What clever ways do you have of using masks in Camera Raw and Lightroom? Let us know in the comments. You can select any of the mask and make adjustments to those parts of the image independently.ĭon’t forget to watch the short video (3 mins) above to see all this in action and gain more insight. Notice the Sky and Gradient badges are visible. This gives us a nice gradual blend into the horizon. Now the gradient will be constrained to only the sky area. When there are multiple elements to subtract, its better to intersect.Ĭlick the eclipses to the right of gradient and choose Intersect with We could subtract the subject, but how could we also subtract the background? Notice that the foreground and the subject are masked. Intersecting a gradient mask in Camera RAWĭo you wonder what Intersect does? This will mask only the areas where 2 masks overlap each other and ignore everything else. If we remove the subject from the selection, we will have isolated the background.Ĭhoose Subtract from the Masks Panel and choose select Subject In the Masks panel click the 3 ellipses to the right of sky. This might seem easy, but you have to be a little tricky if you want to select the background, because there is no select background option.Īs we did in the previous step, select the sky.
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When the Mask panel is open and you want a new mask, click Create Mask. Any adjustments will affect the masked area only. You can use Lightroom if you prefer.Ĭlick the mask icon to open the masks options To get into Camera Raw, choose Filter>Camera Raw. If you haven’t, subscribe to our youtube channel by clicking the subscribe button under the video. Artificial Intelligence helps us to isolate these areas easily. This is the image we will begin with, it contains a hiker (subject) and sky and a foreground. See my tutorial on basic Masking in Lightroom (The tutorials work on both apps, Camera Raw and Lightroom work exactly the same way). This might seem obvious, but there are a few tricks you need to know to use the mask tool effectively and this tutorial will make it easy. In this tutorial Im going to show you how to mask different parts of an image including subject, sky, foreground and a combination mask that adds a gradient to the sky, but the sky only. This tutorial uses Camera Raw, but it’s identical in Lightroom. Masking has been added to Camera RAW and Lightroom. How to mask different things in Adobe Camera RAW and Lightroom
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