
The controls in the image adjustment tabs of Camera Raw affect the color and tone of an entire photo. To adjust a specific area of a photo (or make local adjustments, such as dodging or burning) use the Adjustment Brush tool , the Graduated Filter tool
, or the Radial Filter tool in Camera Raw.
With the Adjustment Brush tool, you can selectively apply Exposure, Texture, Clarity, and other adjustments by “painting” them onto the photo.
With the Graduated Filter tool, you can apply the same types of adjustments gradually across a region of a photo. You can make the region as wide or as narrow as you like.
With the Radial Filter tool, you can draw an elliptical area around the subject and selectively apply adjustments to either outside or inside the selected area. For more details, see Radial Filter in Camera Raw.
You can apply both types of local adjustments to any photo. You can synchronize local adjustment settings across multiple selected images. You can also create local adjustment presets so that you can quickly reapply an effect you use frequently.
Getting local adjustments “right” in Camera Raw takes some experimentation. The recommended workflow is to select a tool and specify its options, and then apply the adjustment to the photo. Then you can go back and edit that adjustment, or apply a new one.
As with all other adjustments applied in Camera Raw, local adjustments are nondestructive. They are never permanently applied to the photo. Local adjustments are saved with an image in an XMP sidecar file or in the Camera Raw database, depending on what’s specified in Camera Raw preferences.
Camera Raw opens the Adjustment Brush tool options under the Histogram and sets the mask mode to New.
Choose the type of adjustment you want to make in the Adjustment Brush tool options by dragging an effects slider.
The effects that are available depend on whether you are working in Process Version 2012, 2010, or 2003, as noted. To update a photo to PV2012, click the exclamation-point icon in the lower-right corner of the image preview.
Temp
Adjusts the color temperature of an area of the image, making it warmer or cooler. A graduated filter temperature effect can improve images captured in mixed-lighting conditions.
Tint
Compensates for a green or magenta color cast.
Exposure
Sets the overall image brightness. Applying an Exposure local correction can achieve results similar to traditional dodging and burning.
Contrast
Adjusts the image contrast, with a greater effect in the midtones.
Highlights
Recovers detail in overexposed highlight areas of an image.
Shadows
Recovers detail in underexposed shadow areas of an image.
Whites
Adjusts the white points in a photo
Blacks
Adjusts the black points in a photo
Texture
Enhance or reduce the appearance of texture in your photo. Move the slider to the left to smoothen details; move it to the right to accentuate details. When you adjust the Texture slider, the color or tonality does not change.
Clarity
Adds depth to an image by increasing local contrast.
Dehaze
Reduces or increases existing haze in a photo
Saturation
Changes the vividness or purity of the color.
Sharpness
Enhances edge definition to bring out details in a photo. A negative value blurs details.
Noise Reduction
Reduces luminance noise, which can become apparent when shadow areas are opened.
Moiré Reduction
Removes moiré artifacts, or color aliasing.
Defringe
Removes fringe colors along edges. See Remove local color fringes.
Color
Applies a tint to the selected area. Select the hue by clicking the color sample box to the right of the effect name.
Click the Plus icons (+) or the Minus icons (–) to increase or decrease the effect by a preset amount. Click multiple times to select a stronger adjustment. Double-click the slider to reset the effect to zero.
Size
Specifies the diameter of the brush tip, in pixels.
Feather
Controls the hardness of the brush stroke.
Flow
Controls the rate of application of the adjustment.
Density
Controls the amount of transparency in the stroke.
Auto Mask
Confines brush strokes to areas of similar color.
Show Mask
Toggles visibility of the mask overlay in the image preview.
The cross hair indicates the application point. The solid circle indicates the brush size. The black-and-white dashed circle indicates the feather amount.
If the Feather is set to 0, the black-and-white circle indicates the brush size. With very small feather amounts, the solid circle may not be visible.
Paint with the Adjustment Brush tool in the area of the image you want to adjust.
When you release the mouse, a pin icon appears
at the application point. In the Adjustment Brush tool
options, the mask mode changes to Add.
To customize the color of the mask overlay, click the color swatch next to the Show Mask option. Then, choose a new color from the Color Picker.
