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[ 59 ]view, you can zoom both images in/out by pressing Command-+
and Command- – (PC: Ctrl-+ and Ctrl- –), or try using Scrubby
Zoom that’s mentioned in tip #43.- WHEN TO TURN OFF THE ADJUSTMENT BRUSH’S
AUTO MASK FEATURE
When you’re painting with the Adjustment Brush (K) in ACR with the
Auto Mask checkbox turned on, you’ve probably noticed that the brush
moves more slowly. That’s because Auto Mask is trying to determine
if there are any edges underneath where you’re painting (so it doesn’t
stray off target). When you’re painting over something like a large sky,
however, it keeps slowing down for clouds and stuff you probably want
to paint over. So whenever I’m painting over a large area, I turn the Auto
Mask checkbox off until I get near the edges of important areas, and
then I turn it on to do the detail work. Think of it like painting a wall in
your house with a roller, but then switching to a detail brush for the trim. - STARTING OVER IN ACR
If you’ve made some adjustments to your image in ACR, and then
decide you want to start over from scratch, clicking the Default button
in the Basic panel won’t return
your image to how it looked
when you opened it. Instead, to
get back to the way your image
looked when you first opened it
in Camera Raw, go to the Basic
tab’s flyout menu and choose
Camera Raw Defaults. - GOT TOO MANY PRESETS?
If you have to many presets in ACR, go to the Presets panel, Right-
click inside the panel, and from the pop-up menu that appears,
choose Manage Presets. When the Manage Presets dialog appears,
you can turn off any collection of presets that you don’t use often,
and they’ll be hidden from view. It doesn’t delete ’em; it just hides
them from view. - SEEING A SIDE-BY-SIDE BEFORE/AFTER
After you’ve done some editing in ACR, if you’d like to see a
side-by-side before and after, click the tiny icon with the letter “Y”
at the bottom-right corner of the preview image. Each time you click
on that Y, it toggles through different views (side-by-side, split
screen, top/bottom, etc.). Also, while you’re in this before/after
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