How To Use Brush In Lightroom

Starting from Lightroom Classic eleven.0 (October 2021 release), the post-obit workflows no longer employ. To access the latest tools for local adjustments, run across Masking.

The controls in the aligning panels in the Develop module let you affect the color and tone of an entire photo. Merely sometimes you don't desire to brand adjustments globally, to the entire photo. Yous want to make corrections to a specific area of a photo. For case, you may want to lighten a face to brand it stand out in a portrait or enhance the blue sky in a landscape. To make local corrections in Lightroom Classic, you tin employ colour and tonal adjustments using the Adjustment Brush tool and the Graduated Filter tool.

The Adjustment Brush tool lets you selectively apply Exposure, Clarity, Brightness, and other adjustments to photos past "painting" them onto the photograph.

The Graduated Filter tool lets you apply Exposure, Clarity, and other tonal adjustments gradually across a region of a photograph. You lot can make the region as wide or as narrow every bit you like.

As with all other adjustments applied in the Develop module in Lightroom Classic, local adjustments are nondestructive and are not permanently applied to the photo.

Video tutorial: Adjustment Castor nuts

Use an adjustment castor or filter issue

Select a photo to edit in the Library module and press D to switch to the Develop module. To switch to a different photograph in the Develop module, cull information technology from the Collections panel or the Filmstrip.


Select the Adjustment Brush tool or the Graduated Filter tool in the tool strip of the Develop module.

Choose the type of adjustment you want to make from the Effect pop-up bill of fare, or elevate the sliders:

Temp

Adjusts the colour temperature of an area of the epitome, making it warmer or cooler. A graduated filter temperature upshot can better images captured in mixed-lighting weather.

Tint

Compensates for a green or magenta color cast

Exposure

Sets the overall image brightness. Applying an Exposure local correction tin can achieve results similar to traditional dodging and burning.

Dissimilarity

Adjusts epitome contrast, mainly affecting midtones

Highlights

Recovers detail in overexposed highlight areas of an epitome

Shadows

Recovers particular in underexposed shadow areas of an image

Whites

Adjusts the white points in a photograph

Blacks

Adjusts the black points in a photo

Texture

Smoothens or accentuates textured details in your photo. Move the slider to the left to polish details; movement it to the correct to accentuate details. When you adjust the Texture slider, the color or tonality does not alter.

Clarity

Adds depth to an paradigm past increasing local contrast

Dehaze

Reduces or increases existing haze in a photo

Hue

Adjusts the hue in a photo. Select Utilise Fine Adjustment for precise adjustments.

Saturation

Adjusts the vividness of the color

Sharpness

Enhances edge definition to bring out details in the photo. A negative value blurs details.

Dissonance

Reduces luminance noise, which can become apparent when shadow areas are opened.

Moiré

Removes moiré artifacts, or color aliasing

Defringe

Removes fringe colors along edges

Color

Applies a tint to the expanse affected past the local correction. Select the hue by clicking the Colour swatch. The Color result is preserved if you convert the photo to black and white.

Other effects

Boosted effects are available for specific tasks, such as whitening teeth, enhancing irises, or softening skin tones.

Notation: If Burn down (Darken), Dodge (Lighten), Iris Enhance, Soften Skin, or Teeth Whitening is not available, choose Lightroom Classic > Preferences (Mac OS) or Edit > Preferences (Windows). In the Presets panel, click Restore Local Adjustment Presets.

Elevate the individual effect sliders to increase or decrease the values.

(Adjustment Brush tool only) Specify options for Adjustment Brush A:

Size

Specifies the diameter of the brush tip in pixels.

Feather

Creates a soft-edged transition betwixt the brushed area and the surrounding pixels. When you use the brush, the altitude between the inner and outer circumvolve represents the feather amount.

Menses

Controls the rate of application of the adjustment.

Automobile Mask

Confines brush strokes to areas of similar colour.

Density

Controls the amount of transparency in the stroke.

Drag in the photo to apply the result.

A pin appears at the initial application signal, and the Mask mode changes to Edit. For a Graduated Filter result, three white guides represent the center, depression, and high ranges of the event.

Change a Graduated Filter or Radial Filter using brush controls

You tin change Graduated Filter masks using brush controls. Once yous've added a mask, to access brush controls, select the Brush choice adjacent to New/Edit.

As appropriate, apply the + and - (Erase) brushes. Lightroom Classic lets you customize 3 different filter brushes: A (+), B (+), and Erase (-). You can customize the following settings for these brushes:

• Size : The size of the brush
• Feather : The amount of feathering for the brush
• Flow : How much paint is applied to the area for every stroke. For example, if the Catamenia is set to 20%, 20% paint forcefulness is applied for the starting time stroke. The subsequent stroke brings up the paint forcefulness to 40%.
• Density : The maximum opacity that the brush paints. If you have this setting at 40%, for example, the brush will not pigment opacity greater than forty%.

Enable the AutoMask option to paint inside the edges of an area. Lightroom Classic masks the expanse to ensure that your brushstrokes don't go across information technology. When you paint, ensure that the core role of the brush is within the surface area y'all want to pigment.

