From the course: Silhouette Photography: Shooting and Post Processing

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Gradient filter - Lightroom Tutorial

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- [Instructor] So we're continuing on editing the same file that we were using before. However, I found that this image was a little bit bottom heavy. There was too much darkness at the bottom. This is a perfect opportunity to dive into the Gradient Tool. Let's go look. Alright, so when I open up the Gradient Tool here, I can have lots of different effects. We're going to just start with Temp, it doesn't matter, and we're going to come and down at the bottom left hand corner, we're going to hit Show Selected Mask Overlay. When I do this and I'm dragging the gradient onto my image, I'll be able to see what part the images are affected and in what kind of percentage because if I go really far, there's going to be a nice gradual gradient. Now, if I pull that back down again, we're going to get a much more severe line. We're going to want something in between with this image so let's kind of adjust and pull this up. We only want to adjust the water at the bottom of the image but we also…

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