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The controls in the adjustment panels in the
Develop module let you affect the color and tone of an entire photo.
But sometimes you don’t want to make adjustments globally, to the
entire photo. You want to make corrections to a specific area of
a photo. For example, you may want to lighten a face to make it
stand out in a portrait or enhance the blue sky in a landscape.
To make local corrections in Lightroom, you can apply color and
tonal adjustments using the Adjustment Brush tool and the Graduated
Filter tool.
The Adjustment Brush tool lets you selectively
apply Exposure, Clarity, Brightness, and other adjustments to photos
by “painting” them onto the photo.
The Graduated Filter tool
lets you apply Exposure, Clarity, Brightness, and other tonal adjustments
gradually across a region of a photo. You can make the region as
wide or as narrow as you like.
As with all other adjustments
applied in the Develop module in Lightroom, local adjustments are
nondestructive and are not permanently applied to the photo.
Apply an Adjustment Brush or Graduated Filter effect- Select the Adjustment Brush tool
 or
the Graduated Filter tool  in
the tool strip of the Develop module.
- Choose the type of adjustment you want to make from the
Effect pop-up menu:
- Exposure
- Sets the overall image brightness, with a greater effect
in the high values.
- Brightness
- Adjusts image brightness, mainly affecting midtones.
- Contrast
- Adjusts image contrast, mainly affecting midtones.
- Saturation
- Changes the vividness or purity of the color.
- Clarity
- Adds depth to an image by increasing local contrast.
- Sharpness
- Enhances edge definition to bring out details in the
photo. A negative value blurs details.
- Color
- Applies a tint to the selected area. Select the hue by
clicking the Color swatch. The Color effect is preserved if you
convert the photo to black and white.
- Other effects
- Additional effects are available for specific tasks,
such as whitening teeth, enhancing irises, or softening skin tones.
Note: If
Burn (Darken), Dodge (Lighten), Iris Enhance, Soften Skin, or Teeth
Whitening is not available, choose Lightroom > Preferences
(Mac OS) or Edit > Preferences (Windows). In
the Presets panel, click Restore Local Adjustment Presets.
- Drag the individual effect sliders to increase or decrease
the values.
- (Adjustment Brush tool only) Specify options for Adjustment
Brush A:
- Size
- Specifies the diameter of the brush tip in pixels.
- Feather
- Creates a soft-edged transition between the brushed area
and the surrounding pixels. When you use the brush, the distance
between the inner and outer circle represents the feather amount.
- Flow
- Controls the rate of application of the adjustment.
- Auto Mask
- Confines brush strokes to areas of similar color.
- Density
- Controls the amount of transparency in the stroke.
- Drag in the photo to apply the effect.
A pin  appears
at the initial application point, and the Mask mode changes to Edit.
For a Graduated Filter effect, three white guides represent the
center, low, and high ranges of the effect.
Edit an Adjustment Brush or Graduated Filter effect Do any of the following:Press H to hide or show the pin and Graduated
Filter guides, or choose a display mode from the Show Edit Pins
menu in the toolbar.
Press O to hide or show a mask overlay of the Adjustment
Brush tool effect, or use the Show Selected Mask Overlay option
in the toolbar.
Press Shift+O to cycle through a red, green, or
white mask overlay of the Adjustment Brush tool effect.
Drag the Effect sliders.
Press Ctrl+Z (Windows) or Command+Z (Mac OS)
to undo your adjustment history.
Click Reset to remove all adjustments of the selected
tool.
Remove an Adjustment Brush effect or a Graduated
Filter effect by selecting its pin and pressing Delete.
(Adjustment Brush tool) Move the pointer over the
pin and drag the double-pointing arrow to the right to increase
the effect, or to the left to decrease the effect.
(Adjustment Brush tool) To undo part of the adjustment,
select the Erase brush option, and paint over the adjustment.
(Graduated Filter tool) Drag the pin to move the
center point of the effect.
(Graduated Filter tool) Position the pointer over
the center white line until a curved, double-pointing arrow appears  , and
then drag to rotate the effect.
(Graduated Filter tool) Drag an outer white line
toward the edge of the photo to expand the effect at that end of
the spectrum. Drag toward the center of the photo to contract the
effect at that end of the spectrum.
Work with multiple local adjustmentsWhen applying and working with multiple local
adjustments, keep in mind the following:
Click any
pin to select it. A selected pin has a black center. Non-selected
pins are solid white.
Press H once to show the selected pin; press H again to hide
all pins; press H a third time to show all pins.
When the Adjustment Brush tool is selected, only adjustment
pins are available to edit. When the Graduated Filter tool is selected,
only graduated filter pins are available to edit.
The Adjustment Brush tool drawer allows you to specify options
for two brushes, A and B. Select a brush by clicking the letter,
or switch between brushes by pressing the slash key (/).
Brush options “stick” regardless of the effect you choose to apply
until you change them.
Create local adjustment effect presets- Using either the Graduated Filter or
Adjustment Brush tool, apply an effect.
- Choose Save Current Settings As New Preset from the Effect
pop-up menu.
- In the New Preset dialog box, type a name in the Preset
Name box and click Create.
The preset appears in the Effect pop-up menu.
Note: Adjustment
Brush tool presets do not include brush options.
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