When I saw this Eastern King bird I knew I wanted to make him pop against the tall grasses once I uploaded the file. I was so lucky that I ended up with him as sharp as I did because the wind was whipping quite a bit that day. First
Have you been using the selection and masking tools in Lightroom? Or have you been putting it off, as it looks a little daunting? Or perhaps you’re not really sure what to do with it? Here is a simple step-by-step on how to brighten (or darken) your background and brighten
Photoshop can be a big help in making and cleaning up selections. There are always many ways to do anything in Photoshop — I’m sharing my process. Depending upon the subject and surrounding background, I may use an entirely different technique. But you have to start somewhere. Select subject A
I market myself as a lens-based artist because all of my source material comes through the lens of my camera. After that, all bets are off. I blend, add depth and dimension, color shift and so much more. Photoshop extractions play a part. Photoshop extractions Solid art pieces start with
The Quick Selection and Magic Wand tools (W) allow you to click an area of color to create a selection based on adjacent pixels and your Tolerance setting. The Magic Wand is a much older tool that works reasonably well on photos with large areas of similar color. The Quick
The masking features in Adobe Lightroom keep getting better. The latest update is the best so far! The features in Lightroom Classic have only improved over time. With last year’s addition of AI masks, you can automatically create masks of the sky and subject in your photos. But one problem
This morning, Luminar Neo added its much anticipated Portrait Background Removal tool. Since its announcement last summer, there have been many competitors coming into play in the masking game, namely Adobe. This past fall, Adobe added a Select Subject and Select Sky mask option to the Lightroom ecosystem and Camera
In October 2021, Adobe released a huge upgrade to their masking tools in Lightroom Classic. These updates make masking in Lightroom much more efficient and user-friendly. For a more in-depth look at the whole upgrade, check out this video. But for this article, I wanted to highlight the one small
I’ve been a little slow to download the newest version of Adobe’s Photoshop and Adobe Camera Raw (ACR). But I’m glad that I finally got over that and had time to check out some new features. Selection is power in post-production Photographing Sandhill Cranes before dawn can lead to a
The latest update to Adobe Lightroom Classic — released late October during Adobe MAX — introduced some new local adjustment tools, including the new Masking panel. You can now choose Select Subject or Select Sky. These do exactly what you think they do, selecting the subject or sky for you.
Camera Raw version 14 introduces Masking 2. It arrives with a whole new set of masking tools, including Select Subject and Select Sky, along with the new Masking panel to manage and modify them. The photo below is the original. The opening photo’s adjustments were done with the new selective
In the above video, learn how the brand new selective masks in Photoshop, Lightroom and Adobe Camera Raw can power advanced portrait color grading. These techniques cover the all new masks introduced at Adobe MAX 2021. Click here to see more videos on how to get started with masking.
