how to use curves in masks in lightroom
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 พ.ค. 2024
- Finally, we get curves in masks in Lightroom. Learn why this is important. Colin Smith teaches you how to use Curves in masks to target tones and take absolute control over color grading.
00:00 Intro
00:21 Create Mask
00:45 5 adjustment zones
01:03 Adjust the tones
01:48 Making a Background mask
02:27 Adjusting Foreground with recovery and Curves
03:33 Curves Color Mode
04:10 Understanding Color Channels
06:08 adding color to tonal regions
06:48 Adjusting the color on the Background
08:010 Adjusting the Intensity of the adjustment
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I think that, when you click on the three dots of any specific mask you would like to invert and select the option "duplicate and invert", I've seen that it just duplicates the selection and invert it, it doesn't carry over the adjustments you made on the original mask.
Best 9 minutes of youtube i have watched all year. Thank you
Thanks so much!
Great tutorial and not just for the masks. You taught me a lot about the color curves in a very short video. Well done.
Thanks! Btw I have a whole course on curves on my website
At last someone who explained curves perfectly. Thank you
Well done Colin!!! Best demo on colour curves I have seen, thank you!!
Why, that you!
I’ve been using LR for years and now I am realizing that I totally missed many features with the curve module! This was very informative. Thank you!
Extremely useful Colin, and presented in a no nonsense, easy to understand way as usual - thank you so much for helping me on my photographic journey! Your videos are among the best out there. Best wishes from the UK
Terrific video, Colin! I didn't realise how you can mix colours as if using paints on a palette (the way you achieved those orange highlights). That's a revelation for me! Congratulations on the simplicity with which you explain these concepts. Many thanks!
Glad it helped
Thank you for that walk through. That was so helpful. First time explained in a clear and concise way at the right pace. Thank you for posting.
Thanks, I'm glad it was helpful
Thank you so much!!! I really liked seeing the new features in practice!
Repeating what has been said already: Extremely useful!
Curves are a great addition to the masks in Lightroom.
That's also a very photogenic church, which I also photographed when on holiday in Kauai, the Wai'oli Hui'ia Church and Mission House in Hanalei, Kauai.
Yes, its a really beautiful spot on a beautiful island!
You the man Colin! Best instructor around
I have always shied away from using the tone curve. This video showed me how much I was missing by not using it. Thank you very kindly.
Glad to help!
Brilliant ! Thank you.
Another great tutorial. Thank you!
This is great!! Thanks for introducing it.
That targeted adjustment tool - I keep forgetting to use it. Thanks for highlighting it again. Cheers.
VERY helpful video. Thanks, Colin.
Great explaining! This has become my number one tool! So easy and with so much control. Thanks!
Great tutorial. Thank you.
Excellent tutorial and easy to understand, thank you
Wow - learned so much... fabulous tutorial.. can't wait to apply it...
That was really cool! Thank you!
That's very cool. I've used the new tone curve in masks but never to adjust colors like that. Very useful, thank you. 😊
Awesome
Really helpful. Thank you😊
Thanks Colin yet again another great tutorial
Very helpful, thank you
A really useful new feature. Thank you so much for taking us through its potential.
Your narrative & the graphics are Top Notch. This 10 min lesson takes a day+ to prepare. Thank you !!
Excellent. Very clear. Thank you
Really useful, thank you👍🏻
Great tutorial, keep it coming 🤠
Thanks. Great stuff as usual.
Great video!!!
Very useful! Thank you! 🙏
Very cool, thank you. Subscribed.
Very helpful, thanks!
As always simply genius explanation !
Thankyou. I will now redo my "Train that goes nowhere" a hotel in Kruger.......you have helped mea lot.
Very useful. Thank you
This was super helpful thank you. If you have time one day, would love to see a video using this tool on a portrait. Appreciate the explanation. Awesome.
Thanks again Colin, easy to understand and remember, a great instructor.
Great video learned a lot from this.
Excellent tutorial! I hadn't thought of using the new curves within masks to add color to the highlights of the sky. Thanks!
Excellent, thank you
Thank you for the video - most helpful.
Very cool, and helpful :-) Thanks
Great video, thanks a lot!
Didn’t even realize this came out. Thanks!!
Excellent thank you
I so wanted to know the advantages of having the tone curve in the local adjustment, but could not even imagine what those advantages were. Thank you so very much for your excellent video. I appreciate your teaching style.
Great video. Your content and presentation style are perfect. Thank you.
Thanks so much
Dude... I have watched soo many videos on using lightroom for editing and yours are always by far the easiest and the best . I thank you. I honestly think you made the image look worse but that's just my opinion. I would have changed the sky to mostly blue sky. But its irrelevant because the main thing is I'm learning a lot from your videos
Thanks, and yes, my goal was to teach, that’s why I edited it a little different for the thumbnail. If you fuss with it while teaching, the lesson becomes long and confusing
This was a great help with the use of the curves feature in LR. I am not jumping to PS as often these days.
