Adjustment Brush basics
Claire Gillo reveals how to make your portraits pop by using the Adjustment Brush in Camera Raw or Lightroom
Do you ever get home and wished you had used a reflector or some additional lighting on an isolated part of your image? Using the Adjustment Brush in Camera Raw or Lightroom, you can increase or decrease the amount of exposure, among other basic settings, in an isolated part of the frame. You can actually make multiple adjustments to the same image if you have areas that vary greatly in their exposure value or appearance. In this image, the face is a little in shadow, whereas the foreground is a bit bright and cold in hue. To fix this issue,
I used a +1 exposure stop brush on the face and hair of the model; in the foreground I used another brush to reduce the exposure of the blanket and warm it up a tad using the temperature slider.