How You Can Use a Photoshop Elements Luminosity Mask to Lighten a Dark Photo Tutorial
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Luminosity Mask Photoshop Elements. I show how to control lightening a dark photograph in Photoshop Elements without damaging a dark sky using a Luminosity Mask. How to adjust and control that Luminosity Mask once it has been created. Photoshop Elements Luminosity Mask Tutorial.
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Wow! This is an absolutely PRO tutorial. So useful. Thank you!
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This is a really great technique. Tony Kuyper has created a number of actions for Photoshop Elements to create luminosity masks that makes the process dead simple but it's good to know about what you've shown us for a couple of reasons. First off, it gives you a better understanding of what's taking place. It also shows a way to adjust the luminosity mask after it's been created. Excellent tutorial George. Thanks!
You're welcome Tom!
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Excellent tutorial on managing the mask functionality.
Thanks!
Well presented! I was able to follow along and adjust one my NYC night photos.
Glad it was helpful!
@@HTGGeorge I bought your book and started going through it. Unfortunately I couldn't get the google pix sharpening to work on my Mac and I couldn't get the Elements XL to work either. Do you have any videos to go along with the book? I made it to the layers chapter.
@@yvonnejohnson3198 Hi Yvonne, I would love to help you out, but I don't sell a book. You got that from someone else.
That’s one clever tutorial. Thanks you for your work. It really helps people like me.
You're welcome! That is one of my Photoshop tricks that I redid to work with Photoshop Elements. You can find all of my new PSE videos on my new photo channel here: www.youtube.com/@HTGPhoto
You opened up a whole new world of editing with masks that I did not know existed. Thanks. This is definitely simpler , quicker and "cleaner" than using the "selection tool" which I would have used to isolate the sky.
You're welcome. You could also go in and clean up that layer mask using white or black and a soft edge paint brush to further refine how it works.
George
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Wow...this was incredible!
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I have been purchasing Photoshop Elements since version 3. I am still a novice at using the program. I always learn something from your videos. Some of your "How To" videos I have watched more than once, to refresh the notes I take. Thank you!
You're welcome John! It is amazing how much this little program can do once you begin to dig into it.
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Nice trick. Thank you.
You're welcome!
It all made sense to me when I realized by design that black and white pictures are different shades of blacks and whites, which of course is the basic fundamentals of the masking layer. Black hides and white reveals.
That's it. The real trick in this video is using the alt key to open up the layer mask directly allowing you to paste in a black and white image.
George
Had no idea that you could copy and paste into an adjustment masking layer. Thank-you for sharing .
You're welcome Brian, it is a trick I don't use very often but when it works it is just the thing.
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Great tutorial. If Adobe double their Lightroom and Photoshop CC subscription then I may be going to Elements. This is a great workaround for luminosity masks. If Elements works the same as Photoshop then when you were refining the mask using levels, you could also make a Lasso selection and constrain the levels adjustment to certain areas. Thanks.
Thanks, you are right. Once you have the basic layer mask made you can then modify it any way you like to further refine the effect.
George
This is truly an amazing technique! I have to go through this a few times to actually see what is happening here. Having the light coming through while containing the dark seems like a magical trick. How does that even happen? Is it that the dark is lost by turning the original to a black and white and leaving only the light, which is then transferred to the mask? I'm thinking out loud here, but this is the only logic I understand. Just trying to wrap my brain around what is taking place here! Incredible technique, George!!!
HI John, thanks! You can consider a transparency mask like a piece of film placed between the adjustment layer and the image layer. Where the mask is black it blocks out any adjustment from getting through, where the image is white it allows the full adjustment to get through. Of course varying shades of gray allow through varying amounts of the adjustment. Very much like if I had a piece of glass held over a sidewalk on a sunny day and then put black pieces of cardboard on parts of the glass. Where the class was clear (white in the layer mask) the full power of the sun would shine through. The black pieces of cardboard would create shadows that would block the sun from the sidewalk. Same idea with a layer mask. The real trick here is to create the layer mask based on the black to white values of the image.
George
Wow! I can see it, now George. This is incredibly ingenious. Thanks for explaining in detail these concepts. It makes me appreciate all the steps that much more now that I can see what is happening in each step. This is brilliant, George. Thanks!!!
Really nice tutorial, thanks.
You're welcome
George
Thanks for doing this! I see you used the same picture as the photoshop luminosity mask tutorial. Pretty much the same technique, but I see elements doesn't offer the robust BW conversion that photoshop does. Now I'm leaning even more to getting rid of PSCC early next year (won't pay too much of a cancellation penalty then). AND GETTING YOUR ELEMENTS TRAINING COURSE.
Thanks again!
Hi Uncle Skull, the only real difference in the technique is how the luminosity mask image is selected. With Adobe Photoshop you can select right from the Channels, but since Photoshop Elements does not have channels then doing a black and white conversion works just as well. Normally I would use a different picture if showing the same technique for Adobe Photoshop and Photoshop Elements but this picture just worked really well to explain the process. The choice between Adobe Photoshop and Photoshop Elements can be a difficult one if you are working at a consumer or personal level. Adobe Photoshop is much more powerful and feature rich but it does cost more and it is a subscription instead of an outright purchase. Of course for any professional work I always recommend Adobe Photoshop over Elements, again due to the richer feature set. But it is possible to do a lot with Photoshop Elements, even more if you add in a few plugins. I will be reviewing several plugins over the rest of this year.
