Did you know you can use Lightrooms‘ Point Color in masks? In a recent Lightroom Classic update (V.13), Adobe added Point Color. This incredible new tool makes targeting precise adjustments to individual colors fast and easy. You can use it in an overall image or in a mask. What exactly is
Adobe has made it easy to select people in Lightroom and Adobe Camera RAW. The Masking Panel helps you achieve precise editing, quickly adjusting skin, teeth, eyes and more. How does it do this? Adobe Camera RAW 15 and Lightroom 12 automatically detect all the people in the photo using
Photoshop has numerous ways to create selections and some of them are easier than you think! Learn how to create simple automatic selections to make masks, selective adjustments, and more. When creating a selection or mask in Photoshop, it’s a great idea to start out with an auto selection, especially
Like pretty much everyone else, I was super keen to play with the new and improved masking tools for Adobe Lightroom Classic announced recently (it’s also available for Camera Raw and Lightroom). It took just a minute to learn where everything was, but once I started playing I could see
The iPhone can capture in Portrait Mode with a Depth Map. But did you know Photoshop or Lightroom can now see that data? Learn about advanced editing with the new Selective Masks introduced at Adobe MAX 2021. Click here to see more videos on how to get started with masking.
Covid-19 is making all sorts of things difficult including couples portraits. But if you’re willing to take a break from standard portraits and get into something a little more fun and creative, you don’t have to be seen with those darn surgical masks! Embrace the strange Sadly those silly blue
Luminar 2018 has some very cool filters. In this article, I’ll show you how I use the Sunrays filter with my drone photographs and how to use Luminosity, Gradient, Radial, and Brush masks with the filter, to control how the filter is applied to photographs. The best way to understand the
When using textures to enhance your photos in Photoshop, blending is how you reveal your image below the texture layer or tell the texture layer how to combine with the layers below it. If you just import your texture image in over top of one of your photos, whichever image
Welcome to Part 3 of this series. You can find Part 1 here and Part 2 here. In this article I’ll show you how to: Use the Gradient mask with the Dehaze Filter to enhance the sky Use the Luminosity mask with the Dehaze Filter to enhance the sky Use
Welcome to part two of this series. You can find Part 1 here. In this article, I’ll show you two ways to use the Brush and Masking to apply the Dehaze Filter. These techniques can be applied to the other Filters as well. To follow along you will need Luminar 2018. Using the Brush with
Filter masks in Luminar 2018 give you the ability to use the filters beyond just applying them to the entire image. This gives you flexibility and adds to your creativity. I have written a series of three articles. In Part 1 of the series, I talk about the basics of
For this composite, my goal was to produce a version of my galloping wild horses image that looks like it’s been drawn and woodburned onto an old board. Not sure why, I just thought it would look cool, the inspiration behind many my composites. Having an idea of what you
