Lightroom's Radial Mask Tool Is the Closest Thing to a Darkroom Spotlight (Here's How to Use It)

Lightroom's Radial Mask Tool Is the Closest Thing to a Darkroom Spotlight (Here's How to Use It)

There’s a specific frustration I run into on almost every edit, and it took me longer than I’d like to admit to find the right fix. The photo is technically fine. Exposure is decent. Composition is solid. But it looks flat. Nothing pulls the eye where it’s supposed to go. The subject is sitting in the frame competing with everything around it on equal footing, and the whole image feels like a shrug.