Targeting edits with the Adjustment Brush

After you've made adjustments that affect a photo globally, you may see specific …areas of the photo that need further individual edits. …Lightroom 5 has a toolbar of local Adjustment tools that you can use to make …targeted adjustments. In this chapter we'll look at some of …those tools. The Spot Removal tool, the Graduated …Filter tool, the Radial Filter tool, and in this movie, the Adjustment Brush tool. …The Adjustment Brush tool is perhaps the most useful of all these local Adjustment tools. …Because you can use it to paint in combinations of adjustments. …Wherever you need them in a photo. To start using the Adjustment Brush tool, …I'll click it's icon in this toolbar. An that opens a panel with controls for …the Adjustment Brush tool. This panel looks similar to the Basics panel.…

You know you're in the Adjustment Brush panel, rather than the Basics panel, …because here at the top left it says, Mask. …An the reason it reads Mask here, is that under the hood the adjustment brush tool …