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Oct 07 2008

The Adjustment Brush – My Favorite New Tool

Posted by jeff in Uncategorized

I am a huge fan of the Adjustment Brush in Lightroom 2.  It has turned some of the most time consuming tasks into operations that just take minutes to perform.  I used it for the images I posted yesterday, primarily to burn in the area around the subject.  Too see just how quickly it was done, check out the video below.

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  1. clickblog says:
    November 3, 2008 at 6:47 am

    Come usare il pennello di Lightroom…

    Lightroom è uno dei software più utilizzati per il fotoritocco delle immagini RAW. Questo video mostra come funziona e quali vantaggi ha lo strumento pennello integrato rispetto ad utilizzare un software esterno come photoshop.
    Via | RevellP…..

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  1. misschatter says:
    October 7, 2008 at 9:46 am

    Great tutorial. Thanks! I have played with that feature, but haven’t really mastered it yet. I had no idea what the auto-masking did or how to show the mask. I’m going to have to rewatch and figure out how you sharpened everything except the skin too.

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  2. mannedspace says:
    October 7, 2008 at 10:59 am

    Thanks for the info, Jeff. I really have not played with my lightroom because I have too much fun in CS3; but, it is very tedious to mask out complicated images especially the slides I’ve scanned in. Looking forward to getting the CS4!

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  3. Patty Hankins says:
    October 7, 2008 at 1:26 pm

    Jeff

    Awesome video. I’ve been trying to figure out the adjustment brush – this really helps.

    Thanks for posting the tutorial

    Patty

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  4. mike meyer says:
    October 7, 2008 at 2:25 pm

    Thanks for the video, it’s so much easier than reading a book. Maybe you should do all your blogging via video. Then we could all leave video comments. An all video blog.

    mike meyer

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  5. Shawn Grimes says:
    October 7, 2008 at 3:09 pm

    This is a great tutorial. I’ve been under utilizing this tool for far too long. Thanks!

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  6. janet says:
    October 8, 2008 at 8:21 am

    Thanks Jeff, This video was/is exactly what I was looking for, at the right time. Perfect, easy to follow and thank you! Janet

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  7. Dominic Cimesa says:
    October 8, 2008 at 11:15 am

    Thanks a lots Jeff. Great tutorial!!

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  8. SurfOC says:
    October 8, 2008 at 2:27 pm

    Thanks for the great tutorial.. I have been trying to figure out the best way to use the brush, and this helped a ton.

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  9. Steve Kalman says:
    October 9, 2008 at 3:10 am

    Jeff,

    Thanks for another great tutorial. Your HDR tutorial got me started with HDRs and they’ve given me some great pictures, including my personal favorite, LIme Kiln Point lighthouse from San Juan Island, Wa. (taken on a DLWS with Moose and others).

    After watching your brush tutorial, I went back to a picture I took mid-afternoon at a temple in Egypt (doesn’t get any brighter than that). The main subject is a woman my wife and I met on the tour, but there’s a ton of distracting background. All I was able to do before in PS was apply a gaussian blur to it (dodge and burn in PS isn’t easy). This morning I went in and did much the same as you did in the tutorial. I’m quite pleased with the results and she will be, too.

    Thanks again. Hopefully I’ll be able to meet you on a Photowalk. I get to DC a few times a year and twice now have missed a walk by less than a week.

    Happy travels.

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