In recent versions of the program, Lightroom's masking features have made major steps forward, and you can now perform far more advanced and precise operations with relative ease, enabling new and more powerful edits. This helpful video tutorial will show you one such technique that leverages Lightroom's masking features to add a bit of drama to a sky.
Coming to you from Anthony Morganti, this awesome video tutorial will show you how to add a bit of drama to the sky of a landscape image using Lightroom's masking panel. In this case, you will be using the Intersect function to enable a precise mask that affects clouds but not buildings. The best way to think about Intersect is an "and" or overlap connector between two masks: if one mask allows editing in one area and the other allows it in another area, intersecting the masks will only allow editing where both masks overlap. As the video shows, this makes it easy, for example, to draw in edits for clouds without having to carefully mask around buildings. Check out the video above for the full rundown from Morganti.
And if you really want to dive into landscape photography, check out "Photographing The World 1: Landscape Photography and Post-Processing with Elia Locardi."
