The Adjustment Brush Shortcut That Saves Me From Toggling Auto Mask Every 30 Seconds

The Adjustment Brush Shortcut That Saves Me From Toggling Auto Mask Every 30 Seconds

There’s a specific kind of editing frustration that I’ve felt probably a thousand times. You’re painting a local adjustment across a large area of a photo, moving fast, and then you hit an edge. Maybe it’s the rim of a coffee cup, the shoulder of a jacket, a hard line between sky and building. Suddenly you have two bad options: slow everything down by turning on Auto Mask and deal with the lag, or keep painting fast and accept that you’ll bleed color or exposure onto something you didn’t want to touch.