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step eleven: Before we get back<br />
to working on our church ceiling,<br />
I wanted to mention one more thing<br />
about Auto Mask. When it’s turned on,<br />
the brush runs a bit slower, because it’s<br />
doing “math” as you paint (determining<br />
where the edges are). So, if I’m painting<br />
over a big sky or wall or other area<br />
that doesn’t need the brush doing fancy<br />
math, I turn it off so things go faster.<br />
Okay, back to our church. I think that, at<br />
this point, you’ve got the idea: In a lot of<br />
images, there are some areas you want<br />
brighter and some you want darker, and<br />
this brush not only lets you do that, but<br />
you can add any of the other sliders, as<br />
well. This is awesome because you can<br />
brighten an area and make it sharper,<br />
or darken an area and make the color<br />
more saturated, too (great for skies).<br />
Let’s go ahead and darken and brighten<br />
a few more areas here (like darkening<br />
the dome at the top center. Then, I’d<br />
brighten the area along the bottom of<br />
the image, darken the two columns up<br />
top on the sides, and even lower the<br />
Highlights in the dome itself to bring<br />
back some detail there. You can see I’ve<br />
got nine Edit Pins now).<br />
tip: how do you know if<br />
you’ve missed a spot?<br />
Press the letter O on your keyboard<br />
to show a red mask over the area you<br />
painted on the active pin (to see it temporarily,<br />
move your cursor over the<br />
pin). If you missed an area, paint over<br />
it; if you spilled over onto something<br />
you didn’t want to, press-and-hold the<br />
Option (PC: Alt) key and paint it away.<br />
step twelve: Okay, now, how<br />
about a finishing move that I usually<br />
use in landscape photos to add an extra<br />
“kiss of light” to highlight areas in<br />
the image? Click the New button, make<br />
your brush pretty large, increase the<br />
Exposure to about 1.00, and then click<br />
once over highlight areas as though<br />
little beams of light are hitting them.<br />
Here’s a before/after.<br />
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