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Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop for Photographers
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Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop for Photographers

by Jan Kabili
June 2014
Beginner to intermediate
408 pages
11h 13m
English
Adobe Press
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6. Lightroom to Photoshop for Selecting and Masking

Lesson overview

Lightroom’s local adjustment tools may be all you need to bring out the beauty of individual areas in many photographs, but Photoshop’s ability to isolate part of a photograph for individual treatment is unmatched.

This lesson walks you through practical scenarios in which you’ll hand off photographs from Lightroom to Photoshop, use Photoshop selections and masks to work on targeted areas, and bring the results back into Lightroom.

Topics in this lesson include:

Making precise selections with Photoshop’s Quick Selection tool, Polygonal Lasso tool, Magnetic Lasso tool, and Pen tool

Recoloring objects using selections and masks with fill layers

Making targeted adjustments ...

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