George
Fantastic video
Thanks Scott
George
Wow, People Showed Luminosity Masks in such a complicated ways with the RGB channels, but you cutting Straight to Black&White and pasting in to the Mask! you did it in an awesome way like BOSS.
Thanks a Ton for a whole new Idea. ;)
(Small Tip-. 1080p Tutorial video would be better, probably thats why you zoomed your videos ;))
Thanks! Working with the channels is also a great way to do this trick, but that only works in Adobe Photoshop not Photoshop Elements. So my technique is a bit of a work around to make Luminosity Masks work in Photoshop Elements.
On the small tip, I record at actual size, no zooming, but I am recording at 720p to keep file sizes down as my videos tend to be long. But since it has been a while since I last tested this I will do some more testing and see how well TH-cam now handles 1080p at my play times.
George
Very helpful! 👍
Thanks!
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So interesting, particularly that the technique was not a million miles different to how you did this using Photoshop. Obviously PSE does not have RGB etc channels, and the b&W conversion is not as sophisticated. The overall effect is the same, though, and I agree entirely with what Drinking Star has said in his comment. And with the problems I'm having with the alleged Quick Selection tool, then the less I have to use it the happier I am!! Thanks again, George.
You're welcome Peter, it is very useful to understand how much control can be had with a layer mask. This is just one example. I agree about the Quick Selection Tool which is why you never see it in my TH-cam projects.
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Thanks George, I've tried to create a luminosity in PSE 13 but was somewhat frustrated with the effort and limited results. Your approach is simple, elegant and efficient. Could you create the reverse affect on a too light image by inverting the luminosity mask?
Hi Jack, you can invert the layer mask into a negative and then control the mid-tones to darks but keep in mind it is easier to lighten a dark picture than to darken a light picture. Usually with a light picture I will duplicate the the layer and then blend those two layers using the multiply blend mode, that adds more colors and values back into the image. If all you want to do is to darken down the lights then just use the bottom slider control in the Levels adjustment and move the right side a bit towards the left. That will limit the lights, you may then have to move the right side slider on the top control a bit to the left as well to bring back in some contrast.
George
Thanks for that George.
WOW!!!!! This is fantastic George, I have been messing around with Luminosity for over two months now and really could not come up with something that worked. I was doing selections, tried a few things with Elements + but was limited there even. For me, the issue this time of year are those fall photographs that would really pop if you could have better control over the Luminosity. I have done several but they look fake because I always end up over saturating the photo. So, this is really a big deal for me. Let me also as in the same breath, if one was to control the dark's more opposite of luminosity, all you would need to do is inverse the luminosity mask, correct? Can you also mask to adjust 50% grey???? Is that a possibility???
Bingo! Huge time saver and I am off to the races!!! Thanks George!
Rich
Thanks Rich, you are correct. If you want to apply the adjustment from the darks instead of from the lights just invert the layer mask image to make it a negative. Where ever it is white it will let through the adjustment and where ever it is black it will block the adjustment. Adjusting only the mid-tone grays is a bit trickier. You need to create a black and white image that is white in the mid-tones and black at both ends of the scale. I haven't tried this myself but it seems to me you would create one black and white image then adjust it to burn out the lights thereby moving the grays towards the white (clear). Then create a negative black and white image and do the same trick, again leaving the mid-tones in white. Then merge those two images using a blend mode. Not sure which would work the best without playing around with it a bit but it would be something like this. Good project idea, I will play around with it.
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Is there a way to color grade/ tone in elements? Or selective coloring? Thanks!
Hi, here are a few videos that show some colorization techniques using gradient maps.
th-cam.com/video/YBDNc1IZVv4/w-d-xo.html
th-cam.com/video/Xct1hc-vVKI/w-d-xo.html
and here is one on white balance th-cam.com/video/KPCmuQI7fbk/w-d-xo.html
And if you have seen something you like done in Adobe Photoshop show me the video link and I will make a video on how to do it in Elements if it is possible. Also keep an eye on my channel, by this weekend I am putting up a video on a great free plugin for Elements that has some really nice color tools.
George
How To Gurus Thank you so much for this! I'll definitely check it out 🤗
George, I have been studying luminosity masks for about a week now and they simply don’t work for me. When I use the curves layer and adjust my pictures they just simply don’t look good. Are they as powerful and I have heard? If so I need to look for a way I can figure them out other then watching random you tube videos because of all of the things I have learned about photoshop in the past year these are the hardest for me. That and gradients of course, lol. Do you have some kind of suggestion for me on a way I can go?
Thank you, John
Hi John, Luminosity Masks are one of those techniques that are only appropriate on some photos. Basically it needs a foreground with lots of brights and a background that should remain dark. Works especially well on night shots of cities. Basically it is just masking out the dark areas so that you can brighten up the light areas. Another way to do the same thing is to use the magic wand and select the dark areas, then use Select/Inverse so that the selection is only on the light areas and then lighten as required. Same idea, just a different way to get there.
George
drinkingstar says what i was going to say! (and i, mistakenly, as it turns out), thought i knew just about everything in elements!)
Thanks Zena, I'm still learning new things about Photoshop Elements all the time myself. Amazing program, especially for the price.
George
too grown-up for me yet
No worries, most people will never have a need for this advanced technique
Another good tutorial. Thank you.
You're welcome Frank
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