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Hey welcome my name is Chris Orwig and in this movie we are going to do a little back to the future tip. You have this photograph and I like this photograph I the composition I like the expression yet in the previous version of Lightroom, there was not a tool that would help me really finish off this particular image.
Now there is new tool inside of Lightroom 2.0 and it is called the adjustment brush. And that tool really helped me bring this image to life. All right let us go ahead and select the adjustment brush and you can do that by clicking on the adjustment brush from the tool strip here or you can press the K key to access that tool as well.
So go ahead and press the K key. And once I have selected the adjustment brush and then you just choose an effect. The first effect that I am going to work on is exposure. So I will go ahead and select exposure from this pop up menu, I am going to increase the exposure quite a bit here. I want to choose a brush size that will give me the ability to brighten up the area of the shadows here.
So I am going to go ahead and brighten up some of the shadows, and I have a nice small brush size, medium amount of feather and a low flow. I am going to simply paint around this area of the eye, now I have turned auto mask off and I have turned auto mask off because I want this particular adjustment to flow a little bit and to travel into some of the other areas of the eye there. To see the before and after I can toggle this switch here, before and after.
Okay a very subtle effect so I need to build it up just to touch more and again bring it a little bit more light into those areas of the eyes. Make my brush size smaller by pressing the left bracket key and I will work on those darker shadows underneath the eyes here. Now again, I am slowly brightening that up, increase my flow a touch more to get in to the darker areas.
And so far so good, let us look at our before and after. Here is our before, and our after. Okay, one of the things I noticed is that I have gone too far. Now, what do you do when you have gone too far? I have brightened the underneath area of the eyes too far, a couple of things. I can choose the erase option. Now, with this erase option I can erase this effect, nice small brush, flow bring it down, feather again medium sized feather.
And now when I paint over that, I am going to paint away that brightening effect and I could slowly erase that particular effect. So I am going to go through it, slowly bring that down. Look at my overall before, and then after. Now, I like that. I think I am going to the good direction so I will go back to my regular brush here, and think if there is anything else that I need to do with this particular image.
Now, one of the things that I noticed that I may want to do is change the overall exposure. Now, if I increase this drastically, we are going to see that it is too high so what I want to do is just bring that down just a touch. I tend to like to have the adjustment a little bit high, and then bring it down at the end because if I have it a little bit high I can see my edges.
Okay, that is a typical way to use the adjustment brush. How else can I use this tool? I will go ahead and click new to create a new adjustment brush. Next, I am going to zoom in. I am going to zoom in by pressing command+ on the Mac ctrl+ on a pc. One of the things I noticed is that the teeth are a little bit yellow. If only I could correct the color there.
Actually, I can. From the effect pull down menu, I am going to choose color. Now, color is really actually kind of interesting. What is going to happen here is I want to add or remove some color here. I want to remove some of the yellow. So go to my color picker and I am going to choose white. So I am going to have a nice bright white color there. And then close that, next, I am going to the desaturation slider and remove the saturation. Now I need a brush size that is nice and small.
I want to have auto mask turned on for this, nice low flow there, medium amount of feathering. And I am going to look to just paint across the teeth here. Now what is going to happen as I paint across the teeth here is that this effect is going to slowly be brought into the image. Now there is something that you have to be careful of when you are whitening teeth. Teeth actually are not white, they do need to have a little bit of yellow inside of them.
They need to have a little bit of hue because, if teeth are white, it is just a little unnatural. And then, you will notice that it becomes a little bit too strong. The node is in my way, I cannot quite see my effect or that pen that we can see there. Press the H key that will then hide that, so now I have hided that effect. Now, let us look at our overall before and after. Here is our before, and then our after.
Those teeth look much better. Now another thing that I would like to do is just brighten them up a little bit, so increase the exposure just a touch as far. As the saturation goes I am going to bring a little bit of that saturation back so I am not going to quite desaturate it so far. Again, one of the techniques that I found to be helpful with the adjustment brush is to go a little bit farther than you think so you can see what is actually happening and then back it off.
Find that sweet spot. So then I am looking to try to find that sweet spot. Another way to do that is to click on this toggle switch here. This will determine the overall amount of the effect and here I can pull that way back and that will control all the sliders so again I can then find that sweet spot where it is not over exaggerating the whiteness of the teeth.
But it is improving the overall image. Now, that can only be done with Lightroom 2.0 and that is one of the reasons that I love Lightroom 2.0, that adjustment brush helps me make those improvements really quickly because I do not have to wait for the rendering of the file and then because it is all done raw. It is all non destructive. If ever I do not like those improvements that I have made, those subtle yet significant improvements I can go back delete them or continually modify them.
All right, that wraps up this tip.
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