Learn how to make powerful local adjustments in Photoshop and enhance your photos to perfection

►► We’re absolutely loco about local adjustments. The ability to alter specific parts of an image can help you create incredibly rich photos, and also rescue those that you might have thought beyond repair. So over the next few pages we’ll explore some of the best tools for local adjustments. Camera Raw and Lightroom are the ideal place to make these edits, so that we can take advantage of the extra quality in raw files. But don’t worry if you prefer to edit jpegs, as these tools can be used on both raws and jpegs to great effect, especially now we can make use of brilliant new masking features like Select Subject and Select Sky. We’ll begin here by looking at the basics of local adjustments in Camera Raw, then take you through a host of local adjustment tips and tricks to try out on your photographs…