Brushes & Exposure

Today, I have a prize for you. We're going to cover brushes and exposure in Lightroom. If you're anything like me, finding things in photo editing software can be overwhelming. As a result, I haven't done much editing other than really really basic things (like the direct positive which we will talk about here too).

Here's how the picture looked SOOC (straight out of the camera)

I went into Develop and added Direct Positive, Auto Tone, and Punch (in that order). It made the picture look great but Sister K's face was way too washed out and since she doesn't often look at the camera, this was unacceptable.

To fix, I went to the brush tool. I brought down the exposure, scaled down the brush size and brushed over her face. The nice thing is, if I don't like the exposure level, I don't have to redo the brushing, I just slide the exposure over and it changed what I already brushed as long as it's selected.



Much better!