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?
In an old wet darkroom, we called it burning and dodging. It works better now!
Check out f/stoppers - they just posted an article on how to best use the adjustment brush in PS.
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.
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.
I use the adjustment brush a lot to change certain areas in an image increase exposure, shadows etc
Yes , all the time and the radial filter.
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"
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.
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.
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.
Third one to the left of the adjustment brush
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