Auto Mask with the Radial and Graduated Filters As long as you have Auto Mask enabled, the brush adjustments will be limited to only the parts of the picture that are similar in color to where you actually click your pointer. The process can be even faster if you increase the size of your Adjustment Brush as far as it can go, making it easy to instantly apply an adjustment to virtually the whole picture at one time. The finished picture has adjustments applied only to the red and yellow areas, without anything creeping over into the green background. I only brushed on the top-left quadrant and left the Mask Overlay turned on so you can see how the adjustment brush was confined to just within the yellow circle. In the example below, I used this process to apply extra saturation to just the yellow circle.
Then click the “Show selected mask overlay” option at the bottom of the Develop window (or press O on your keyboard) so you can actually see where your adjustments are being applied. To do this process on your own, navigate to the Adjustment Brush panel, select a preset or move the sliders to your own liking, adjust the size of the brush, and then tick Auto Mask.
By using the Adjustment Brush Auto Mask feature, I can do exactly that. In this picture I want the reds and greens to really stand out, and while this could be accomplished with the Color sliders and adjusting the overall saturation of the red and green color values, I want a little more granular control of exactly what parts of the image I’m going to edit. It’s not the most stunning picture and won’t win any awards, but thanks to the Auto Mask feature it can at least be made to look a little more interesting. To show you just what the Auto Mask does, I’m going to make a few changes to this image of a water valve. Because the Adjustment Brush is circular in nature it can be tricky to confine your adjustments to specific areas, especially when working with angles or hard edges. In a nutshell, the Auto Mask option constrains the edits of the Adjustment Brush to a narrow band of colors that are very close to where you originally started brushing in your adjustments. What’s more, at the very bottom of the adjustment brush panel is a little check box called Auto Mask that can dramatically increase both the usefulness and effectiveness of this tool in general. When you look at all the features the adjustment brush tool offers, you can start to see just how powerful and useful it really is. You can even use multiple brush adjustments on the same photo and selectively erase your adjustments in case you want to undo anything.
You can select from various brush presets or move the sliders to create your own adjustments, then click and drag on the image itself to implement those adjustments.
This lets you change all sorts of parameters like exposure, contrast, clarity, sharpness, and more, but only on specific parts of a photo instead of altering the entire image at once. The best way to get started with the Auto Mask feature is to navigate to the Develop module in Lightroom and then click on the Adjustment Brush tool.
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You mean Lightroom has advanced image editing capabilities I don’t know about? Go on, tell me more… What is Auto Mask and how to find it?