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Refining local adjustments with brushes

Refining local adjustments with brushes - Lightroom Tutorial

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Refining local adjustments with brushes

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- [Instructor] Let's go back and fix that gradient, particularly up here. To do so I need to select the linear gradient and make sure it's active. I'll press the O key there to cycle the overlay and I see it. Now what I'll do is press the O key again so I see the mask overlay. Using the eraser tool I want to come in and start to erase away. I will turn on the auto mask so that I can clean this up. And as I drag you see it begins to pull through. In this case we can tighten that up substantially. Now I'm going to take this all the way down for a moment but I might change my mind. Using auto mask, what it's doing here nicely is it's making sure to recognize the edges of that object. That makes it simple to go through and clean up. There we go. I'll press the O key again to cycle through and let's select a change here. O once more to hide. That's definitely helping but I need to tighten that edge up a little.…

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