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Using linear and radial gradient masks

Using linear and radial gradient masks - Lightroom Tutorial

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Using linear and radial gradient masks

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- [Instructor] Let's look at a couple of other ways to create a mask using the linear gradient tool and the radial gradient tool. If you've used Lightroom in the past, you may be familiar with these tools, but now the tools are used to make masks. So let's see how to do that. I clicked the masking icon here to open this column of methods for creating masks. I'm going to start with a linear gradient mask. So I click on linear gradient, and that creates a mask panel here. Now the linear gradient and radial gradient masks are not automatic like select subject and select sky, so we have to draw them ourselves. To draw a linear gradient to brighten up the bottom of this photo, I'll go to the bottom and I'm going to drag up. If I hold the shift key as I drag, that keeps the linear gradient I'm dragging straight. So now you can see that there is a linear mask that starts at the bottom and is most dense there and then it fades…

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