Masking is an essential technique for photographers aiming to refine their images with precision, affecting specific parts of an image without altering the whole. This excellent video tutorial will show you everything you need to know to get started.
Coming to you from Park Cameras, this helpful video tutorial gets into the intricacies of masking in Lightroom, a tool that is crucial for enhancing photo edits across various genres, including landscape, portrait, wildlife, street, and food photography. The tutorial illustrates how Lightroom's masking features enable users to apply edits like exposure and color adjustments to selected areas, thereby dramatically improving your precision. Of note is the ease and power of Lightroom's masking, thanks to its powerful new AI-powered capabilities.
The video further explores specific tools, like the brush, linear gradient, radial gradient, and select subject options, demonstrating their application in real-world editing scenarios. These tools allow for detailed and nuanced adjustments, from brightening the skies to enhancing the texture of specific objects or bumping up the saturation and contrast of a specific area. If you have not learned how to use the program's masking tools yet, there is no better time than now! Check out the video above for the full rundown.
Thanks for the tutorial Alex, could you post a link to the images so I could edit them myself?