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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
burning with the Adjustment Brush
can be.
Note:
I felt I needed to make one more
change to this image. If you look back
at Step 10, the yellow nose cone looks
too bright, so I used the Erase brush to
erase over it entirely. Then, I clicked the
New button, reset everything to 0, in-
creased the Exposure amount to +70,
and painted over just the cone (as shown
in Step 11) to get the final image here.
Before
After
