Chapter 5. Local Adjustments: How to Edit Just Part of Your Images

Local Adjustments: How to Edit Just Part of Your Images

Exposure: 1/640

Focal Length: 70mm

Aperture Value: ƒ/2.8

In the original version of Lightroom, every slider you moved made what Adobe called a “global change” (the whole photo was affected equally), so if you wanted someone’s shirt to be redder, and you increased the amount of red, it didn’t just increase the amount of red in their shirt, it increased the amount of red in the entire photo. It was a global change. By the way, you may not know this, but Adobe has an entire department whose sole job is to come up with names for things that you would never use in everyday conversation to ...

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