Local Curves Adjustments In Luminar 4
The curves controls in Luminar 4 are tucked away in the Advanced Settings in the Light tool. The Light Tool is the only editing tool that doesn’t have a mask. How can you apply a curves adjustment to a selected subject in a scene? Use an Adjustment Layer! With each Adjustment Layer, you get a new set of editing tools including Light and its curves controls. I’ll show you how in this video.
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Scott Davenport
Scott Davenport is a landscape photographer and photo educator and based in San Diego, California. He leads photo workshops, writes photo books, hosts podcasts, makes tutorial videos, and feels weird referring to himself in the 3rd person.
He also can't help getting his feet wet photographing at the beach.
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