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Chapter 18 Making Brushed Adjustments 406
In the Adjustments inspector or the Adjustments pane of the Inspector HUD, choose Quick
Brushes > Burn (Darken) from the Add Adjustment pop-up menu.
In the tool strip, choose Burn (Darken) from the Quick Brush pop-up menu (with a brush icon).
The Burn Brush HUD appears, and the Burn adjustment controls appear in the Adjustments
inspector and the Adjustments pane of the Inspector HUD, if both are shown.
3 Specify the brush stroke settings using the controls in the Burn Brush HUD.
For more information about the controls in the Brush HUD, see Working with Controls in the
Brush HUD on page 391. For more information about applying brush strokes to an image, see
Working with Brush Strokes on page 396.
4 Brush the adjustment on the area of the image you want to darken.
The image appears darker where the Burn Quick Brush adjustment is applied.
To modify the Burn adjustment after it has been applied to an image
1 Select a photo with the Burn adjustment applied to it.
2 In the Burn area of the Adjustments inspector or the Adjustments pane of the Inspector HUD,
modify the Burn adjustment by specifying the amount of the adjustment you want to apply to
the image using the Amount slider and value slider.
The previously applied Burn adjustment is modied.
Working with the Polarize Quick Brush Controls
You use the Polarize Quick Brush adjustment to deepen colors in the image by specically
darkening the shadows and midtones without aecting the black and white points in the area of
the image the adjustment is brushed on. The Polarize Quick Brush adjustment creates an eect
similar to a polarizing lter by using a Multiply blend.
Before Polarize adjustment After Polarize adjustment
(added contrast to the shadows and midtones
of the granite rocks in the foreground)
To brush the Polarize adjustment on an image
1 Select a photo.
2 Do one of the following:
In the Adjustments inspector or the Adjustments pane of the Inspector HUD, choose Quick
Brushes > Polarize (Multiply) from the Add Adjustment pop-up menu.