Filter castor settings

To reset whatsoever changes made to the three brushes: A, B, and Erase and revert them to their default states, click Reset Brushes.

Edit an Adjustment Castor or Graduated Filter/Radial Filter consequence

To edit an Aligning Brush or Graduated Filter effect, you can practice any of the following:

• Printing H to hibernate or show the pin and Graduated Filter guides, or cull a display fashion from the Show Edit Pins menu in the toolbar.
• Printing O to hide or evidence a mask overlay of the Adjustment Brush tool effect, or utilize the Prove Selected Mask Overlay option in the toolbar.
• Press Shift+O to wheel through a red, green, or white mask overlay of the Adjustment Brush tool effect.
• Drag the Effect sliders.
• Printing Ctrl+Z (Windows) or Command+Z (Mac OS) to undo your adjustment history.
• Click Reset to remove all adjustments of the selected tool.
• Remove an Aligning Castor effect or a Graduated Filter effect by selecting its pin and pressing Delete.
• (Adjustment Brush tool) Move the pointer over the pin and drag the double-pointing pointer to the correct to increment the outcome, or to the left to subtract the effect.
• (Aligning Brush tool) To disengage part of the aligning, select the Erase brush option, and paint over the aligning.
• (Graduated Filter tool) Drag the pin to move the centre point of the effect.
• (Graduated Filter tool) Position the pointer over the center white line until a curved, double-pointing pointer appears, and and then elevate to rotate the upshot.
• (Graduated Filter tool) Elevate an outer white line toward the border of the photo to aggrandize the effect at that terminate of the spectrum. Drag toward the center of the photograph to contract the event at that terminate of the spectrum.

Use local adjustments with colour, luminance, or depth range mask

Updated in the Oct 2018 release of Lightroom Classic

Using the Color Range Mask, Luminance Range Mask and Depth Range Mask  controls , you can quickly create a precise masking area on your photo for applying local adjustments.

You begin by creating a quick initial masking pick with Aligning Brushes or Radial Filter/Graduated Filter. Then, refine your option using the Color Range Selector to sample colors within the mask surface area, Luminance Range Selector or slider to set the luminance range endpoints of the choice mask, or Depth Range Selector or slider to set the depth range endpoints of the selection mask.

Work with Depth Range Mask

depth-range-mask

Depth Range Mask is available for merely those photos that have embedded depth map information. As of now, this is limited to HEIC files captured on Apple tree iPhone 7+, eight+ and X, XS, XS MAX, XR (come across the listing of supported Apple iPhones) using the Portrait mode in the congenital-in iOS camera app. If there is no available depth info for an image, Depth option is disabled in the Range Mask drib-downward.

Afterward making an initial pick mask on your photo with Adjustment Brushes or Radial Filter/Graduated Filters, you can refine the mask area based on the depth range of the choice.

Select a photo to edit in the Library module and printing D to switch to the Develop module. To switch to a different photograph in the Develop module, cull information technology from the Collections console or the Filmstrip.

Note:

To utilise adjustments with the Depth Range Mask to your existing HEIC images (with embedded depth map) whose Smart Previews were generated in Lightroom Archetype CC 7.five, you need to regenerate Smart Previews for such images after upgrading to the latest Lightroom Archetype version. This is to ensure that the depth map information is included in the Smart Preview files. Select the files for which you lot want to regenerate Smart Previews, and then click Library > Previews > Build Smart Previews.



HEIC photo with depth information to be edited in Develop module

Select the Adjustment Castor tool, the Graduated Filter tool, or the Radial Filter tool from the tool strip of the Develop module. Then, create an initial selection mask over a specific surface area of your photo that you lot want to correct.



Initial mask area created using a Graduated Filter that covers the whole photo

From the Brush settings expanse in the Aligning panel, cull the Range Mask type equally Depth from the drop-down listing. By default, Range Mask is set as Off.

To select a depth range within the mask area, do any of the following:

• Adjust theRange slider to define the endpoints of the selected depth range.
• SelectDepth Range Selector from the Range Mask panel. Click+drag an area on the photograph you want to adjust. Information technology is recommended to cull a smaller area using the Depth Range Selector tool to narrow down on a specific depth range.

The Depth Range Selector tool is an optional shortcut to refine the Range slider based on your pick.



Visualizing the depth mask created over objects in the foreground to use selective adjustments.

Select the Bear witness Depth Mask check box to view the depth of the image in black and white representation. The part of  photo in white represents the foreground, while the part of photo in black represents the groundwork. The ruby-red colour shows the bodily area masked which is an intersection of depth and local adjustment applied.

Employ the Smoothness slider to suit how polish the falloff is at either stop of the selected depth range.

For a more than precise view of the mask surface area, press Alt (Win)/Option (Mac) key area while moving the Range or Smoothness slider to become black and white visualization over your photo.



Local adjustments practical to the depth mask.

Subsequently refining the mask area, you lot can at present make selective adjustments from the Consequence pop-up bill of fare to create precise photographic edits.

