Exposure brush…..?

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Paul_Keith
Jan 20, 2004
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What whould be an equivalent tool for an "Exposure Brush", i.e.. I saw this on some other high end editor but can’t quite define it in Photoshop CS.
i.e., You have a face that need some ‘exposure’ or ‘auto levels’ type correction. You can select that area, of course, but the brush approach is often super convienient. Like the Burn Tool, which MIGHT just be an exposure equivalent. But I didn’t know the inner working of PS as you guys do.

Thanks,
Paul
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YrbkMgr
Jan 20, 2004
I don’t know of any real equivalent through v7 of photoshop except perhaps the Dodge tool which lightens or the Burn tool that darkens. That said, you can select an area with a brush (Quick Mask) and then pretty much do anything to it…

Peace,
Tony
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Paul_Keith
Jan 20, 2004
Thanks, I forgot about the Quick Mask-Brush function…sounds good.

Paul
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wes
Jan 20, 2004
Also you might try to select a color from the face and then use a Darken or Lighten mode to paint with.

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Thanks, I forgot about the Quick Mask-Brush function…sounds good.
Paul
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Pierre_Courtejoie
Jan 20, 2004
Paul, you can set up an action that launches an adjustment layer with a "hide everything" layer mask and just sart painting that adjustment, so the correction is dynamic and can be reverted by the "X" key.

Thanks Greg Vander Houwen for that excellent tip…
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barry_gray
Jan 20, 2004
Or adjust curves to bring out shadows then step back one in history and "paint" with history brush as much as you like. Repeat for high lights.
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Philo_Calhoun
Jan 20, 2004
There are lots of ways of doing this, like adjusting curves or levels and then masking it out and painting the mask with shades of grey. But something that often works better: use the history brush set to "multiply" or "screen" with an opacity of around 10-15%. It creates less colour saturation artifacts.

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