{"id":11804,"date":"2020-07-09T12:22:32","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T12:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mcfade.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11804"},"modified":"2020-07-09T12:22:32","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T12:22:32","slug":"make-your-photos-shine-with-the-lightroom-brush-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcfade.co.uk\/blog\/make-your-photos-shine-with-the-lightroom-brush-tool","title":{"rendered":"Make your photos SHINE with the LIGHTROOM Brush Tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>The Lightroom Brush Tool<\/h1>\n<h2>Stand out with Selective Editing<\/h2>\n<p>Some images really stand out when you see them on Instagram or Facebook, parts of the shot just look so much better than you could ever achieve using normal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adobe.com\/uk\/products\/photoshop-lightroom.html\">Lightroom<\/a> techniques.&nbsp;The secret to creating these kinds of images is to get selective using the Lightroom Brush Tool<\/p>\n<p>All that means is that you apply settings to small parts of the photograph rather than everything at once. Is so you may want to just brighten somebody&#8217;s eyes, or perhaps make some rocks stand out in the foreground of Your Landscape image, this is where the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adobe.com\/uk\/products\/photoshop-lightroom.html\">Lightroom<\/a> Brush Tool comes in.<\/p>\n<p>In this tutorial video, we show you how to to use the Lightroom Brush Tool on a photograph taken in the <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mcfade.co.uk\/blog\/5-landscape-photography-locations-in-yorkshire\/%20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"5 Landscape Photography Locations in Yorkshire\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\" data-wpil-monitor-id=\"157882\">Yorkshire Dales<\/a>. Also, I show you how to save the settings away for another day &#8211; Lightroom allows you to keep settings safe in presets.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Amazing EGO Brush Preset - And How to Make LIGHTROOM Brush Presets\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ego66JPMhME?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h2>Have a go with the Brush yourself&#8230;<\/h2>\n<p>This technique is used widely in photography editing especially when using Photoshop, you can now do some really powerful things with the Lightroom brush tool so so we recommend you you reopen some old favourite photographs and give it a go.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>One example would be the sky on this <a 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