The Color Range command is the best way to make a color-based selection. Build and adjust your mask and then use it to apply localized changes to your image.

Editing Images with Natural Language: Photo editing can be a challenging task, and it becomes even more difficult on the small, portable screens of mobile devices that are now frequently used to capture and edit images. To address this problem we present PixelTone, a multimodal photo editing interface that combines speech and direct manipulation. We observe existing image editing practices and derive a set of principles that guide our design. In particular, we use natural language for expressing desired changes to an image, and sketching to localize these changes to specific regions. To support the language commonly used in photoediting we develop a customized natural language interpreter that maps user phrases to specific image processing operations. Finally, we perform a user study that evaluates and demonstrates the effectiveness of our interface.

In his continuing series on the new Spark components in Flex 4.5, James Ward demonstrates how the new Formatters simplify the process of displaying common data types as localized/internationalized and human friendly strings.

The big WOW feature in Camera Raw 5 is the ability to make localized corrections. Join Colin Smith as he shows you what this tool is capable of.

Richard Harrington shows you how to use the color range command and how CS4 makes it even easier to make a localized selection.

Julieanne Kost shows you the power behind the new features in Adobe Camera Raw. Discover how to make non-destructive localized corrections as well as create special effects using the Adjustment Brush, Graduated Filter, and more.

Take a tour of the updated Develop module in Lightroom 2.0. Julieanne Kost shows how to make nondestructive localized corrections using the new Adjustment Brush and Graduated filter tools.

Get an up-close look at the Adjustment Brush and other tools used to make localized corrections in Lightroom.