Lightroom - Radial Masking, Special Uses and Demo of Image processing

In this video I explain all the settings and use of the radial mask in Lightroom. I cover some of the ways to the refine the radial mask. I also provide a demo of using the radial mask in processing a photo.

[@AustralianWildMalayalee]

Thanks so much

[@easternshorephotoinstruction]

No problem. Glad I could help you out.

[@williamhager1872]

Excellent Video! Thank You.

[@easternshorephotoinstruction]

You are welcome! Glad to help out.

[@DickHoskins]

And I thought I knew how to use the radial gradient! Thank you!

[@easternshorephotoinstruction]

Hahahaha...You are more than welcome.

[@HansvanMeteren]

Thanks again, I love your videos.

[@easternshorephotoinstruction]

Thanks so much! Glad you like them!

[@maartenroes-francken7996]

Yet again, Mickey. Clear, concise and incredibly helpful. Thank you. I work masks in Adobe Camera Raw, not Lightroom. When applying a radial grad in ACR, the inner circle does not offer a little red-dot for adjusting the feather so one can only adjust feather by swinging over to the feather slider each time. A bit picky I know, but hey, who gives a ... Here's a thought: I wonder if, In addition to the Radial gradient and Linear gradient, Adobe were to introduce a square/ rectangular gradient tool with the same adjustment features as the radial gradient would be useful? Best wishes.

[@easternshorephotoinstruction]

I know what you mean. They have something like that in On1 software. Kind of a linear gradient that can be adjusted above and below the midline. LR only allows you to adjust in one direction. That is why I tend to use the radial instead of linear on most things. I'll have to poke around and see what workaround could be used. Thanks for the comment!

[@larrybarnes1794]

Great video! Thanks

[@easternshorephotoinstruction]

Thanks for the visit. Glad I could help out. Thanks for the comment!

[@fpashaeimehr]

I am watching your videos from Iran and I enjoyed it very much, thank you for your excellent teaching

[@easternshorephotoinstruction]

Thanks for the compliment. I hope it helps you out.

[@dktraveller8364]

Hi Mickey, the area inside the inner ring is all 100% mask and the area between the inner and outer rings is a gradient from 100 to 0%. You can confirm this by reducing the image size and stretching the gradient such that the inner circle ir elipse covers the complete image and then play with any adjustment.

[@easternshorephotoinstruction]

Thanks for the info! I will give a look.

[@dktraveller8364]

@easternshorephotoinstruction you can also see this as you watch what happens when you move the feather slider. Is you move the slide to the max, the inner area diminishes to zero so that the whole mask is a gradient. When you move it to the minimum the inner area fills the whole mask and now the complete mask has zero gradient