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| 05:51 | that where I am painting now the red mask
is less dense than it was in the areas
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| 05:56 | where I had Flow set to 100.
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| 05:58 | And if I paint over these areas several times,
the mask gets more dense and the effect more pronounced.
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| 06:06 | Let's turn the mask off by unchecking Show
Selected Mask Overlay and there is the result.
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| 06:12 | Now of course we could spend more
time adding more saturation into isolated
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| 06:16 | areas of the image, but for now let's
add one more adjustment brush,
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| 06:20 | which is the way that I do creative sharpening.
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| 06:23 | I'll come up to the New label at the top of
the Adjustment Brush panel, I'll select that.
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| 06:27 | I'll double-click Effect to send the sliders back to 0
and this time I'm going to increase Sharpness.
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| 06:33 | And with this sharpness brush, I'm going
to click and drag over some of this
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| 06:37 | vegetation at the edge of the pond, using sharpness
to direct the viewers attention to this area.
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| 06:44 | And maybe I'll do that over these trees as well
making them a little sharper.
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| 06:49 | And there's a kind of a little beaver dam
down here and I'll do it there as well.
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| 06:53 | Now you can't really see sharpness
unless you zoom into a 100%, so I'll hold
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| 06:57 | down at my spacebar and I'll click on
the image and here you can see a couple of
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| 07:01 | the areas to which I've added
that sharpness adjustment layer.
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| 07:05 | I'll show the selected mask overlay and you can see
where I've painted with this adjustment brush.
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| 07:11 | I'll uncheck that hold the spacebar
and click to zoom back out.
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| 07:15 | So that creative sharpening with the
adjustment brush is on top of the initial
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| 07:19 | capture sharpening that we did
in an earlier movie in the course.
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| 07:23 | I'm all done adding adjustment brushes
to this image, so I'm going to close the
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| 07:27 | Adjustment Brush panel by clicking the
Close button at the bottom of the panel.
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| 07:31 | And if I ever want to come in and tweak
any of those brushes I can do that by
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| 07:34 | once again clicking the Adjustment Brush icon
in the toolbar here.
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| 07:38 | For example, I'll click on the Adjustment Brush icon
now to open the Adjustment panel again,
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| 07:44 | so that I can try to tone down some of the saturation
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| 07:48 | that I added using this adjustment brush,
the one represented by this pin.
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| 07:52 | I'll click on the pin, you can see that mask overlay,
and then I'll come over to
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| 07:57 | the Mask panel and I'll take that
Saturation slider down to about there.
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| 08:02 | And then I'll close the Adjustment Brush panel again.
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| 08:05 | So the Adjustment Brush tool has let us
get really creative about where and how
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| 08:10 | we've adjusted individual parts of this photo.
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