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step five: Once you stop painting,
you’ll see that a little white circle
with a black dot in the center appears
on your image right at the spot where
you started painting. (If you don’t see
the black dot, look down in the toolbar
under your image and make sure Auto,
Always, or Selected appears after Show
Edit Pins. If you don’t see the toolbar,
press T.) That’s called an Edit Pin (shown
circled here in red), and it represents the
change you just made to the right side
of the dome. As long as you see a black
dot in the center, it means that adjustment
is “active,” and if you start painting
again right now it just adds to what
you’ve already painted. So, let’s continue
painting around the rest of the dark
areas surrounding the dome (as shown
here, where that area is much brighter
now). By the way, that little Edit Pin automatically
hides as you paint.
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step six: When you’re done brightening
around the dome, and you now
want to adjust a different area (for
example, let’s say you want to darken
[burn] the gold ceiling on the left center
of the image, so it’s not too bright),
you can’t just drag the Exposure slider
over to the left and start painting. That’s
because your Edit Pin for the dome is
still active. Moving the Exposure slider
will make the area you painted around
the dome darker. You have to tell Lightroom
to “Leave what I did around the
dome alone. Now, I want to paint a totally
separate adjustment, somewhere
else in the photo, with different settings.”
You do that by clicking the New
button at the top of the Adjustment
Brush panel. Now, you can lower the Exposure
amount and start painting over
that bright middle-left ceiling area without
disturbing your original brightening
of the area around the dome. Each time
you want to paint with a different set of
adjustments (so that area is controlled
separately from the last area you painted),
click the New button.