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changes from an area. You'll see the pin anytime you activate the Smart Brush again, even
after you've closed and saved your photo.
5.
Once Elements has selected the right area, adjust the effect (if necessary)
.
The Smart Brush gives you several ways to change what it's done:
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Choose a different adjustment
. Head to the Tool Options area and choose a dif-
ferent adjustment (see step 2). Elements automatically updates your image.
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Add another adjustment
. If you want to tweak your image in a second way,
head to the right end of the Tool Options area, click the little four-line square, and
then choose Reset Tool. Then you can drag in your image again and the Smart
Brush will put down an
additional
adjustment instead of just changing what
you've already done. You can also use this technique to double up an effect—to
add Lipstick twice, for instance—if you thought the first pass was too faint. Each
Smart Brush adjustment gets its own pin, so if you have two Smart Brush adjust-
ments in your photo, then you'll have two pins, too. (Each pin is a different color.)
You can add as many different adjustments as you like.
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Change the settings for and adjustment you've already applied
. Rather than
adding another Adjustment layer to increase the effect, you can adjust the settings
for the change you've already made. Double-click the adjustment's pin in your
image. Depending on the kind of adjustment you've made, a window or panel
pops up showing the current settings so you can tweak the effect you're brushing
on. (Not all the Smart Brush adjustments have adjustable settings.) Since the
Smart Brush uses Adjustment layers to make most of its changes, the available
settings are the same as they would be if you had created a regular Adjustment
layer. For example, if you're using the Brighter option, as shown in
Figure 7-3
,
then you get the settings for a Brightness/Contrast Adjustment layer.