Work with Color Range Mask

After making an initial choice mask on your photo with Aligning Brushes or Radial Filter/Graduated Filters, you can refine the selection mask based on the colors that you sample within the mask area.

Select a photo to edit in the Library module and press D to switch to the Develop module. To switch to a unlike photograph in the Develop module, cull it from the Collections panel or the Filmstrip.


Select the Brush tool from the tool strip of the Develop module. And so, create an initial pick mask over a specific surface area of your photo that you desire to right.

From the Castor settings area in the Adjustment console, choose the Range Mask type as Color from the drop-downward list. By default, Range Mask is set as Off.

Use Color Range Selector to sample color within the mask area. Do any of the following:

• To sample a single color inside the mask area, click Colour Range Selector at the required location on your photo.

• For more accurate colour selection, do any of the post-obit:
  • Click+drag an area around the colors in the photo that you want to accommodate.
  • Shift+click to add multiple color samples. You tin add upwardly to five color samples by holding Shift while clicking on the epitome.
• To remove an existing color sample inside the color range mask, Option(Mac)/Alt(Win)+click the sample that you desire to remove.
  



A Color Range Mask covering the background tones in the photo. The Colour Range Mask has been created by selecting an surface area that includes all background colors using Color Range selector most the upper-left of the photo. Then, using the Color Range slider to reduce the effect on the leaves.

Arrange the Amount slider to narrow or augment the range of selected colors.


For a more precise view of the mask area, printing Alt (Win)/Option (Mac) fundamental area while moving the Corporeality slider to go black and white visualization over your photo.

Printing Esc key to get out color sampling.



Local adjustments applied to the colour mask. Decreased Exposure, Highlights, and Saturation in the Furnishings bill of fare to darken the groundwork and brand the leaves stand out more.

Later refining the mask area, you can now make selective adjustments from the Effect pop-upwardly menu to create precise photographic edits.

Work with Luminance Range Mask

After making an initial option mask on your photo with Adjustment Brushes or Radial Filter/Graduated Filters, you can refine the mask expanse based on the luminance range of the selection.

Select a photograph to edit in the Library module and printing D to switch to the Develop module. To switch to a dissimilar photograph in the Develop module, choose it from the Collections panel or the Filmstrip.




Photo to be edited in Develop module

Select the Adjustment Brush tool, the Graduated Filter tool, or the Radial Filter tool from the tool strip of the Develop module. And so, create an initial pick mask over a specific area of your photo that you want to correct.



Initial mask area created using a Graduated Filter that covers the heaven in the photo

From the Brush settings area in the Adjustment panel, choose the Range Mask type asLuminancefrom the drop-down listing. By default, Range Mask is set as Off.



A Luminance Range Mask covering the lighter yellow clouds that occupy the majority of the central part of the scene.

To select a luminance range within the mask area, do whatsoever of the following:

• Adjust theRange slider to ascertain the endpoints of the selected luminance range.
• Select Luminance Range Selector from the Range Mask panel. Click+drag an expanse on the photograph you desire to adapt. Information technology is recommended to select a small area to narrow down on a specific luminance range.

The Luminance Range Selector tool is an optional shortcut to refine the Range slider based on your selection.

Select the Show Luminance Mask check box to view the luminance data of the photograph in black and white representation. The part in blood-red color shows the actual area masked which is an intersection of luminance and local adjustment applied.

Use the Smoothness slider to adjust how smooth the falloff is at either end of the selected luminance range.

For a more precise view of the mask area, press Alt (Win)/Option (Mac) primal surface area while moving the Range or Smoothness slider to go black and white visualization over your photograph.

Local adjustments applied to the Luminance Range Mask. Increased Temperature, Dissimilarity, and Highlights in the Effects card to enhance the colour dissimilarity in the scene.

Later on refining the mask area, yous tin at present make selective adjustments from the Consequence popular-up menu to create precise photographic edits.

Work with multiple local adjustments

When applying and working with multiple local adjustments, keep in mind the following:

• Click any pin to select it. A selected pin has a black heart. Non-selected pins are solid white.

• Press H once to show the selected pin; press H once more to hide all pins; press H a third time to prove all pins.

• When the Adjustment Brush tool is selected, just adjustment pins are bachelor to edit. When the Graduated Filter tool is selected, only graduated filter pins are available to edit.

• The Adjustment Brush tool drawer allows you to specify options for two brushes, A and B. Select a brush by clicking the letter, or switch between brushes by pressing the slash primal (/). Brush options "stick" regardless of the effect you lot choose to apply until y'all change them.

Create local adjustment consequence presets

To create local adjustment effect presets, follow these steps:

Using either the Graduated Filter or Adjustment Brush tool, apply an result.

Choose Salvage Current Settings Every bit New Preset from the Result pop-up menu.

In the New Preset dialog box, type a name in the Preset Name box and click Create.

The preset appears in the Upshot pop-up card.

Adjustment Castor tool presets do not include castor options.

How To Use Brush In Lightroom,

Source: https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/help/apply-local-adjustments.html

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