TK8 PLUGIN for PHOTOSHOP: Working With Selections
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Today's TK FRIDAY tutorial is all about SELECTIONS and how to use them with the TK8 Plugin. I have provided image Download links for the two stock images I will be working on in this tutorial. You will be able to follow along with me and practice these techniques and this will help you to increase your skills when using the TK8 PLUGIN for PHOTOSHOP. (Happy Editing)...
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Today's TK FRIDAY tutorial is all about SELECTIONS and how to use them with the TK8 Plugin. I have provided image Download links for the two stock images I will be working on in this tutorial. You will be able to follow along with me and practice these techniques and this will help you to increase your skills when using the TK8 PLUGIN for PHOTOSHOP. (Happy Editing)...
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Mountain and Sand: unsplash.com/photos/Vx7CH5eUE2M
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Happiness is TK Friday. Every tutorial has new techniques that make me a better post processor. Thank you!
Hey that second photo is my photo! Good job, always cool to see a different perspective, and thanks for linking it to my Unsplash :) Love the content!
Certainly have to pay attention as, if not, it's easy to screw it up!!! Wonderful! Thank you for doing these, Dave.
Dave - you deserve a much bigger subscriber base! These TK videos show really good insight, and expand their versatility tremendously.
Thanks Dave. You provided a lot of information in this tutorial. I will definitely have to re-watch it. I always learn so much on TK-Friday.
Hello Dave, I'm using the TK panel quite a time. I've startet with the V4. Since I've discovered your excellent videos I've learned very much. Only now, thanks to your videos, I am able to use the plug-in properly. I watched many other videos on the subject during that time. But no one can convey the topic as well as you. It was a good day when YT suggested me your channel ;-)
Thank you very much from Switzerland
Markus
Thanks Markus you have made my day.🙂
Great info again mate, really enjoying your Fridays series! TK8 is so much fun! Thanks!
Bonjour Dave, encore un tk friday intéressant, cela parait tellement simple !
I really enjoy your videos especially the TK Fridays, they have helped me tremendously. This one being another great one. Keep up the great work and this channel will grow. Thanks again.
Dave. I just re-watched. It's so good and everytime I watch it, I learn, or remember, something else. Thanks!
Great to hear!
Thanks Dave. Your video and TK Friday the best! 💖
Layers and layers of knowledge built up on Fridays thanks to you. Well done!
I learned a lot! Thank you, Dave, for sharing your knowledge. I especially enjoy TK Fridays!
Another amazing tutorial. Thank you Dave and Tony. I'll watch it again and again. It really helps.
Another extremely well done tutorial that builds on your previous ones. Easy to follow your clear explanations with examples and truly demonstrates the power of the TK panel.
Whew! So much great technique! This ol' retired guy may need a nap before moving on. ;-)
This could be titled as a Masterclass, considering the amount of knowledge you provided us. Thank you so much for that.
Best regards from Rio de Janeiro/Brazil.
You're very welcome!
Wow! That was wonderful Dave! You answered some lingering questions I had on the calculator tool when you performed this edit. I'm saving all these videos for future reference. Sometimes I complicate my life looking for solutions and the answer is right there with the simple methods you show-cased here. The rectangular marquee tool I've sometimes overlooked is very powerful in combination with the tools on the TK8 panel. I really enjoyed this TK Friday!
These tk8 videos are incredible. I’ve only been using about 10% of the plug-in.
This was an awesome tutorial! It helped me understand more and more how the calculator works. It has always been a portion of the panel I wanted more knowledge of.
Awesome! Dave, keep them coming. Thanks
The TK8 Panel and Sean's video course is the best bargain on the internet. And Dave's videos are, hands down, the best way to learn how to make use of the CX and Masking panels.
Wow, thanks!
Hello Dave, wow, this TK Friday video was packed with a lot of TK goodies. I thought I had a pretty good knowledge on how to use the TK plugin but your videos are broadening my post processing horizon. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and for your contagious enthusiasm. Cheers!
