Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
Step Three:
At the bottom of the Adjustment Brush
panel, there is a really amazing Adjust-
ment Brush feature called “Auto Mask,”
which helps to keep you from acciden-
tally painting on things you don't want to
paint on (so it's great around the edges
of things). But, when you're painting over
something like a big sky, it actually slows
things down because it keeps trying to
find an edge. So, I leave the Auto Mask
checkbox turned off for stuff like this, and
here, I'll just avoid getting close to the
edges of the plane (for now, anyway). Go
ahead and paint over the sky (with Auto
Mask turned off), but of course, avoid get-
ting too close to the propeller blades or
the wings of the plane—just stick to open
areas of sky (as seen here). Notice how
the sky gets darker as you paint?
Step Four:
Once you've painted in most of the
sky (but avoided the prop and wings
of the plane), now you can tweak how
dark it is. Try lowering the Exposure to
-1.00 (as shown here) and the area you
painted over gets a lot darker. This is
what I meant by “you tweak it after the
fact.” Also, you see that green pin on
the right side of the image? That rep-
resents this one adjustment (you can
have more than one, which is why you
need a way to keep track of them.
More on this coming up).
TIP: Deleting Adjustments
If you want to delete any adjustment
you've made, click on the adjustment's
pin to select that adjustment (the cen-
ter of the pin turns black), then press
the Delete (PC: Backspace) key on
your keyboard.
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