Very interesting, thanks a lot! I will put them in practice ASAP!
Glad to help
Thanks for your tutorial. I discovered a very strange behavior when using the curves within masking. In a portrait photo I wanted to completely remove a very busy background. I selected the the background and changed in Curves the diagonal in a horizontal 50%L and 50% R line. The background changed in a flat middle gray. I left the mask mode and i had the portrait against nice gray background.
But the strange thing was that i could not change that background anymore whatever changes I try to make in the normal mode. For instance; If I made the picture with the normal exposure-slider a full stop darker only the portrait became darker but the background stayed unaltered.
In order to make that background 'active' again I had to open the picture in photoshop and saved it directly without any changes to Lightroom. The picture could now be edited as a whole.
Thanks! Very instructive! Great use of features and technique. I just subscribed. Geoff
Thanks!
Thanks for the great video!!!!!
Anytime! Thanks
personally I do say: "select sky" then right away option > duplicate and inverse
if I plan to change settings on both, this way I know I have proper two excluding mask that matches perfectly in case the selection is somewhat different when reselecting the sky to make a new selection like you did.
not a big change but that's just my workflow
ty for the tipp :)
I have been waiting for this feature since I switched to Lr from Aperture 3 all those years ago. This is a great description of all its uses, too.
..explained very well........enjoyable to watch...
Thanks
I knew about the new curves function on the masks, I hadn't given weight to the full potential of this function, thanks for pointing it out!!
Great! Thx.
So fun!!
Spot on 🤘
Thanks Colin that helped me as I always go to photoshop and use levels.never to sure on the curves adjustment 😊😊
The curves in PS work the same way.
It's crazy you guys had to wait this long for this, never even knew that LR did not have this.
Great example of what the new masking curves do, Thank You 👍😎
Thanks
Well done. And you used a similar image to one I captured a year ago 😊
Thanks, I learned quite a lot from your presentation.
Awesome!
A very good tutorial Colin; to the point , very precise and clear. Hah, wait to mess around with it👍😜
Have fun
Thank you
I have just learnt a lot in 9 minutes!
So didactic ... thank you ! LR is becoming very powerful with these new settings, including new color grading.
Nice! Thank you!
And, I know that little church in Kaua’i!
Thanks 🙏
Awesome
Very good Colin. I sort of dismissed this feature due to ignorance I suppose but not anymore. Thank you.
Brilliant 👏🏻
thx
Thanks! 😅
Brilliant video for someone new to LR😁👍😁
Awes9me vid, I like your style of explanation. Very easy to follow! Liked n sub’d!
Thanks for the sub!
Thanks
We were not aware this new adjustment was available -- too bad the mask adjustment panels are not a different colour then we could easily recognize when Adobe adds another panel. This newest addition is VERY useful!
Yeah thats been waiting for long and it makes huge , difference and flexibility , i wihing the HSL and seprate color adjustments wth the mask , da vinci has already more than that freedom on the image !!!Lightroom should add these features!!
The A.I selection tool is something I wish Capture One had.
What I would love is for Adobe to allow me full use of those raw masks so I can apply certain presets to parts of the image.
If you right click on the mask and choose to duplicate and invert it also resets the adjustments 👌
Good tip
This new feature just might get me to using curves more!!!! LOL!!!
Yay!
Is it all the same on iPad Pro ? BTW it was really helpful ❤
As for the tone curves: If I change the tone curve only over a single point, it doesn't matter whether I put the point in the shadows or highlights. The curve always bends the same when I move the point up or down. Only when I set a second point do I have the option of protecting this area and changing another tonal area.
This is the way
That's great news! But I'm still waiting for the option of color grading on masks 🙏
That would be nice. Maybe someday :)
Can everything you did there in Lightroom, be done in Photoshop?
once you brought down the exposure and highlights of the sky (@0:45), the sky looks bit like there will be a thunderstorm (like dark grey rain clouds). is there a way to make a cloudy blue sky?
Thank you, Colin for the very informative and helpful video; of course, you do realize that by showing me all the things I didn't know - but now do - you made my life harder because, now I will have to learn how to do them! SMS
I really wonder if there is anyone in the world who truly knows all there is to know about Photoshop or Lightroom; seems to me that one could almost spend their entire lifetime devoted to its study and still now know it all.
What wonderful - almost miraculous - programs. We are very lucky to live in the day and age when we can avail ourselves of them and so many other wonderful programs.
I'm thinking of doing a react video in response to this video you've made here.
thanks, may I know what version is your lightroom?
12.3 Lightroom Classic. The update that just came out recently.
@@photoshopcafe thanks a lot!
Capture One gives access to all the tools when masking, so curve and or level as well. I'd like to see Lightroom doing this (though for now, I'm in PhotoLab where I like my photos better somehow).