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step three: The Adjustment Brush<br />
is found in the toolbox right above the<br />
Basic panel (it’s the tool on the far right,<br />
shown circled here), or just press the<br />
letter K on your keyboard. When you<br />
choose it, an options panel pops down<br />
(seen here) and you’ll see that you can<br />
paint using nearly all the same controls<br />
you have in the Basic panel, except<br />
that Vibrance isn’t there. (Rats!) But, at<br />
least we have other cool stuff, like noise<br />
reduction and moiré removal, so it kinda<br />
makes up for not having Vibrance. Kinda.<br />
With the Adjustment Brush, you choose<br />
which adjustment you want to paint<br />
with by dragging one or more of those<br />
sliders, and then you just start painting<br />
that adjustment right on your photo.<br />
tip: changing brush sizes<br />
To change your brush size, press the<br />
Left Bracket key to make it smaller or<br />
the Right Bracket key to make it bigger.<br />
step four: Since you don’t actually<br />
see the effect until you start painting<br />
on your photo, how do you know<br />
how far to move the sliders? Well, this<br />
is going to sound weird, but you don’t.<br />
You literally just make a blind guess at<br />
how much you think you might want of<br />
a particular adjustment, and then you<br />
paint over the area you want to adjust.<br />
Then, once you can see the adjustment,<br />
you go back to that slider and tweak the<br />
amount until it looks right. The good<br />
part is you get to make your final decision<br />
after you’ve painted over the area,<br />
so you can get it right on the money.<br />
For example, here I (1) got the brush,<br />
(2) dragged the Exposure slider to the<br />
right a bunch, (3) painted over the dark<br />
area on the right side of the dome to<br />
brighten it, and then (4) went back to<br />
the Exposure slider and lowered the<br />
amount until it looked right to me.<br />
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