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my first play with LR2 local adjustments

Monday, April 21, 2008 2:03:17 PM

I have had a quick play with Adobe Lightroom 2 beta. It has the ability to make localised adjustments. In version 1 if you play with fill light, exposure, clarity etc. you make adjustments to the whole image (or to that part of the histogram but across the whole image).

Here is my 10 minute attempt to use localised adjustments to that shadow under Elliot's hat. It was just a few strokes with a brush without caring for the edge - the auto masking means you can brush almost without care. Once the region is defined you can play with the amount of adjustment to apply. I tried to increase the exposure to bring out some more detail.

You can see I'm no pro, and the really hard edge of the shadow along the cheek probably means it was a bad example to start with - but here we go anyway.

The original

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A big bump in exposure

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a small bump in exposure, probably the most pleasing ?

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What I do like is that I can do this sort of thing without needing to go to Photoshop. No need to understand masks, layers, fill etc. etc. etc. woo hoo !

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