Masking Techniques Archives

Easy Luminosity Masking in Photoshop

Easy Luminosity Masking in Photoshop A hot subject in photography and photo editing right now is Luminosity Masking. Having seen some of the stunning photos circulating, this interest isn’t surprising. Unfortunately, there’s also a lot of confusing information circulating that can prevent you from understanding Luminosity Masking. In this tutorial, I want to introduce you to a free tool that ...
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Common Photoshop Masking Problem and Solution

Common Photoshop Masking Problem and Solution There’s a common Photoshop masking problem that seems to be affecting users with increasing regularity. When users create a layer mask, the mask somehow becomes inverted. This doesn’t seem to happen every time they use a mask and can seem intermittent. In this tutorial I’m going to share an example of this masking problem ...
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landscape photo editing workflow Part 4 Special Effects in Photoshop

Post Processing Landscape Photography Workflow

LENSCRAFT PHOTO EDITING TUTORIALSPost Processing Landscape Photography WorkflowRobin Whalley, Landscape Photographer27 August 2019Bamford Edge Heather Post Processing Example In this tutorial, we’re looking at post-processing landscape photography with a simple four-part workflow. But the workflow we’ll use can form the basis of any post-processing to improve a photograph. It doesn’t need to be a landscape photo. The steps in the ...
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Essential Tips for working with photoshop layer masks

Working with Layer Masks in Photoshop

Essential Tips Working with Layer Masks in Photoshop In this tutorial, I want to share my essential tips to improve your photo editing using Layer Masks in Photoshop. Working with Layer Masks in Photoshop is possible the most powerful editing technique you can use. Mastering this will literally unlock adjustments that you might otherwise have thought were impossible. But there ...
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Affinity Photo Luminosity Masks

Creating Affinity Photo Luminosity Masks If you’ve come from a Photoshop background, creating Affinity Photo Luminosity Masks could have you scratching your head. If you Google Luminosity Masks and Affinity Photo, you’re likely to find a couple of things: A simple approach to creating Luminosity Masks in Affinity Photo using the Select Tones option. You may even find one of ...
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WOW! Frequency Equalizer 2 Released

WOW! Frequency Equalizer 2 Released One of my favourite Photoshop plugins has received a makeover. If you’ve never used it, WOW! Frequency Equalizer helps you create frequency separations. When you create a frequency separation you separate the detail in an image (high-frequency information) from the colour (low-frequency information). You can then use this with retouching tools like the cloning and ...
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On1 Masking Tools Explained

On1 Masking Tools Explained Following my recent demonstration on YouTube of the On1 Photo RAW editor, I have received a lot of questions. Most of these are relating to the On1 Masking Tools. What are the sliders doing, how do they work and how do I know what to do with them? If you want the On1 Masking Tools explained, ...
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Ingenious ways to create Lightroom masks and selections

Ingenious Ways to Create a Lightroom Mask

Ingenious Ways to Create a Lightroom Mask To produce great photography with Lightroom, you need to learn to create a Lightroom mask or selection. It's a crucial image editing skill. Historically if you wanted to create a detailed or precise mask, you had to use Photoshop. You probably had to use complex techniques like channel and luminosity masking; techniques not ...
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Introduction to Layer Masks in Photoshop

Introduction to Layer Masks in Photoshop Those new to editing often find layer masks in Photoshop very confusing and difficult to learn. When I first encountered masks it took me several months before I understood what was happening. Most of the information available was complicated and very unhelpful. But once I understood some basic principles, everything seemed to click into ...
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Struggling to Photo Blend in Photoshop?

Struggling to Photo Blend in Photoshop? One of the questions that seems to be asked quite frequently is how can I do a photo blend in Photoshop. Typically, people have two photos and want to blend them together to create a new image. This article is intended to help you understand how to do this using a simple example in ...
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