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I have a photograph that has areas where the shadows are much to dark – I can adjust the contrast and brightness so as to bring into clear view those portions of the photograph, but that washes out all the other areas of the photograph. What I need to be able to do is to use a freehand tool to outline a closed area that will be the object of contrast/brightness adjustments, but, not all the same. I need to have the adjustments not applied at all to the edges of my closed area, and for the brightness/contrast to be progressively appled to pixels according to how far away from the edge of the closed area they are, so that those pixels that are farther away than a predfined "distance" (I need to be able to chose this value), will be subject to the full application of the brigntess/contrast controls that I apply. I need to be able to see the effect in real time, with sliders, so that I can view and test the results – this way I can UNDO the bad lighting that was done when the photo was snapped.
Is there a technique for doing this?
Is there a technique for doing this?
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