History Brush Tool, Part 2 of 2

You can also apply the History Brush tool to lighten (or dodge) a small part of an image.

The other main way you can use the History Brush tool by applying a change over the entire image, then removing that change from a small part of it.

Let’s say I start with this image.

I want the whole thing to be darker, so I make it darker using Curves.

But I want the “light” to be nice and bright on the girl, so I point the History Brush tool to be set to before the change.

Now I use the brush to paint an area where I’m basically undoing the change I did before with Curves. The brush settings are the same as before, at 30% and a fairly large size.

The final image looks like this: