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Adjustment brush tricks

Adjustment brush tricks - Lightroom Tutorial

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Adjustment brush tricks

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- [Instructor] So, there will be times that the radial filter and the graduated filter just don't work. And that's when we want to use the adjustment brush. Now, we used the adjustment brush a little bit for doing some spot retouching earlier. We were doing some teeth whitening. And you can do all sorts of things with it. It also works really well on an image like this where the foreground is dark. The background is light. Neither one of them is a convenient shape that we can just overlay. So if I jump into the Develop module. My first step is to hit Auto, and sure enough the foreground looks much better. And if I pull in the highlights, I get a little more of the sky, but I feel like I'm missing something. I feel like there's a lot more to it. So, what I'll do is I'll go into the adjustment brush, and I just want to set the adjustment brush so that I can burn-in the sky. So, to do that I'm going to pull back the exposure a little. I'm going to pull back the highlights a bit. And I'm…

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