Adobe just released a new feature in Photoshop beta, and that is the adjustment brush.
Let's have a look at it right now.
At the time of this recording, the adjustment brush is only available inside the Photoshop
public beta.
Now, I have another tutorial which shows you how to download the beta.
So once we're running that, what you want to do is go to the brushes and we're going
to choose the adjustment brush.
Now, to use the adjustment brush, go to the top where it says adjustment, and you're going
to see that there are six different adjustments.
I'm guessing Adobe is probably going to add more later, but this is what we have right
now.
So let's have a look.
We'll start with the first one, which is brightness contrast.
And we're just going to look at how it works.
So I've selected an adjustment.
Notice nothing has happened yet.
But the moment that I click on my image with that adjustment, it creates a new adjustment
layer with the brightness contrast adjustment layer and a layer mask.
Now, the layer mask is black.
That means that everything is hidden on that layer.
So we've got the brush, and notice by default, the brush is set to a plus.
As I paint with this brush, it's going to apply this adjustment.
And you can see on the mask, it paints white in the areas we're applying it.
Now we can go up into the properties and we can adjust the settings.
So we can make it darker, we can make it lighter.
Double clicking will reset this to the zero position.
So let me just turn this right up really bright, and we'll turn the contrast up really high
right now, just so we can see how it works, and then we'll come back and make the adjustment.
So as we paint, We are applying that adjustment on that mask by painting with white.
If you look on the left-hand side, the foreground color is set to white.
If I want to paint it away, there's two different ways I can do it.
I can flip that by clicking or hitting the X key that sets the foreground color to black.
And now as I paint with that black, that will remove it.
Now, notice at the top here, and see how that brush now has changed from the plus to the
minus.
If I hit the X key, notice it's going to flip between the two.
The other way I can do it is to just have the plus paint.
If I click the minus, notice that that will automatically change that foreground color
to black, and then I paint it away.
So as you can see, the behavior is exactly the same as using a brush on an adjustment
layer.
All right, let's go ahead and make some quick adjustments to this photograph.
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So the first thing we're going to do is we're going to use the brightness contrast, and
I'm going to tap here.
This is going to apply the adjustment, and of course, I can paint.
So if I want paint around and brighten up this area here.
And by the way, if I hit the right bracket key, it'll make the brush larger.
The left bracket key will make it smaller.
All right, so let's just brighten up that area right there.
Now, let's go into the brightness I'm going to increase the contrast.
I'm going to bring the contrast down, and I'm going to increase the brightness.
So we're just brightening up around that area.
Now, what if we didn't want that person to be included?
We just wanted to brighten up that water and everything in the background.
See So what we can do is we can flip that, hitting the X key or hitting the minus.
And now we can go in and paint.
I'm going to hit the left bracket key to make it smaller.
Now it's very hard to see what's going on here.
So one of the One of the nice things that happens is the contextual toolbar also works
with this.
Let me drag it down a little bit closer to our image.
So let me drag it down closer to where we're working.
And we have the ability to show the mask.
So see that now we can see the mask.
That means when I'm painting away, I can see exactly where I'm painting it.
So it makes it easier to be more precise.
In fact, let's zoom in a little bit.
And notice this part paints away.
Hit the X key to switch to adding.
And we don't have to be perfect, just need to be close enough, and we can And we can
hide that now.
And we can see on that adjustment that it's brightening that area, but it's not brightening
our person anymore.
Now, what if we want to do some areas?
Would we want to darken some areas?
So if we want to add another instance of the same tool, what we can do is click on the
background first and we can tap again, and now it will create another one.
So this time, what we're going to do is we're going to take the brightness down.
We're going to darken with this one, and I'm just going to double click to reset that contrast.
Let's grab a larger brush and let's just paint.
So maybe we want to darken that sky down.
And notice we can do that very easily.
Now, you may be asking about brush control.
There is some brush control.
We can go under here and we can select the brushes we want.
So if we wanted to grab, say, a soft round brush, we can grab it here.
Now, you're used to the brush options button being there.
It's not there, but we still have brush options.
So if you're using something like a Wacom tablet or some a pressure sensitive tablet,
we can do that.
If we go on to window and choose the brush settings, now we have the ability to set things
like transfer, and now we can set opacity to pin pressure.
And that enables us to adjust how much of this goes on depending on how we paint.
So we could take our flow down.
Let's take our flow down quite low to around about 16 %. And now we can paint around the
edges add some a vignette effect if we wanted.
And that sound you hear is my Wacom tablet.
All right.
And if we look at this, we can see There's the shadow area that we applied.
There's the highlight area that we applied.
Now, you can also adjust the opacity.
So if the effect is too strong, you can just adjust it here.
So now if you want to add a different adjustment, we don't have to do anything.
We just simply go up the top here and we choose a different adjustment.
And why don't we do something like, say, a vibrance adjustment?
Okay, so now we select the Vibrance adjustment.
All we're going to do is just paint to start applying that.
So let's paint here.
And now we're going to add some vibrance to this part of the image.
Notice it creates the new layer, and we can see there's the setting We can see how that
color is more vibrant there?
So maybe we want to add a little vibrance to the water, to the center of the picture
here.
So that's a subtle adjustment, but I'm just punching the red in her backpack and in that
log there.
Now, we do have the ability to turn on pen pressure for size here or pen pressure for
opacity.
But I prefer to go under the brush settings here, and this will give us more control.
So if you want to see a more in-depth tutorial using this tool for dodging and burning and
using the brushes and pen pressure and stuff, let me know in the comments underneath.
So let's have a look and see what we've done.
We've got our before, and we have our after.
So let me know if you think this new tool will be useful.
Drop a comment underneath.
And when you finish doing this, you probably want to apply a nice color grade.
So check out my other tutorial here where I show how to use the color grading inside
of Lightroom and camera raw.
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