So I got here because I had a very good landscape workflow up to about 4 years ago. I have not use photoshop at all since then. I opened it recently and did not really recognize anything. So I am here to relearn and this was a big help and relief. Many thing have not changed and the NIK filters were my work horse. Glad they are still here. Just subbed and looking to Greg to get me back to speed. Thanks Greg.
Thank you so much for your help. I tried some of these tricks but somehow I was lost in this process.. this complete session show me the correct way to do that . Namaskar Love from INDIA
Select Subject gives a hard selection of the buildings, with a lot of gaps. The result would be a very bad mask. I also tried Select Subject, but it also doesn't work. "Select Sky" has a large feather that goes very far into the building here. So that would destroy a lot of detail in the buildings in this case.
I had the same thought and tried it, but it doesn't work. "Select Sky" has a large feather that goes very far into the building here. So that would destroy a lot of detail in the buildings in this case.
Ultimately, the general workflow is the main thing I wanted to convey, as there are also images with water or other non-sky elements that should be in one mask and not the other. But even in what seems like a slam dunk, "select sky" wouldn't work well here. You could use a quick select and do some refinement on it, but it would have been a bit more work here.
It’s really not meant as a luminosity mask tutorial, I do a lot of videos without them and just advocate using them where they help. There are definitely other cases where a hand painted mask or such might work great with this technique.
At first I thought: why don’t you shorten the title of the vid to “I found the holy grail “ (in post processing). But this time I got to say: isn’t that basically what has been going around the Net for years as selective sharpening? Only in this case aided by lum masking? Though in this case I would think PS “select sky” may have been sufficient. Though Thank you for the video even if I thought I finally would know what the grail looks like … P.s. additionally you can also use this principle to guide the viewers eye… just (extra) sharpen the part of the image you want the viewer to look at and optionally apply noise reduction to the once you do not.
