Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
There are a few other things you need to know that will help you get more
comfortable with the Adjustment Brush, and once you learn these (along with
the rest of the stuff in this chapter), you'll find yourself making fewer trips
over to Photoshop, because you can do so much right here in Lightroom.
#1:
You have a choice of how Lig ht ro om
displays the Edit Pins, and you make that
choice from the Show Edit Pins pop-up
menu down in the toolbar beneath the
Preview area (as shown here). Choosing
Auto means when you move your cursor
outside the image area, the pins are hidden.
Always means they're always visible and
Never means you never see them. Selected
means you only see the currently active pin.
#2:
To see your image without the edits
you've made with the Adjustment Brush,
click the little switch on the bottom left
of the panel (circled here in red).
#3:
If you press the letter
O
, the red mask
overlay stays onscreen, so you can easily
see, and fix, areas you've missed.
#4:
If you click on the little down-facing
triangle to the far right of the Effect pop-up
menu, it hides the Effect sliders, and instead
gives you an Amount slider (as shown here)
that provides a single, overall control over
all the changes you make to the currently
active Edit Pin.
#5:
Below the Auto Mask checkbox is the
Density slider, which kind of simulates the
way Photoshop's Airbrush feature works,
but honestly, the effect is so subtle when
painting on a mask, that I don't ever change
it from its default setting of 100.
