Beginners: This Masking Mistake Ruins a Photo

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[@socalduck1]

Another good one Jim. I always learn something new in each of your videos, even if I think that I already know that topic area.

[@JimNix]

I'm glad to hear that, and thanks for watching!

[@pedelkamp]

You are the Best don't tell Mr Vanelli🤣

[@JimNix]

haha thanks Paul, it's our little secret! Then again, maybe I should taunt him a little to keep his ego in check. 🤣

[@RonaldBrown59]

You take masking to an art form. Great tutorial, thanks for sharing.

[@JimNix]

thanks so much Ron, that is very kind of you to say!

[@glenloderhose5331]

Thanks Jim very helpful

[@JimNix]

thank you for watching!

[@gpdoyon]

Great video! I’m going to buy your master masking course.

[@JimNix]

thanks so much!

[@hughellins1422]

Another useful one . One thing what were you sitting in front of you had a definite purple reflection on your face

[@JimNix]

thanks Hugh and I think that is my background on my laptop shining color on my face

[@hughellins1422]

@@JimNix That's good to know I was beginning to think you were a being from another world - (joke)

[@JimNix]

@@hughellins1422 LOL

[@Centauri27]

You should suggest to Skylum that they default the brush to maximum softness, rather than zero softness. I haven't seen any videos where someone has recommended using a brush at anything other than maximum softness. (Kinda like the "invert mask" that we always had to do on radial masks, until they made the inverted the default. 😀)

[@JimNix]

thanks Carl and yeah the only time I could think of using zero softness is perhaps a straight line (architecture for example) where you are adding detail or light to a specific, straight column or something - hope that makes sense, but it would be quite rare for sure

[@Jmcarr24]

Do you have a tutorial for editing iPhone photos for beginners or a vid you would direct me to? Thank you

[@JimNix]

I treat iPhone images the same as other images in terms of how I approach an edit. So all of my videos are applicable, regardless of the camera used. However, depending on the photo, I would likely do heavier noise reduction and/or sharpening with an iPhone image. Here is my Getting Started playlist for Luminar Neo, which may help: th-cam.com/play/PLye10L-yi8hU9TDtAlzGAhDEPEDOedlVD.html&si=F8EJPgcSaZ-7DnSO