- [Instructor] My room classic
has three selective edit tools.
They're found in the tool strip at the end here.
we have the graduated filter, the radial filter,
and the adjustment brush.
I'm going to demonstrate all three selective edit tools
on this photo of my puppy Jamison.
You can find the photo in the chapter seven
or seven or eight folder to follow along.
We'll start with the graduated filter,
and I'll press the M key on my keyboard to switch to that.
To apply a graduated filter,
you just click and drag out over an area
that you want to mask.
And I want to darken the right side of this image down
so that the attention is pulled towards Jamison's face.
So I'll just click and drag to the left,
and we'll see that that was added
but nothing really changed here
because we haven't applied any edits
in this field over here.
Also it's pretty hard to see
what the mask is actually doing here
with it in this view.
So if you come to the bottom of the toolbar,
and click where it says show selected mask overlay,
now we can see this red area is the mask,
and the space between the middle line is the feather.
So if you click one of the outer lines and pull it in,
it'll reduce the feather.
You can do that on either side,
you can click on the centre and move the whole mask around.
Now I'll hide the mask overlay so we can see the edit.
I'm going to take the highlights all the way down,
and that's still not dark enough.
So I'll take the exposure down too,
and then maybe take some saturation out
so that the blues aren't so saturated,
and that'll help draw our attention
to Jameson's face as well.
Let's add a couple more of these graduated filters
in the other corners.
So I'll click on new and I'll come up
to the upper left corner and drag one out over here
and take the exposure
and the highlights down on this as well.
Let's maybe go a little bit darker,
maybe drag this in a little bit further.
And then we'll add one in the lower left corner.
And this one remembered the settings
from the previous one that I applied.
Now let's switch to the radial filter to brighten his face.
And I'll use the shift M key to do that,
we see all the same edit possibilities here.
And to add a radial filter, you click and drag out
and that creates a circle or a radial shape.
You can reposition it by clicking in the centre
to move it around, or you can change the size of it
by grabbing on a side handle.
Now I want to turn the mask overlay on for this
so that we can see where the edit is going to get applied.
You can use the O key on your keyboard,
to toggle that on and off.
Notice in the toolbar it turned it on.
And it's a good thing that we did this
because this shows us that the mask
is actually outside of the circle,
and I want to brighten the inside of the circle.
So we have to come over here
and click invert to switch that around.
Then I'll hit the O key on my keyboard again
to turn the mask overlay off and take the whites up.
Whenever I want to brighten something in a mask,
I use whites and it doesn't take a lot,
just a little bit will create a natural looking brightness
like you put a spotlight there.
I think I'd like to add a little texture
so that its fur gets really sharp looking too.
But to see that we need to zoom in.
So I'll hold my space bar to switch to the zoom tool,
and I'll click to zoom in.
And then with the space bar still depressed,
I'll pan over so that we can see in this area
where the fur is, and then take the texture up a little bit
and see how that adds some nice details.
Let's finish this by painting his eye
with the adjustment brush.
We can switch to the adjustment brush with the K key,
and then I'll use my space bar again
to get the pan tool so I could put the eye in the centre.
And then I'll just paint his eye.
We can't see what I painted though,
I need to turn on that mask overlay.
So I'll hit the O key, so that we can see it
and then I'll just paint his eye in here really quick.
If I made a mistake, I come over here down where it says,
brush A B, I can click on erase
and then maybe clean that up.
I'm not going to worry about being too particular here.
Let's hide the mask overlay with the O key.
Add some clarity
and maybe open the shadows so his eye gets brighter,
and then maybe take the blacks down,
so the black areas are nice and dark.
And then I'll hit the space bar,
to be able to zoom this back out.
And I'll click zoom back out.
That's looking really good what do you think?
I'll click done to commit this,
and then I'll use the backslash key
to do a before and after, pretty amazing!
With a handful of selective edits applied to this image,
we were able to improve the photos composition,
and draw attention to Jamison's cute face.
This was a pretty quick overview of selective editing.
If you'd like to learn more about each selective edit tool,
check out the selective edits chapter in my course,
Lightroom, Get Professional Results.