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Lightroom adjustment brush settings or shortcuts

Working in Lightroom and suddenly my 'adjustment brush' tool is auto masking the entire photo I am editing. I must have hit a key on the keyboard. The 'auto mask' box is unchecked (I tried checking ...
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Block face with Adobe Lightroom

i'm new into Adobe Lightroom and don't have any basic skills with it. I want to ask a question that maybe this is very basic to you. Please take a look on picture below, the object's face is blocked ...
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Extreme sliders in LR

I shoot in studio. Many of my photos have softboxes inside the frame. In post-processing I need to remove them - for example make background fully black. When softbox has white, I set Adjustment brush ...
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Adjustment brush: How to see which portions of the picture you've altered?

When using the Adjustment brush, I remember a hotkey or button somewhere which will render the image dark and show you where you've used the brush. It's helpful, so you know that you have/haven't, ...
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How to photograph tire tracks imprinted on a person's clothes?

I would like to create a photograph where I lie on the flow with a bike next to me and my shirt has some tire tracks as if the bike drove over me. However, I don't know how to add the tire tracks to ...
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Can you use alternative brushes to clean DSLR sensors?

A lot of praise goes to Arctic Butterfly when doing DIY sensor cleaning. However are there cheaper solution to brush off dust by using other non-sensor cleaning specific brushes? Most high quality ...
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What brush tool in "PhotoImpact 8" would help me change brightness of some areas of the image?

I wonder if there is any such tool in "PhotoImpact 8" that would be somewhat similar to a brush that, if I move it over a certain area of my image (picture), would change that area's brightness. If ...
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In photo editing software, what is a brush and are these useful for working with photographs?

I notice that some photographers sell Photoshop "brushes". What exactly are they, and when would I use them? I expect that a brush has some kind of image to use as a pattern, but what use is that?
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