Operation Manual

Working with the Dodge Quick Brush Controls
You use the Dodge Quick Brush adjustment to lighten the area of the image the
adjustment is brushed on. For example, if you have a subject in the foreground of the
image that you want to emphasize by making it slightly lighter than the background,
you use the Dodge Quick Brush adjustment.
Before Dodge adjustment After Dodge adjustment
(lightened the hills in the foreground)
To brush the Dodge adjustment on an image
1 Select an image.
2 Do one of the following:
• In the Adjustments inspector or the Adjustments pane of the Inspector HUD, choose
Quick Brushes > Dodge (Lighten) from the Adjustments pop-up menu.
• In the tool strip, choose Dodge (Lighten) from the Quick Brush pop-up menu (with a
brush icon).
The Dodge Brush HUD appears, and the Dodge 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 Dodge Brush HUD.
For more information about the controls in the Brush HUD, see Controls in the Brush
HUD. For more information about applying brush strokes to an image, see Working with
Brushes.
4 Brush the adjustment on the area of the image you want to lighten.
The image appears lighter where the Dodge Quick Brush adjustment is applied.
To modify the Dodge adjustment after it has been applied to an image
1 Select an image with the Dodge adjustment applied to it.
607Chapter 18 Making Brushed Adjustments