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Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Digital Image Processing => Topic started by: larkis on May 03, 2015, 03:57:24 pm
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Since Lightroom does not have a blacks or lights control in the adjustment brush tool, has anyone found some useful trick for replicating the effect ? I basically want to push my whites up in one area and don't want to go into photoshop just to do a levels adjustment layer.
Thanks for any tips in advance.
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Shadows and Highlights brushes?
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Use the highlight adjustment brush then localize it as much or as little as you like using auto mask and/or painting in and out whatever area(s) you want. No need for PS for that.
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Use the highlight adjustment brush then localize it as much or as little as you like using auto mask and/or painting in and out whatever area(s) you want. No need for PS for that.
The highlight and shadow brush don't seem to do the same thing as the blacks and whites sliders. I want to push the value of the pixels that are under the brush towards white, as if moving the white slider in a traditional levels control from 255 towards 1. The "blacks" and whites" sliders in the basic controls behave more like what I would expect.
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Yeah I often want to do the same thing. I usually end up doing a combination of exposure, highlights, shadows and contrast. Remember, half (or thereabouts) of the contrast slider will push up the brighter tones. So using that, and then compensating the darkening of darker tones with the exposure and shadows slider, can sometimes produce an ok result. But yeah, I really wish the adjustment brushes had the same sliders as available globally. I don't know why they don't.
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Since Lightroom does not have a blacks or lights control in the adjustment brush tool, has anyone found some useful trick for replicating the effect ? I basically want to push my whites up in one area and don't want to go into photoshop just to do a levels adjustment layer.
Thanks for any tips in advance.
or think the other way around. With the basic adjustments slider push the white and black. Then with adjustments brush reduce the white and black where needed.
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That's given me an idea for a feature request: Being able to invert the adjustment brush selection. I want it, and I want it NOW!!1
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That's given me an idea for a feature request: Being able to invert the adjustment brush selection. I want it, and I want it NOW!!1
This is a common request.
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Another thing they should add is feathering of masks after they have been painted. Or perhaps a feather/blur brush. To many times I want to start with a sharp selection and feather it out later. A little layer window that keeps track of which dot is what adjustment would be nice as well. How about a photoshop alpha channel> Lightroom selection "bridge" of some sort ? Make your articulated selections in photoshop, transfer them to Lightroom.
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The highlight and shadow brush don't seem to do the same thing as the blacks and whites sliders.
In theory, no they don't, but in practice, you'll find they do (or at least come darn close to whitening highlights), particularly if you add some contrast as was also suggested.