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Fine tune with the Adjustment brush

Fine tune with the Adjustment brush - Lightroom Tutorial

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Fine tune with the Adjustment brush

- [Instructor] Okay, so now it's time to do those final last minute adjustments that make this image perfect for sharing. So let's go and use the Adjustment Brush. Now the Adjustment Brush will only influence part of the image, which is great. It works just like almost any other brush. Right now it's set to Exposure which is what we want. We're going to want to have this whole region here become solid black. Now, I could go and adjust the exposure down right now, or I can do it after. It doesn't matter, it won't affect how we're painting, because we're painting basically a mask on. So I'm going to select down at the bottom corner here, Show Selected Mask. That will then let me see what I'm painting in bright red. So let's come down and pick my brush size. Now my brush size is about the right size for this, and I'm going to click Auto Mask. Now the reason I click Auto Mask is because it will assume that I want to stay within the region that I originally select. So here I've selected…

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