Adobe Lightroom is one of the greatest tools out there if you want to work with photos. The extent of re-work and manipulation you can do in Lightroom is simply amazing. Lightroom has a lot of features but one of the most important ones is the adjustment brush. If you learn how to use the adjustment brush, you can do wonders with your photos. The tutorials below are exactly for that purpose, i.e. to share with you some amazing tricks using the adjustment brush:
These tutorials assume that you have a general overview on how to use the Lightroom software. If you don’t here is an exellent overview article to get you sarted.
1. Creating Masks:
This tutorial by Yanik Chauvin starts with a general overview of the adjustment brush and shows what each specific attribute (Size, Feather, Automask) does. He goes into a lot of details about creating and deleting masks.
2. Playing with Exposure:
This tutorial by Photocitizen focuses on toning down a picture with the help of the adjustment brush by using the exposure attribute.
3. Adding Drama To Your Photos:
If you have a boring or dull picture that you want to bring to life, this tutorial will show how to do just that using the adjustment brush.
4. Using The Color Swatch:
This tutorial goes over the color swatch attribute of the adjustment brush and how to use that to put really amazing effects in your photos.
5. Adjusting the brush:
This tutorial shares a great tip on how to change different settings of the adjustment brush like exposure e.t.c. right from within the picture without going to the toolbar.
6. Using Mask and Automask:
This tutorial shows what you can with adjustment brush if you want to just focus on one part of the picture and burn rest of the area.