To create an eraser brush that has different characteristics
from the current Adjustment Brush tool, click
the Local Adjustment Settings menu button and choose
Separate Eraser Size. Then, specify the Size, Feather, Flow, and
Density you want for the eraser.
When working with multiple Adjustment Brush adjustments, make sure you’re in Add mode to switch between them. Click a pin icon to select that adjustment and refine it.
Camera Raw opens the Graduated Filter tool options under the Histogram and sets the mask mode to New.
Choose the type of adjustment you want to make in the Graduated Filter tool options by dragging the slider for any of the following effects:
The effects that are available depend on whether you are working in Process Version 2012, 2010, or 2003, as noted. To update a photo to PV2012, click the exclamation-point icon in the lower-right corner of the image preview.
Temp
Adjusts the color temperature of an area of the image, making it warmer or cooler. A graduated filter temperature effect can improve images captured in mixed-lighting conditions.
Tint
Compensates for a green or magenta color cast.
Exposure
Sets the overall image brightness. Applying an Exposure graduated filter can achieve results similar to traditional dodging and burning.
Contrast
Adjusts the image contrast, with a greater effect in the midtones.
Highlights
Recovers detail in overexposed highlight areas of an image.
Shadows
Recovers detail in underexposed shadow areas of an image.
Whites
Adjusts the white points in a photo
Blacks
Adjusts the black points in a photo
Texture
Enhance or reduce the appearance of texture in your photo. Move the slider to the left to smoothen details; move it to the right to accentuate details. When you adjust the Texture slider, the color or tonality does not change.
Clarity
Adds depth to an image by increasing local contrast.
Dehaze
Reduces or increases existing haze in a photo
Saturation
Changes the vividness or purity of the color.
Sharpness
Enhances edge definition to bring out details in the photo. A negative value blurs details.
Noise Reduction
Reduces luminance noise, which can become apparent when shadow areas are opened.
Moiré Reduction
Removes moiré artifacts, or color aliasing.
Defringe
Removes fringe color along edges. See Remove local color fringes.
Color
Applies a tint to the selected area. Select the hue by clicking the color sample box to the right of the effect name.
Click the Plus icon (+) or the Minus icon (–) to increase or decrease the effect by a preset amount. Double-click the slider to reset the effect to zero.
The filter starts at the red dot and red dotted line, and it continues past the green dot and green dotted line.
The mask mode switches to Edit in the Graduated Filter tool options.
When working with multiple Graduated Filter effects, click an overlay to select that effect and refine it.
You can modify Graduated Filter masks using brush controls. Once you've added a mask, to access brush controls select the Brush option next to New/Edit. Alternatively, with a Graduated Filter instance selected, press Shift+K.
As appropriate, use the + and – brushes.
For a video description of the brush controls, see Filter Brush in Adobe Camera Raw.
The add/remove functionality is available only to Photoshop CC customers using Camera Raw 8.5 or later.
Updated in October 2018 release of Camera Raw
Using the Color Range Mask, Luminance Range Mask and Depth Range Mask controls, you can quickly create a precise masking area on your photo for applying local adjustments.
You begin by creating a quick initial masking selection with Adjustment Brushes or Radial Filter/Graduated Filter. Then, refine your selection using the Color Range Selector to sample colors within the mask area, Luminance Range Selector or slider to set the luminance range endpoints of the selection mask, or Depth Range Selector or slider to set the depth range endpoints of the selection mask.
Depth Range Mask is available only for photos that have embedded depth map information. As of now, this is limited to HEIC photos that are captured on Apple iPhone 7+, 8+ and X, XS, XS MAX, and XR (see the list of supported Apple iPhones) using the Portrait mode in the built-in iOS camera app. If there is no depth info for a photo, the Depth masking option is disabled in the Range Mask drop-down list.
After you make an initial selection mask with Adjustment Brushes or Radial Filter/Graduated Filters, you can refine the mask area based on the depth range of the selection. To use Depth Range masking, follow these steps:
Open a photo in Adobe Camera Raw.
In the toolbar of the Camera Raw dialog box, select the Adjustment Brush tool, Graduated Filter tool, or Radial Filter tool. Then create an initial selection mask over a specific area of your photo that you want to correct.
