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Using the Graduated Filter tool

Using the Graduated Filter tool - Photoshop Tutorial

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Using the Graduated Filter tool

All right. That takes care of the Basic panel. Before we move on to the other panels that we will be looking at inside of this chapter, I'd like to turn our combined attention here to the local Adjustment tools. So basically up here in the toolbar we have a handful of tools. We have seen the White Balance tool. A few others that we'll be seeing over the course of time. But starting with this guy right there, Spot Removal, and ending with Graduated Filter, these tools allow you to essentially paint inside of your image while working in Camera Raw. So, for example, the Spot Removal tool is a Healing tool and you don't really brush with it the way you do the Healing Brush inside of Photoshop. Instead what you do is you isolate an area, and this tool by the way is designed to account for camera dust. So if you've got dust on your lens or inside the lens element then you can locate that little snivel inside the image, and you can heal over it. So you start things off by basically dragging…

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