In Lightroom this is the Adjustment Brush, but in other programs it’s simply a Brush tool.
You can adjust the size, softness, opacity and ‘flow’ of the brush to control the size of the area you’re affecting, how your adjustments blend in with what’s around them and how quickly the effect builds up. It’s basically a freehand brush that you use to ‘paint’ an adjustment over your image. This is the simplest kind of adjustment tool.
So let’s take a look at the typical local adjustment and masking tools in non-destructive photo editors. Unlike masks in Photoshop and other traditional photo editors, local adjustments in non-destructive editors are not pixel-based, so you can move masks and resize them at will. Either way, you can change both the mask and the adjustments after you’ve created them. Lightroom, for example, offers adjustment presets that are added at the same time as your mask. You can start by creating a mask and then choosing your adjustments, or you can choose your adjustments and then create the mask. How local adjustments work You can use local adjustments to darken skies, lighten your subject or carry out any number of other enhancements on specific areas of your photos. There is some increasing crossover between old-school selection tools in programs like Photoshop and the non-destructive local adjustments in Lightroom, for example. You don’t have the same fine control over selections at a pixel level, but that’s often not what you want in photo editing anyway. Instead, in programs like Lightroom, Capture One, Exposure X and others, ‘local adjustments’ is probably a better description.
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In a traditional photo editor like Photoshop you would probably talk about making ’ selections’ or ‘ masks’ to edit specific areas, but with the rise of non-destructive editing, software no longer modifies image pixels so directly or so precisely. So how do they work and which software does them best?
It means picking out an area of an image for adjustment while leaving the rest unchanged. ‘Local adjustments’ is a bit of a catch-all term. Non-destructive editors like Capture One, Lightroom and others offer ‘local adjustment’ like radial masks for enhancing specific areas of a photo.
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