The HIDDEN Power of Luminosity Masks in PHOTOSHOP CC 

This is why you're always my favourite tutorial channel. Great work dude! Keep it up 🤜🤛

Awesome as always! You make Photoshop learning so easy.

Arguably one of your best tutorials! Loved it!!!!!!!!!

Very very useful and awesome🔥 And special thanks for the action❤

Thank you so much for this video!! I'd love to see more of these! They're so useful!

So much information! You clarified several things about making luminosity masks. But I am so glad I can pause the video because I cannot keep up with you! Now all I have to do is figure out how to create an action...

Found this clip through fStoppers. Really digging your delivery @tutvid, especially your shotgun approach towards demonstrating the technique in action. Just hit the bell, looking forward to watching future videos.

Thanks for your tutorial! Very useful technique!

Very awesome Tutorial :) Thank you so much for it!

Thank you very much for your helpful post Nathaniel! I'll internalize your way of adjustment, and I'll subscribe and watch more of you stuff! Greetings from Austria

Thank you for the awesome action! I do Real Estate Photography and this is changing my Twilight shoot process! Very much appreciated :)

Try 'Lumenzia' luminosity panel/extension. Less layers used with better results + individual luminosity, color, saturation, ...etc. masks. Also exposure blending, what you did here + luminosity mask sliders. That's the leading luminosity panel and leaves no wish open.

More luminosity vids please. Really learned something today.

Thx man. Love this tutorial.

Great Tutorial! Thanks a lot!

bro! And i told ppl I'm good at photoshop.. 15yrs of photoshop.. guess I am still learning. Thank you brav

Wow this was so useful, thanks for a great video!

thank you ! tested on my projects, fantastic !

Amazing tutorial, and many thanks for the action, very powerful stuff.

This was a game changer for me. Thank you!

Loved it. Thanks a ton. ❤️❤️😘🙏

Thank You for sharing this amazing technique

This is an awesome video!!! I dont know about yall but i like the detailed videos. I like to understand what and why we are doing it this way and how it works. Thanks again!

Thanks for the action!!!

Wou man! Congrats for that amazing video!!

Killing it with the videos keep it up

Got the action, can't wait to play with 'em! This is wicked cool stuff and looks like it's going to solve a few problems for me! Thanks bro!

Excellent vid. I use a panel called lumenzia by Greg Benz, but for people that don't know about luminosity masks this is great.

You know how there are a lot of tutorials out there, most of which you learn a little something if you are lucky-- this is not one of those. I have used Photoshop on and off for many years-- since about 1989; and this video has a lot of very useful information, which I had not specifically learned before... equally important, you put it all in usable context and examples. Thank you so much for sharing this, and I wanted to say, AWESOME JOB!

I've been wanting to know more about luminosity masking for some time now... This is terrific!

Man your videos are so so so incredibly informative! The views don't say it but damn so helpful! I actually love the fast speed of your vids

Wow this is a very powerful tool, i won't lie i didn't know this tool but im glad i do now 😄😉

Will definitely try this

This is really helpful thank you

Fantastic, thank you!

Im a beginner at photo editing but i know once I understand this technique my life will be alot easier in PP thanks for sharing!

thank you, one of the best tuts about luminosity masks on youtube

I had no idea it could be done inside Photoshop. I've always used Lightroom for that cause I couldn't live without that mask. Is SO useful and powerful. Love the video.

Congratulations. You're a Photoshop whizz. I have no idea what you just did.

Love you for this

Fantastic video! Thank you

Incredible man!

Nicely done. Just a hint, which I suspect you may know, clicking the first icon in the icon tray of the channels window will do the selection for you.

Awesome videos you make! Question: That video of yourself in the top right corner. It looks like a regular photoshop tab. Is it done in post or is there a plugin or something for that? Imagine being able to stream youtube tuts directly in a window inside photoshop. That would free up some screen when following along your videos.

Ily for the action

Great tutorial. Can also be used for color adjustments also!

Nice explaination and I like the application to the various adjustment layers... very helpful, thank you! 🙌🏻 What would the midtone masks be good for?

Great vid, ease up on the coffee. 👍

very nice tutorial

Awesome Sir

Awesome Video, learnt a heap from it. A question that is some what related... you opened the file initially and Adobe Camera Raw opened. I open my files through Lightroom using "open in photoshop as a smart object" is this the exact same thing? i noticed the screens look different. Also as an FYI there is an issue with your discord link. Keep the great work up.

Great vid thanks!

Great video. I cannot imagine Take 1 being more entertaining than Take 2. You had me laughing with some of you comments. Great tip and advice. I regularly use luminosity mask but never thought to constrain them multiple times as you did. Great effect. Thanks for the action - that will help a lot.

Love it!!!!!

hahaha 😂 nearly fell out of may chair, loughting about your joke about the downloadble aktion

Thats a very smart way to retouche an image 👌👍

Thanks for this! Oh and believe it or not my thanks comes with no strings attached :) You DON'T have to change anything about your channel or the way you speak or the tools you use. I trust your channel and I appreciate you taking the time to do a second take - must have been quite frustrating to realize the mistake made in the first one!

Awesome video as usual but one thing I really noticed was the attention to detail on your video composition. Dude, you have 2 tabs with both name and handle and perfectly cropped video in a panel area of photoshop. Very slick and again, great video and awesome creative den with the bike on the wall.

