It’s time to step our editing game up a bit and the masking tools let us do that.
Masking allows us to change virtually every aspect of any part of an image; darkening, brightening, softening, smoothing, sharpening and highlighting any part of our photographs. Lightroom’s auto masking feature allows effortless selection of subject, background, people, and sky, provides for multiple masks per image and lets us add to or subtract from these selections.
The radial gradient makes for perfect vignetting, the linear gradient helps control light fall-off and selection by color or luminance range is also an option.