AMAZING Stuff Dave ! I learned so much from this Video.
I now have a great way of spending a Friday evening - a couple of bottles of German Wheat Beer whilst watching one of your excellent TK Friday videos. I like so many others am learning a great deal from your videos - thank you so much Dave.
Wow, Dave, you are taking off in your TK Panels skills. This was an extra good one. Will watch again to make sure I got everything. Thanks much!
Treated myself TK Friday on a Monday!
I am getting more and more enthusiastic about TK8 - and mostly about your teaching. It's possible to use TK8 only by your profound explanations.
Wow, this one is really special, learnt many new things today, thanks very much Dave, now I will view it again 😊
Asome I realy learn how to manipulate all that Tk8 button and understand all the importance of selection and mask. Thanks for all this Tuto video
Thanks Dave for this video, really is the best way to learn TK8 panel. Great.
excellent job, learning a ton
great tutorial Dave thank you so much
Another excellent video, Dave thanks! Using the mask calculator to simply selections + color grading will work for me, improving images without making overly dramatic changes. Practicing with your example files will be helpful, as well.
With every video you produce I can really see the power of the plug-in. Many thanks to share your creative work. Saludos,
Thanks Dave Great content 👍
Fantastic! Both thumbs up!
Very good. As always.
Very good as usual
Great workflow
Hi Dave: Amazing video. I feel that my post-processing knowledge is increasing exponentially each time I watch your videos. As I have indicated many times before, I really appreciate the way you explain why you are doing each technique vs. just doing the technique. The educational value of this approach is wonderful. Great job and I am really looking forward to next week's video. I'll be adding this video to my 'Saved' list so I can easily reference the material when I am post-processing. Cheers, Keith P.S. Have you considered allowing your viewers to send you an image to be used as the subject image for our weekly videos?
Thanks Keith and that is a great idea.
Very good. Thank you!
Thanks! Love the tutorial. I did have a somewhat difficult time following your quick movements to and away from the tools you selected. Had to stop and rewatch many times. But the information was great and as I dig further into the process it shoud come naturally.
Thank you Jim for the Super Thanks.
I have been working through some more of your excellent TK8 masking/selections videos and at last with your help (and some more chilled German beer!), I am beginning to GET IT. When you start to really get in to the intricacies of the panel it becomes ever so exciting, making editing in PSCC even more enjoyable than I previously thought.
That is great to hear Martin.
Oh my gosh, I'm exhausted! (It helps if you click the marquee tool and not the rectangle tool...). The mountain image was a lot of fun.
Thank you . I admire and respect the amount of work you put into these tutorials . Photoshops own select and mask has plenty of tweaks available . I found the steps to be way too many .
Hi Dave: I just went back and watched the video at the same time editing the image myself. The video was much more powerful if you edit the image at the same time. Cheer, Keith
Saved!
Great tutorial! I learned so much. One thing I sometimes wonder about is the layers that TK puts up, mostly temporary. Could you occasionally point them out, and their significance? Thanks! (I just subscribed.)
Thanks!
Thank you so much Patrick...I want to wish you a very Merry Christmas...
Hi Dave..I use this technique more and more these days. But I realized as I reviewed this video that I did not understand why, towards the end when you darkened the water via the object selection and blur, you had to click on th plus to add the color grading tool. Just before, using select sky, it was not necessary to click the plus tool. My question then, is what is the difference between these two selection approaches? Thank you
Takk!
G'day Dave,
I most admire you for those demonstrations on TK8 videos, your energy, clear voice, quality of instructions, methods of mask selections, numerous know how's, have all made me decided to purchase TK8.
Please continue to make more demonstration/lessons to lighten our learning.
Before I proceed, I need to know if 1 purchase will fit my needs as I use Mac book with CS6 plus a PC with Win10, PS2022. Will I need to buy 2 copies?
