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Jan 22, 2019 19:49:39   #
markwilliam1
 
I find it Very Useful to use the adjustment brush to change the exposure in the Develop Module of Lightroom. I shoot Raw and can use the brush to lighten (or darken) exposure in certain areas of my photos with Amazing results! Anyone else?

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Jan 22, 2019 20:03:24   #
PixelStan77 Loc: Vermont/Chicago
 
markwilliam1 wrote:
I find it Very Useful to use the adjustment brush to change the exposure in the Develop Module of Lightroom. I shoot Raw and can use the brush to lighten (or darken) exposure in certain areas of my photos with Amazing results! Anyone else?
Agree!

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Jan 22, 2019 20:53:42   #
bsprague Loc: Lacey, WA, USA
 
In an old wet darkroom, we called it burning and dodging. It works better now!

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Jan 22, 2019 21:14:18   #
UTMike Loc: South Jordan, UT
 
Check out f/stoppers - they just posted an article on how to best use the adjustment brush in PS.

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Jan 22, 2019 21:17:45   #
Gene51 Loc: Yonkers, NY, now in LSD (LowerSlowerDelaware)
 
markwilliam1 wrote:
I find it Very Useful to use the adjustment brush to change the exposure in the Develop Module of Lightroom. I shoot Raw and can use the brush to lighten (or darken) exposure in certain areas of my photos with Amazing results! Anyone else?


It's ok for quick, imprecise adjustments. Much more control in On1, Topaz, Photoshop, etc. Also, LR bogs down when you have a lot of small local adjustments. I find it better to use LR for general global adjustments, some work with linear and radial gradients, but not much else.

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Jan 22, 2019 21:20:04   #
brucewells Loc: Central Kentucky
 
markwilliam1 wrote:
I find it Very Useful to use the adjustment brush to change the exposure in the Develop Module of Lightroom. I shoot Raw and can use the brush to lighten (or darken) exposure in certain areas of my photos with Amazing results! Anyone else?


The auto-mask functionality of the brush is very good. If you aren’t familiar with what it does, do some reading. It’s quite powerful. The brush can give (as you say) amazing results.

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Jan 23, 2019 08:01:24   #
mborn Loc: Massachusetts
 
I use the adjustment brush a lot to change certain areas in an image increase exposure, shadows etc

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Jan 23, 2019 08:18:00   #
Nikon1201
 
Yes , all the time and the radial filter.

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Jan 23, 2019 08:53:26   #
Rich1939 Loc: Pike County Penna.
 
bsprague wrote:
In an old wet darkroom, we called it burning and dodging. It works better now!


And a whole lot more precise.
AND if I over did it in the dark room there wasn't a "CTRL-Z"

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Jan 23, 2019 09:01:38   #
markwilliam1
 
What is a radial filter?
Nikon1201 wrote:
Yes , all the time and the radial filter.

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Jan 23, 2019 09:11:21   #
via the lens Loc: Northern California, near Yosemite NP
 
markwilliam1 wrote:
I find it Very Useful to use the adjustment brush to change the exposure in the Develop Module of Lightroom. I shoot Raw and can use the brush to lighten (or darken) exposure in certain areas of my photos with Amazing results! Anyone else?


I work both in LR and in PS and I find that the brush tool in LR actually gives me easier and faster control. In PS I have to remember if I am working on highlights or shadows or midtowns, but in LR I simply set the specific slider to where I want it and it does exactly what I want. I can even go around the edges and delete the overfill very easily, which I have not found out how to do in PS, although there must be a way to do that. I can also do shading for a variety of slider settings very easily in LR with the brush tool. People who say the tool is less than excellent are simply people who do not know how to use the tool.

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Jan 23, 2019 09:45:39   #
SusanFromVermont Loc: Southwest corner of Vermont
 
markwilliam1 wrote:
What is a radial filter?

It is the tool directly to the left of the adjustment brush. You should check it out - it basically puts a "spotlight" on an area in the image.

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Jan 23, 2019 09:48:25   #
ppage Loc: Pittsburg, (San Francisco area)
 
markwilliam1 wrote:
I find it Very Useful to use the adjustment brush to change the exposure in the Develop Module of Lightroom. I shoot Raw and can use the brush to lighten (or darken) exposure in certain areas of my photos with Amazing results! Anyone else?


It is a very effective tool for "local edits" which are edits of particular areas of a photo as opposed to "global edits" which used in a ham fisted way affect the entire images instead of just working on the parts of the image that could use work. You are definitely on the right path because the best editors discourage the use of global edits. Other local edits are gradient filter, radial filter, split toning and tone curve, all used to manipulate particular parts of an image without affecting others.

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Jan 23, 2019 10:06:14   #
markwilliam1
 
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ppage wrote:
It is a very effective tool for "local edits" which are edits of particular areas of a photo as opposed to "global edits" which used in a ham fisted way affect the entire images instead of just working on the parts of the image that could use work. You are definitely on the right path because the best editors discourage the use of global edits. Other local edits are gradient filter, radial filter, split toning and tone curve, all used to manipulate particular parts of an image without affecting others.
It is a very effective tool for "local edits&... (show quote)

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Jan 23, 2019 10:39:22   #
Nikon1201
 
Third one to the left of the adjustment brush

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