Thank you sir. That was one of the main driving forces which drove me to produce this video. It is such a useful feature to masking and yet not everyone takes advantage of its features. So glad I could help you out.
Fantastic! Glad I could help you out. I think intersection masks is like algebra. You can stare at it forever and it confounds you. Then one day you see the light and it gets as simple as pie./
lol your question marks just explained how my head felt hahahahahaha thank you a lot!!! Your Mask clean up trick blew my mind! Hats off from a senior woman in Uruguay. I wish I could click LIKE more than once!
Hello and thanks for this tutorial video. This was amazing. I like how you take your time to explain and show us at the same time. Will be searching for more of your videos.
Thanks for the comment and compliments. I am out of the country visiting Ireland right now. But I plan to start doing more practical use and tips when I get back home. Glad to have you onboard.
Thanks Mickey. Once again you've provided us with a very clear and concise lesson on how to use the Intersection Mask. Excellent. Well done. And please keep on doing it. Besy wishes.
Thank-you for this video. I use intersect all the time, but I have never seen it done using a radial gradient before. It is magical. However, it is not clear to me on the horse example, why just using the brush wouldn't have the same effect as using the brush intersected with the subject mask.
Glad it was helpful! You are correct, you could just use a brush. Just depends on what you think it needs and what tools you are most comfortable with. That is the great thing about all the tools in Lightroom, you have a wide selection of tools which compliment others or can be used in place of others. Basically what you are comfortable with as long it give you the results you were expecting. Thanks for the comments.
That is what I had been using, the brush tool, Got to say this changes things, for me, I feel now, I will have more control over editing, a tighter more precise mask. but will depend on the image
indeed it was useful to watch , learn and understand , thanks for sharing , first i thought it will one example, then i saw the other 2 examples made it sink more in my understanding , if you could do some black and white processing , those which look like from a negative , deep black and good whites .... Thanks
So, I had a thought: One problem with using a radial gradient for directional light like this is that the effect is stronger toward the center of the gradient. But in reality, sunlight isn't 'tapered' like this. So, wouldn't it be better to use a brush mask with a reduced density, and then using intersecting masks to limit its scope? That way the effect won't be stronger at one end than it is at the other? (I know this is probably over-thinking, but part of my learning process involves thinking about how to reproduce in editing (as much as possible) the conditions that ideally should have been present in camera.)
No problem. I like it when people bring up ideas to make a process better. I have tried it the way you suggest and you are right, you might get a better effect in light fall off. You can also try using the linear mask instead of the radial. With linear you can better control where the light is stronger and then control the fall off by spreading out the gradient of the linear mask. Because you are using it as an intersecting mask, the effect will only apply to where the original mask was applied.
This is a phenomenal tutorial. Clear explanations, wonderful visuals, excellent examples. Your tips will elevate the game of many photographers, including me. Well done!
Are there ways of hiding an area, let’s say the sky. Then downloading another sky from another photo? Is this more of a photoshop question? Could you copy a mask from lightroom and use it in photoshop.
Sorry, really no way to do that yet in Lightroom. But there is a simple sky selection/ replacement tool in Photoshop. Basically works just like in Lightroom. Thanks for watching!
One more comment, Mickey: Instead of intersecting the horse with a brush (and painting the bright parts of the horse), I think you could also intersect with a luminance mask defining the bright parts with the eyedropper.
They may work depending on what you are trying to do. Most of the time when I am using an intersecting mask, I need a nice gradient across the original mask. That is hard to do with just a single placement of a mask.
