Once your radial filter is set, simply go through your mask settings to make targeted exposure and color adjustments to your photo. This tool works best for drawing attention to a certain part of your image, such as a person. The Adjustment Brush is one of the most versatile selective adjustment tools in Lightroom. With additional settings to alter the brush softness and density, the options are limitless with this tool.
To access the adjustment brush, click on the long brush icon at the top of your toolbar. Before you brush the mask onto your image, take a look at your brush settings.
Here you can choose the size, feather, flow, and density of your brush adjustments. Once your brush settings are in order, just click and drag across your photo to create a mask. The adjustment brush works best for general adjustments or more targeted masks around a specific area or subject. The three types of masks you can create are called general masks, auto masks, and range masks. A general mask is the default setting for any selective adjustment you make. Rather than blending the selection area into your photo, it just applies adjustments equally across the entire mask.
This works perfectly for making blanket adjustments like darkening your sky or brightening up your subject. In fact, in most applications, this type of mask will be all that you need. For example, you may want to generally brighten the subject of your photo. The problem is, when you make the brightening adjustments, it makes your highlights too bright or perhaps washes out a particular color.
To get it perfect, you end up going back and forth with your brush settings to make it right. This ends up being a hugely annoying time suck. The adjustment brush spilled over and is now affecting the background.
Another example of general adjustments spilling over edges in negative ways. Ultimately, general masks are best used in situations where you want to make general selective adjustments. If you need to be more specific, try either of the following options instead! Auto Masks gives the adjustment brush a massive advantage and will make you feel like a masking hero. In terms of selecting particular objects and not accidentally adjusting surrounding areas, auto masks are the perfect tool.
The way auto mask samples color and exposure is from the center of your adjustment brush. This tends to work best around areas with lots of edge contrast or two drastically different colors. Since there is good edge contrast, this tool worked well. The auto mask feature is only available with the adjustment brush in Lightroom.
To enable it, check off the auto mask option within your brush settings. Range masks are a powerful blending option that can be used for all three of the selective adjustment tools in Lightroom. Rather than automatically selecting a general area, range masks use extreme precision to control how adjustments appear in your photo. Before you can apply a range mask, you need to first define a selection area in your photo.
The color range mask in Lightroom lets you sample a certain color to apply your adjustment to. This works exceptionally well if you want to target something like a colored shirt or the blue in the sky, for example. Then click on the eyedropper tool and sample a color in your photo that you want to target. With a color sampled, your mask will be refined to only affect that color range.
By moving this slider to the right, you increase the color tolerance to include additional colors similar in hue to your sample. The opposite will happen when moving the slider left, which will make your adjustments only affect the exact color you sampled. You can continue to add multiple colors to the same selection area by clicking on the eyedropper tool, holding shift, and sampling a different color. This will add the same adjustments to this newly sampled color range.
Hold the shift key to add multiple color samples to your range mask. Working in similar ways to the color range tool, luminance range masks use exposure to refine a selective adjustment in Lightroom. What makes it different in Lightroom now is that Adobe uses AI -- artificial intelligence systems trained on , real-world photos -- to automatically pick out photo regions instead of making you do the manual labor.
The new version of Lightroom , released in conjunction with the Adobe Max conference , can automatically select skies and make its best guess at what the subject of a photo is. Lightroom's AI picked out the subject of this photo with a detailed mask to make the child brighter without affecting other parts of the image.
The feature marks the steady progress of AI, in particular an approach called machine learning that's modeled loosely on human brains. The technology's utility in recognizing patterns in complex real-world data like speech, photographs and video has chipmakers scrambling to accelerate this increasingly important style of computing.
The masking technology, which Adobe previewed earlier this month, brings significant new complexity to Lightroom. A new masking panel lets you name masks, invert them, add to them or subtract from them and combine them into groups. You can see her work on Flickr , Behance and her Facebook page.
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