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Step 11:
Here are a couple of other things about the Adjustment Brush you'll want to know: The
Feather slider controls how soft the brush edges are—the higher the number, the softer the
brush (I paint with a soft brush about 90% of the time). For a hard-edged brush, set the
Feather slider to 0. The default brush settings are designed to have it build up as you paint,
so if you paint over an area and it's not dark enough, paint another stroke over it. This
build-up amount is controlled by the Flow and Density sliders at the bottom of the panel.
The Density slider kind of simulates the way Photoshop's airbrush capabilities work with
its Brush tools, but the effect is so subtle here that I don't ever change it from its default
setting of 100. The Flow slider controls the amount of paint that comes out of the brush (I
leave the Flow set at 100 most of the time these days, but if I decide I want to “build up,”
then I lower it to 50). Below is a before/after, which shows how useful dodging and burn-
ing with the Adjustment Brush can be.
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