I think that, when you click on the three dots of any specific mask you would like to invert and select the option "duplicate and invert", I've seen that it just duplicates the selection and invert it, it doesn't carry over the adjustments you made on the original mask.
Extremely useful Colin, and presented in a no nonsense, easy to understand way as usual - thank you so much for helping me on my photographic journey! Your videos are among the best out there. Best wishes from the UK
Terrific video, Colin! I didn't realise how you can mix colours as if using paints on a palette (the way you achieved those orange highlights). That's a revelation for me! Congratulations on the simplicity with which you explain these concepts. Many thanks!
I so wanted to know the advantages of having the tone curve in the local adjustment, but could not even imagine what those advantages were. Thank you so very much for your excellent video. I appreciate your teaching style.
Dude... I have watched soo many videos on using lightroom for editing and yours are always by far the easiest and the best . I thank you. I honestly think you made the image look worse but that's just my opinion. I would have changed the sky to mostly blue sky. But its irrelevant because the main thing is I'm learning a lot from your videos
Thanks, and yes, my goal was to teach, that’s why I edited it a little different for the thumbnail. If you fuss with it while teaching, the lesson becomes long and confusing
This was super helpful thank you. If you have time one day, would love to see a video using this tool on a portrait. Appreciate the explanation. Awesome.
Curves are a great addition to the masks in Lightroom. That's also a very photogenic church, which I also photographed when on holiday in Kauai, the Wai'oli Hui'ia Church and Mission House in Hanalei, Kauai.
personally I do say: "select sky" then right away option > duplicate and inverse if I plan to change settings on both, this way I know I have proper two excluding mask that matches perfectly in case the selection is somewhat different when reselecting the sky to make a new selection like you did. not a big change but that's just my workflow
Yeah thats been waiting for long and it makes huge , difference and flexibility , i wihing the HSL and seprate color adjustments wth the mask , da vinci has already more than that freedom on the image !!!Lightroom should add these features!!
Thanks for your tutorial. I discovered a very strange behavior when using the curves within masking. In a portrait photo I wanted to completely remove a very busy background. I selected the the background and changed in Curves the diagonal in a horizontal 50%L and 50% R line. The background changed in a flat middle gray. I left the mask mode and i had the portrait against nice gray background. But the strange thing was that i could not change that background anymore whatever changes I try to make in the normal mode. For instance; If I made the picture with the normal exposure-slider a full stop darker only the portrait became darker but the background stayed unaltered. In order to make that background 'active' again I had to open the picture in photoshop and saved it directly without any changes to Lightroom. The picture could now be edited as a whole.
We were not aware this new adjustment was available -- too bad the mask adjustment panels are not a different colour then we could easily recognize when Adobe adds another panel. This newest addition is VERY useful!
As for the tone curves: If I change the tone curve only over a single point, it doesn't matter whether I put the point in the shadows or highlights. The curve always bends the same when I move the point up or down. Only when I set a second point do I have the option of protecting this area and changing another tonal area.
Thank you, Colin for the very informative and helpful video; of course, you do realize that by showing me all the things I didn't know - but now do - you made my life harder because, now I will have to learn how to do them! SMS I really wonder if there is anyone in the world who truly knows all there is to know about Photoshop or Lightroom; seems to me that one could almost spend their entire lifetime devoted to its study and still now know it all. What wonderful - almost miraculous - programs. We are very lucky to live in the day and age when we can avail ourselves of them and so many other wonderful programs.
once you brought down the exposure and highlights of the sky (@0:45), the sky looks bit like there will be a thunderstorm (like dark grey rain clouds). is there a way to make a cloudy blue sky?
there is a formatting error in your description. "08:010 Adjusting the Intensity of the adjustment" should be: 08:10 Adjusting the Intensity of the adjustment
Hi Colin, I've noticed something that happens as you darken the sky in this image, and that is the top right and left of your image gets a dark patch almost like a Vignette. The same thing happens when I process photos in LRC, I get these dark patches and I then have to go in and use the content aware tool to get rid of them. I thought it was a fault with my Sigma telephoto lens, but obviously its something to do with LRC. How do you cope with this unwanted darkening at top right and left?
