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Adjust Linear and Radial filters in your portrait
What is a filter?
Once you have completed global adjustments, you may want to make some local exposure, clarity, or tonal adjustments that are limited to a certain area of your photo. Lightroom Classic offers the Graduated Filter and the Radial Filter to help you create a mask that blends gradually into the other parts of your image.
ā¶ Graduated Filter
The Graduated Filter is used to create linear gradient masks in Lightroom Classic. The masks begin at a straight line and fade away. They can be used to make local changes to parts of an image, such as a sky. Because of its linear approach, you can make a gradual change of tone and color in an image.
Note: You can also use the keyboard shortcut Shift+M to open the Graduated Filter, a panel opens up with all the editing choices available for this tool
Note: If you want the linear gradient to be horizontal, hold the Shift key as you drag.
Note: You can draw a linear gradient in any directionāhorizontally, vertically, or diagonally, depending on which part of the image you want to affect.
ā· Radial Filter
The Radial Filter available in Lightroom Classic creates a mask so you can apply local adjustments inside or outside an oval shape. It can be used to highlight specific parts of an image.
Note: You can also use the keyboard shortcut Shift+M to open the Radial Filter, a panel opens up with all the editing choices available for this tool.
Note: You can also duplicate a radial gradient to apply the same adjustments elsewhere in a photo. Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (MacOS) a radial gradient pin and choose Duplicate. Then drag the duplicate pin to a new location.
Here's how the final portrait looks:
Download the sample portrait from HERE and apply all the retouching techniques to see the results.
Related Links:
Edit a landscape photo with linear gradient adjustments
Highlight parts of a photo with radial gradients
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