Hey Nathaniel, I so appreciate this video! It really helps getting my pictures to pop. Unfortunately, the download link for the Photoshop action seems to be broken, would it be possible to check it out or put the actions on your website? :) Thanks a lot! Edit: Just in case someone else has the same problem: The link is not broken, RU-vid's redirection system is. You need to copy the link and paste it in a separate window or tab. Simply clicking or Ctrl-clicking the link won't work. Hope that helps :)

Great tutorial, getting the details on LM editing. BTW I found out how to reduce the play speed to 75% as your vocals were too "coffee" for me ;-)

*Road to a million SUBS. Woooooooh*

I don't know why YT recommend me this video but I watched the whole thing. This is what I call an advanced PS tutorial.

Not able to download the action anymore. Is that working? very useful video which helped me to add the contrast n color also. Something which most of luminosity mask tutorials don't tell.

It would be great if you do a tutorial with food, for food photographers : )

Leave that clarity slider alone... dehaze does a much better job on this sort of image, even if there's no obvious haze. It'll also give you the contrast boost you wanted. I also try saturation before vibrance when there aren't any skin tones or already highly-saturated colours in the image that I want to protect.

Great info, I appreciate it. The only drawback is how fast you were doing everything. We can always use the back button and see it again, but it defeats the purpose of explaining something to an audience with clarity and class. There is also the issue of unnecessary information merely intended to look funny.

This man is a treasure.

Great video as always, just a question can you make a video about how to use this for product photography and use it for some ad or anything that shows product and how to play with light and shadows. Thank you

amazing.

Im a simple guy. I see tutvid video, i hit 👍 🙏

Wow really good video

Your handling of luminance masks sounds very good, so decided to use it. I went through the video again, and everything was fine until I started to try to mask for the shadows. Here are some questions: When you were constricting highlights, you used ctrl-shift-alt-click on RGB and continued that for all subsequent new channels. But when you were constricting shadows, you used ctrl-click on RGB in first step, then ctrl-alt-click RGB after that. Is this correct? When you were constricting highlights, your next step was click on new channel, then Ctrl-I. But when you were constricting shadows, you changed the steps for subsequent constrictions to ctrl-alt-click RGB --> new channel --> ctrl-D. This would result in a black screen, so I tried using ctrl-I as on the first procedure for shadows. Is any part of this incorrect? I tried several ways to do the shadows but results were inconsistent. Cannot figure out what is the right way to do the shadows! You were moving fast, but I used pause and took notes. Hope you can help me with this.

Super powerful. Can definitely see how useful using luminosity masks would be. Your file size at the end ballooned up to 1.6 GB. Would you then flatten the image to bring the file size down to a more reasonable level? Thanks!

brother whats the mic it is? thank you

Hi There !!! А bit difficult lesson, but very useful

TIL the reason why some of my more complex work files require to be saved as PSB. I use channels to select and mask everything that’s not a clear edge (hair, depth of field,...). I never figured masks / saved channels could be the culprit. Here I was turning everything to raster later on during my edits. 🤦🏼‍♂️

it's great video and very helpful in using luminosity mask, but can you check the action download link again, i think it's not working, thank you so much

thanks for this valuable lesson!! One thing that doesn't work: I have a focus stack. So I alligned all the layers, blended them to a all-in-focus pic and then converted the two layers into a smart object. from there on I made the 8 Alpha channels. Now the two smart object copies wont open in CameraRaw. Is this because there is a focus stack behind?

Amazing

#Nathaniel - I've watched a lot of RU-vid videos about Luminosity Masks but yours is by far the best out there. I now feel I actually understand what's happening, which makes it much easier to use them 'properly'. And a free Action! I am in your debt kind sir :)

Hi there! I cant download the action, is it still available? thanks!

OK am I missing something here? I followed the tutorial EXACTLY, but when i hit ok to apply changes in camera raw to the layer the changes are made to all the layers and the luminosity masks dont then change anything in the selection bc all the layers have now changed? Whats going on? I cant find a solution on google for this

My OCD is coming through when seeing this perspective xD Just a bit to the left and the bridge would be perfect.... 172 MB is quite a high amount of RAW data...how many megapixels does this photo have?

Is that a stock image?

Nice

what is the focal length used in the photo?

At 2:15, how did you bring up that magnified window with a shortcut? Be keen to find out how!

5:58 For some reason I actually really like the picture like this . Just needs to be cropped.

I liked the part where you were frustrated the most. Zero calories and filled me up! :P

I have never understood why Photoshop doesnt have lumenosity masks built in (rather than through channels.) If you like lumenosity masks it is good to get a Photoshop panel for them - I use Lumenzia but there are plenty others....

Thank you kindly for sharing the action without making us sign up for something.

How do you magnify in photoshop? Same as what you did.

When you said "it will feel like you know more about photoshop then your friends when you start playing around in there” I thought about that none of my friends know how to use photoshop at all😂 I am the only one who edits photos in Lightroom and photoshop🤷‍♂️

Great done @Tutvid ;-) but you must know that you are out of date with this particular tuto lol ;-) LUMENZIA does everything for you and very quickly now ...ANd the power of LM in ON1 photo raw is today amazing with a complete control of the Density of the masks&layers ;-) I was used to see this kind of masks créations a few yars ago^^ Anyway, great explanations, thank you for your years work :-) Greatings from France :-) JF

That's it, I'm going to ask RU-vid for a 'Love' button. 'Thumb-up' in such cases feels like luminosity masking my gratitute away. Thank you!

After I made the masks and tried to open new smart object - my image did not open in Raw? What did I do wrong?

Is the action for the luminosity mask still available, clicked on it and it didn't do anything.

first time i tried this it worked perfectly but now for some reason when ever i have the 3 smart object images when i adjust the H image it applys it to all of them . ( the L and original what am i doing wrong ???????

Basically an HDR photo?

Very enlightening. However, it would have been more effective had you spoken more slowly.