Thank you. Here is a note from the TK8 Website concerning Mac and Windows Computers: Works on both Windows and Mac (including Apple silicon computers, like Mac M1) starting in Photoshop 2021. Note: TK8 will NOT work in any version of Photoshop older than Photoshop 2021. You only need one copy but it will not work in your Mac running Photoshop CS6 but it will work in your Windows running PS 2022.
Great as always. Making working with the TK8 panel easier and more powerful with each video. Next I will be extremely picky. What you have call a lake is actually the Atlantic Ocean as the image is from Vestrhorn (a place I love) in Iceland. Perhaps you have not been there. If so you must. Great iconic photography spot. Keep up the good work!!!!
Thanks. Oh boy, I got that wrong calling a lake an ocean. I haven't been there but would love to go...
@@thejoyofeditingwithdavekelly not to worry…I was try to be funny (and a bit naughty). Definitely well worth the visit!!!
Super-Dave, I say ;)
Thanks Dave another great tutorial. I find often that I hit the wrong X when using the intersect in the calculator, must pay more attention :-( . I have been wondering a while if you have a Scottish connection as you quite often say "Wee" as in a wee dram :-)
Thanks Peter. No Scottish but a bit 1/2 Irish...
You practical techniques are so easy to follow. When you used the dodge and burn tools on the mountain, why didn't the brush color change (it stayed black)? On the last part, why did you have to "+" on the color grading tool, when you haven't had to previously?
The brush Color didn’t change because the dodge and burn tools are not brushes and work differently than brushes do. I was using the dodge tool on the mountain to make the lighter gray areas white without effecting the black tones outside of the mountain . I was using the burn tool to make the darker gray areas outside of the mountain turn black without effecting the white areas inside of the mountain. In answer to your 2nd question : If you have a selection loaded and click on the Color Grading Tool Icon, the Color Grading Tool (which is a Curves Adjustment Layer) will not be applied until you click the “+”. When you are outputting a Mask to a Color Grading Tool you don’t have to click the “+”.
@@thejoyofeditingwithdavekelly Thanks, Dave! (1) D'Oh! Dodge and burn, not brushes. duh! (2) Ah, selection vs. mask. Dave, you're awesome!
I am happy to help Roger. It is hard to keep all of this stuff straight.
@@thejoyofeditingwithdavekelly Thank you for giving so much helpful clarity. These tools are really amping up my creative processing.
You’re welcome Roger.
Dave sometimes you use the + sign when you are using the grading tool and sometimes not, why is that? Love TK Fridays! Mario
Good Question. When you Output a Mask created in the TK8 Multi-Mask Panel to a Color Grading Tool you won't need to use the + sign. However, if you want to apply a Selection to a Color Grading Tool you will need to use the + sign...
Dave, I am having difficulty understanding the Intersect action. For some reason I have not idea what Intersect means. Can you please explain? I don't understand it in this tutorial, nor did I understand it in your tutorials on ACR Masking.
At this point I only use Intersections with selections and that is what I will try to explain. Intersect takes the area that is selected and combines it with another selected area. For instance, if you have a plain selection (made with a Lasso Tool or any Photoshop Selection Tool) and intersect it with a Lights 1 Mask you will now see the Lasso Selection filled with a Lights 1 Mask... If you take that same Lasso Selection Tool and select a different area of your image and Intersect it with a Darks 4 Mask (Using the Mask Calculator in the TK8 Multi-Mask Panel) and Click = you will see the Darks 4 Mask inside of the Lasso Selection (I am referring to the = found in the TK8 Mask Calculator). I hope this makes sense. Watch the video again especially the part where I use the Marquee Selection Tool and Intersect the Selected area with a Zone Mask (Selecting the Dark Sand). You will see that Zone shows up inside the Marquee Selection.
