From the course: Lightroom: Mastering Adjustments and Editing

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Graduated filters - Lightroom Tutorial

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Graduated filters

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around global image adjustments, Now, what I want to talk about is graduated edits, doing something to just part of the image deliberately. This is really handy with photography, Let's use this image here as an example. Any image will work for this, but something with a clear sky is often really helpful. And just as a first step, I'm going to hit Auto as I come in here, maybe add some clarity. And at this point, my feeling is that the foreground, to me, The background, I want to be sort of warm and saturated, it's less important to me. I don't want my adjustment to apply to the entire image. So, what I'm going to do is, I'm going to come in here First, I'm going to Shift + Click, and the shift is just going to keep this line straight as I pull it down. And I'm going to pull it down a little further I'll start with it right there. I've got a couple sliders on here, I'm going to zero those out. And what I'm going to do so that you can see the effect is just pull the exposure down and…

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