From the tool options in the Adjustment panel on the right, choose the Range Mask type as Depth from the drop-down list. By default, Range Mask is set to None (disabled by default).
To select a depth range within the mask area, do the following:
For a more precise view of the mask area, press Alt (Win)/Option (Mac) key area while moving the Depth Range or Smoothness slider to get black and white visualization over your photo.
Select the Visualize Depth Map check box to view the depth information of the photo in black and white representation. The part of photo in white represents the foreground, while the part of photo in black represents the background. The red color shows the actual area masked which is an intersection of depth and local adjustment applied.
After refining the mask area, you can make selective adjustments in the Adjustment panel to create precise photographic edits.
After making an initial selection mask on your photo with Adjustment Brushes or Radial Filter/Graduated Filters, you can refine the selection mask based on the colors that you sample within the mask area.
Open a photo in Adobe Camera Raw.
In the Camera Raw dialog box, select the Adjustment Brush tool, the Graduated Filter tool, or the Radial Filter tool from the toolbar. Then, create an initial selection mask over a specific area of your photo that you want to correct.
From the tool options in the Adjustment panel on the right, choose the Range Mask type as Color from the drop-down list. By default, Range Mask is set to None (disabled by default).
Use the eyedropper (near the Range Mask option) to sample color within the mask area. Do any of the following:
Adjust the Color Range slider to narrow or broaden the range of selected colors.
For a more precise view of the mask area, press Alt (Win)/Option (Mac) key area while moving the Color Range slider to get black and white visualization over your photo.
To exit color sampling, press the Esc key or click the eyedropper (near the Range Mask option).
After refining the mask area, you can now make selective adjustments to create precise photographic edits.
Using Adobe Camera Raw 10.1 and later, you can remove a Color Range Mask sample. To do this, press Alt (in Windows)/Option (in Mac) and click the Color Range Mask sample.
After making an initial selection mask on your photo with Adjustment Brushes or Radial Filter/Graduated Filters, you can refine the mask area based on the luminance range of the selection.
Open a photo in Adobe Camera Raw.
In the Camera Raw dialog box, select the Adjustment Brush tool, the Graduated Filter tool, or the Radial Filter tool from the toolbar. Then, create an initial selection mask over a specific area of your photo that you want to correct.
From the tool options in the Adjustment panel on the right, choose the Range Mask type as Luminance from the drop-down list. By default, Range Mask is set as None.
For a more precise view of the mask area, press Alt (Win)/Option (Mac) key area while moving the Luminance Range or Smoothness slider to get black and white visualization over your photo.
Select the Visualize Luminance Map check box to view the luminance information of the photo in black and white representation. The part in red color shows the actual area masked which is an intersection of depth and local adjustment applied.
After refining the mask area, you can then make selective adjustments to create precise photographic edits.
You can save local adjustments as presets
so that you can quickly apply the effects to other images. You create,
select, and manage local adjustment presets using the Camera Raw
Settings menu in
the Adjustment Brush or Graduated Filter tool
options. You apply local adjustment presets using the Adjustment Brush tool
or
the Graduated Filter tool
.
Local adjustments cannot be saved with Camera Raw image presets.
In the Adjustment Brush or Graduated Filter tool options in the Camera Raw dialog box, click the Camera Raw Settings menu button . Then, choose one of the following commands:
New Local Correction Setting
Saves the current local adjustment effect settings as a preset. Type a name and click OK. Saved presets appear in the Local Adjustment Settings menu and can be applied to any image that is opened in Camera Raw.
Delete “preset name”
Deletes the selected local adjustment preset.
Rename “preset name”
Renames the selected local adjustment preset. Type a name and click OK.
Preset name
Select a preset to apply its settings with the Adjustment Brush tool or the Graduated Filter tool.
When using local adjustment presets, keep in mind the following:
Only one local adjustment preset can be selected at a time.
When applying a local adjustment preset with the Adjustment Brush tool, you can still customize the brush options, including Size, Feather, Flow, and Density. The preset applies the effect settings at the specified brush size.
After a local adjustment preset is applied, you can refine it as desired.
The same effect settings are available for the Adjustment Brush tool and the Graduated Filter tool. As a result, local adjustment presets can be applied using either tool, regardless of which tool was used to create the preset.
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