Brush Adjustment
A local edit painted onto specific areas of an image with an adjustable brush.
Measured in
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In depth
Brushing gives complete freedom over where an adjustment lands, at the cost of precision on complex edges. Auto-mask options constrain the brush to areas of similar colour, which helps considerably on subjects like a roofline against sky. Feather and flow settings determine whether the result blends invisibly or shows as an obvious patch.
Examples in practice
Brushing +0.5 EV of exposure onto a shaded face lifts it without touching the correctly exposed background.