Graphics Programs Reference
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CHAPTER 7
how to edit just part of your images
I'll be the first to admit that “Local Adjust-
ments” isn't a great name for a chapter
on using the Adjustment Brush (and the
other local adjustment tools), but it's an
“Adob e -ism” for e diting ju st one s e c tion of
your image. Here's how they describe it:
Everything you do in Lightroom is a global
adjustment. It affects your entire image
globally. So, if you're affecting just one part
of your image, it's not global. It's local. So
what you're making is a local adjustment.
This would all make perfect sense if anyone
in the world actually thought that way, but
of course nobody does (not even the engi-
neer who thought up this term). You see,
we regular non-software-engineer people
refer to adjustments that affect the entire
photo as “adjustments that affect the
entire photo” and we refer to adjustments
that affect just one part as “adjustments
that affect just one part.” But, of course,
Adobe can't actually name functions with
those names, because then we'd clearly
understand what they do. Nope, when it
comes to stuff like this, it has to go before
the official Adobe Council of Obscure
Naming Conventions (known internally as
ACONC, which is a powerful naming body
whose members all wear flowing robes,
carry torches, and sing solemn chants with
their heads bowed). The ACONC types a
simple, understandable phrase into the
“Pimp Name Generator” (see page 125), and
out comes an overly technical name that
their sacred emissary (brother Jeff Schewe)
will carry forward into the world (after
which there is a great celebration where
they sacrifice an intern from the marketing
department, and a temp from accounting).
And that's how I met your mother.
