You're good at this Brian. Just found you and will definitely be doing some binge watching. I haven't yet figured out the magic of what makes your tutorials so much better than the others, but you get straight to the point, you are very direct, no "teasers", and every video I watch I come away with a new skill or piece of knowledge I didn't possess a half hour earlier. WOW! THANKS!!
Very, very, well explained Brian. Thank you. It’s so good to see the different ways you use the intersect mask and utilise its full potential. This takes it to another level. Can’t wait to try these techniques.
I never know I need to use another editing tool until you, Matt K, or Blake comes out with videos like this! Really interesting masking trick here Brian. 👍🏼👍🏼
Yes, I know what intersect does but until I watched this video I hadn't thought of all the different ways I could use it. Time to revisit some of my edits!! Thank you for such a directional video!
Very cool Brian. Reminds me of my days in a traditional darkroom making countless cardboard masks in order to dodge and burn an image. But with Lightroom, it's a lot simpler and more refined. Wish I had these tools in the film days.
Brian, thank you for a great video. I want to tell you what a great teacher you are. I have been using masks since they came out in Lightroom 2-3 years ago. But I have to confess I really did not understand ’intersect with’. I carried on thinking I know but I really rarely used them because frankly I did not understand them. My eyes suddenly opened today with your one sentence. You said “ think of it as refine mask within the mask “ Boom! It is all clear now, so thank you. Keep up the good work.
Easy explained and easy to understand and use. But oops the second image, this is not Reine but Hamnøy. I think all the photographers who have visited Lofoten have stood on the same bridge to take this picture? But when you're there, you want your own photo for the wall, don't you?
Excellent presentation Brian. I love the tone of your voice, I can understand every word. Additionaly, I really love the pace of uour commentary, other instructors speak way too fast for me, I require a few seconds to let the comments sink in to my brain. I am going to view many more of your videos.
I have been using the "secret" sky selection you found since that video came out, works amazing. Another great video - I really should start watching the Landscape course stuff, got it, just have not had the time to start watching it yet.
Another great video. Masking is so powerful and using subtract, add and intersect you can refine masks. In the first example of masking the sky I think you could have used a simpler approach by creating a gradient and just used subtract subject. Thanks
Too bad the feature is absent from Lightroom on the iPad. There is a workaround for some intersections by using subtract and then invert, but it’s not the same.
You do have them though, just different layout to get there. For the balloon one, select subject mask, inverse it, then use the minus under the same mask and use a linear gradient to subract from the mask. Works just the same. Luminance etc is also there.
Brian ...great explanation of Intersecting Masks! One question, what is the overall importance of the Luminance Map? The masking overlay seems to show a larger area being mapped? Could you please share your guideline?
I am a Timelapse photographer and I use LRTimelapse and LRC to edit key frames equally selected, such as 20 key frames out of 1,000 images, total. LRC only affects the key frames, LRTimelapse will transition those edits to the remaining 980 images. If I want to use LRC intersect, do I need to sync those changes to all images, or can I just use Intersect on the key frames?
I can establish on intersect but once done it won’t edit. What am I missing? Also if I’m working with any mask I can’t find a zoom in function, what’s the trick there? Thank you.
He mentioned he was color blind near the beginning. As far as I know, I am not color blind, so I can not understand what he must have to deal with. What I often wonder about is if someone sees green as yellow, then how do they even know what green looks like? So do they see grass as predominately yellow in the real world? And if he edits a photo so that it simulates what he sees, then will it not end up looking correct for everyone, even those that are not color blind? Or even others who are color blind, but blind to other colors? Every time I hear of color blindness, I wonder about this ?
@@The_Idea_of_Dream_Vision It's still interesting, though. Usually people don't know that they are color blind. That's why these test sheets with many dots of mixed colors are there for, I remember those from biology classes. People who are color blind usually know quite well which color they see, they kind of - hmm - just have a different 'color tag' in their mind. Think of car traffic: a color blind person won't start at a red light and stop at a green light. Yes, in this example there also is the position of the traffic light (above and below), but exactly the same thing happened in the video: Brian had the color picker of the mask color open, which is basically a flat version of the color wheel. So he had a reference of the color positions in the color theory right in front of him. Of course I am happy that he still isn't discouraged to make these helpful videos.
@@andreas.farsch interesting indeed. It must be tough to do photography and be color blind. I am short/near (not sure which is which) sighted and sucks when I can't read things that are far or fail to recognise people.