"Intersection" is represented by the "X" or "times" mathematical operator because it is a multiplication calculation. In other words, intersection with the Mask Calculator multiplies the pixel values of two masks together to create a new "calculated"l mask. In Dave's examples, one of the masks is usually made up of pure white (or nearly pure white) pixels for selected areas and pure black (or nearly pure black) pixels for non-selected areas. For example, the Marquee tool always produces a mask that is only black and white. There are no gray values. This makes the multiplication operation (intersection) easy because white pixels have a value of "1" and black pixels have a value of "0" (zero). Anything multiplied by zero equals zero, and anything multiplied by one equals the other number in the operation. So, if one mask is pure white and pure black, the result of multiplying (intersecting) it with another mask can easily be predicted. The back pixels remain black and the white pixels take on the value of the other mask by which it is multiplied.
This is best seen in this video in the flamingo image example where the water (pure white) is intersected with the Zone mask. After the intersection calculation, the black area (the flamingo) remains black in the new "calculated" mask and the white area (the water) looks like the other mask (the Zone mask).
This can also be seen when Dave intersects the sky in the mountain image (the Sky selection is mostly pure white) with a Midtones-2 mask. The black (non-sky areas) remain black in the "calculated" mask and the white Sky looks like the Midtones-2 mask in the "calculated" mask. There are some gray tones in the Sky selection that will multiply out differently, but it won't have a significant effect in the final "calculated" mask.
So, including a mask that is composed almost entirely of pure black and pure wait makes an intersection calculation quite predictable since white = 1 and black = 0 in the black and white mask. Things get a lot more complicated when multiplying things like Luminosity masks with each other. With these masks, there maybe be no 0 and 1 values. Instead, the various gray pixels would have values between 0 and 1, like 0.5 and 0.25. The multiplication principle still holds when intersecting these masks, but it's much harder to multiply values between 0 and 1 together in your head and predict the results. The one thing that is predictable is that the "calculated" mask will always appear darker. For example, 0.5 * 0.5 = 0.25. This means that pixels that are 50% selected (brightness value = 0.5) in both masks would only be 25% selected (brightness value = 0.25) in the "calculated" mask if these two masks were intersected with each other.
Bottom line is that intersection is much easier to understand if you have one mask that is nearly pure black and pure white. This makes it entirely predictable what the "calculated" mask will look like.
@@TonyKuyper Tony thanks for commenting and clarifying intersection, Your bottom line comment makes the process clearer.
@@thejoyofeditingwithdavekelly Thanks Dave for your explanation. As soon as I have time to work through your examples I'll let you know the results.
@@TonyKuyper Thanks Tony, for your reply. I'm going to work through your examples, then I'll let you know the results. You two guys make a pretty good team.
Great video but I'm pretty sure that you have shown all these techniques on previous TK Fridays. Is there any other ways to use TK that you have not shown us yet?
Thanks AlphaT and yes, much more. Every image is different and has it's own particular ways of working with the TK8 Multi-mask panel. I am building off of past videos and there is overlap, but this video was centered on different ways of making selections. The very first way I showed to select the Flamingo was done with the TK8 Multi-Mask Panel alone. I have never shown this technique before...
Dave: Could you explain your determination with this statement? With the second picture (mountain/sand), you state that you want to increase the contrast between the foreground orangish grass and the dark underlying sand by DARKENING the bright grass. You then go on to select the grass and indeed do darken it, but thereby REDUCING the contrast with the sand. And indeed, when you’re done there is LESS contrast here; thus my confusion! Was this your intent? Or was this simply to demonstrate how to select the grass? Personally, I think the photo looked better without this intervention.
My thought was, I lightened the sand and the grass was already light so by bringing down the lightness of the grass I would be increasing the contrast between the sand and the grass.
Perhaps, the sky is via a luminosity mask and the water is via a selection?
I am trying in my mind to remember this video and what I did but I think you are right. You need to click the + on the Color Grading Tool to add it to a layer. If you make a selection with any of the Photoshop Selection Tools and Click the + to add a Color Grading Tool the Selection will be applied to the Mask of the Color Grading Tool.
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