3.3

Chapter 18 Making Brushed Adjustments 412
Working with the Denition Quick Brush Controls
You use the Denition Quick Brush adjustment to add clarity and reduce haze without adding
too much contrast to the area of the image the adjustment is brushed on.
Before Definition adjustment After Definition adjustment
(added definition to the flower in the foreground)
Note: You can also apply a Denition adjustment by brushing the entire Enhance adjustment's
parameter settings in to or out of an image. However, brushing the Enhance adjustment on an
image applies the Contrast, Denition, Saturation, Vibrancy, and Tint parameter settings. You
use the Quick Brush equivalents when you need to apply each of these adjustments in dierent
ways to dierent parts of the photo. For more information about the Enhance adjustment, see An
Overview of the Enhance Adjustment on page 338.
To brush the Denition adjustment on an image
1 Select a photo.
2 Do one of the following:
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In the Adjustments inspector or the Adjustments pane of the Inspector HUD, choose Quick
Brushes > Denition from the Add Adjustment pop-up menu.
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In the tool strip, choose Denition from the Quick Brush pop-up menu (with a brush icon).
The Denition Brush HUD appears, and the Denition 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 Denition 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 where you want to add denition.
Clarity is added and haze is reduced in the area of the image where the Denition Quick Brush
adjustment is applied.
To modify the Denition adjustment after it has been applied to an image
1 Select a photo with the Denition adjustment applied to it.
2 In the Denition area of the Adjustments inspector or the Adjustments pane of the Inspector
HUD, modify the Denition adjustment by specifying the following settings:
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Specify the area over which the Denition adjustment is applied using the Radius slider and
value slider.