Lightroom's SECRET sky masking trick

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  • Опубліковано 22 гру 2024

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  • @dtravisphd
    @dtravisphd Рік тому +10

    Select Sky bleeds into the foreground (at low opacity) to prevent haloes appearing at the sky/foreground border. Ironically, although your hack seems to give a more precise selection of the sky, it may also cause haloes to appear at the border (especially with extreme adjustments).

  • @cmichaelhaugh8517
    @cmichaelhaugh8517 9 місяців тому +1

    I’ve been finding more and more non-obvious tricks to masking. This has been very helpful. Thanks!

  • @geofffield7805
    @geofffield7805 Рік тому +2

    I'm guessing that when LR selects the sky it is analysing the whole image to identify the sky and mask it, but when you subtract the sky from the sky mask, it's only analysing the sky mask and the foreground areas into which it has bled. This might enable the AI analysis to be more targeted and subtract the sky more accurately. Anyway - it's a fascinating discovery and many thanks for making this video. Masks are amazing tools and there is so much to learn and discover!

  • @andyg1957
    @andyg1957 2 місяці тому

    Really well explained, off to try this out right now!

  • @ralphpayne6259
    @ralphpayne6259 Рік тому +1

    Wow, thank you for thinking outside the box (well, okay the mask😁). Liked and now subscribing.

  • @gscottfuller
    @gscottfuller Місяць тому

    Excellent LR lesson! Been struggling with all these issues in my bird photography. Hope this works on separating sky from wing tip feathers and tree branches!

  • @PMCN53
    @PMCN53 Рік тому +5

    This mini tutorial is fantastic! Thanks 👍🏻

  • @GrantMcKenzie-p4c
    @GrantMcKenzie-p4c Рік тому +1

    Holly crap.
    You just solved so many editing problems with Lightroom making..
    Awesomeness X 10

  • @emkay2903
    @emkay2903 Рік тому +1

    Thanks for this great tip. This is the best result that I’ve found on YT.

  • @ihateunicorns867
    @ihateunicorns867 Рік тому +5

    I always thought that Lightroom's selection of reflected sky was deliberate, because if you change the hue or lightness or whatever of the sky, you'd also want to reflected sky to take on those changes.

  • @richardhaire5001
    @richardhaire5001 2 місяці тому

    This helps a lot! Thank you!!

  • @johndwilliams
    @johndwilliams Рік тому +2

    Once again, you’ve shown us a little known tool with amazing results. I’ve tried it myself and what a difference to accurate masking!

  • @MsOnce4all
    @MsOnce4all Рік тому

    One of the best Lightroom tips I've viewed. Thank you, Todd!

  • @danielforster719
    @danielforster719 Рік тому +21

    I have been very frustrated with the sky selection in LR, and this is brilliant. Thanks for figuring out how to get a good sky selection and sharing it!

  • @PhreddCrintt
    @PhreddCrintt Рік тому +1

    You have answered my prayer! Thank you SO much Todd! I have been looking for such a process for so long now!

  • @SebastianMoreno82
    @SebastianMoreno82 Рік тому

    Todd what a cool discovery there, i will go ahead and test it next time I'm editing my shots

  • @kif411
    @kif411 Рік тому

    🤯mind blown, thanks for the tip and technique tutorial

  • @stanleyjacobson2617
    @stanleyjacobson2617 Рік тому +1

    Very intriguing and very helpful.......just wondering how you discovered that subtract the sky from the sky?????

  • @girardjeremie1939
    @girardjeremie1939 Рік тому

    You're a genius! Thank you so much! I have to say that I laughed very loud when you substracted the sky from the sky and I saw the result!

  • @timotrilk5000
    @timotrilk5000 10 місяців тому

    I don't even use Lightroom, but clicked on the video anyways and brooooo. This example image is just borderline the best fu***in image I have ever seen. Holy damn. Keep the good work up!

  • @tomatengarage5608
    @tomatengarage5608 Рік тому

    Oh yes, this Video is helpful. I wasn't aware of the chance to "subtract the sky from itself in order to get a perfect selection of the sky". Sounds weird, but the result is convincing! Thanks for this Clip! Thumbs up!

  • @1973Antoniob
    @1973Antoniob Рік тому

    In less than 10 min you have explain very well how working the masks in Lr. Others are selling hours of on line course to explain that. Many thanks.

  • @mustangshelby2740
    @mustangshelby2740 11 місяців тому

    Excellent tutorial .. good trick you had was the duplicate of the mask then perform another mask . I often add on extra mask on the same mask but it becomes a mess and damage the previous mask . Good job and really enjoyed it . Very simple task and straight to the sample .

  • @ZombieRofl
    @ZombieRofl Рік тому

    Lightroom Classic is such a powerful and fast editor. I wish the competition will have these features.

    • @Fessoid
      @Fessoid Рік тому

      ACDSee 2024 is most comparable to LR, very fast and fine-organized digital assets manager.
      Also it has a 'Photoshop' - like enviroment just build in 'Lightroom' without opening another app.

  • @J5388T
    @J5388T Рік тому +1

    This is a brilliant tip, thanks! I've tried it out on a few files since watching this video and its far superior to the method I was using to intersect colour/ luminance or another sky selection with the initial sky selection.

  • @wizard6207
    @wizard6207 Рік тому

    Fantastic. At last the problem solved. Thank you Todd. 👍

  • @stewartlogie
    @stewartlogie Рік тому

    Excellent tips!

  • @jmodwyer1
    @jmodwyer1 Рік тому

    Great insight - I was using the brush to fix my masks, but this gives me a whole new option.

  • @KimberlyGJones
    @KimberlyGJones Рік тому

    Wow! This is fantastic! Thank you for sharing this.

  • @markham56
    @markham56 Рік тому

    Brilliant! I will use these techniques tomorrow!

  • @nevvanclarke9225
    @nevvanclarke9225 Рік тому

    The theory, because I do a lot of landscape photography as well. If you look at the light, when you are out shooting and say those rocks were there, there would be a fair bit of what I call refracted light from the sky onto the rocks. Now sometimes I will just except the Sky mask initially and edit it as what I say however then what I do is do I subtract but then what I do is subtract the subject icon and then you can just use areas on those rocks as a subtraction. it’s a little bit similar to what you did, but it works quite well 99% of the time. This is an interesting hack.

  • @danielrao3120
    @danielrao3120 Рік тому

    Excellent! Extremely helpful. Thank you.

  • @frank23mm
    @frank23mm Рік тому

    This tutorial is very helpful. Thank you🙏

  • @rgarlinyc
    @rgarlinyc Рік тому

    Very clever! I think you're guess is right - that Adobe's AI calcs differ between creating and subtracting from a mask... I shall certainly employ this trick - Thanks a ton!

  • @hansverleysen7394
    @hansverleysen7394 Рік тому

    Great tutorial

  • @stuartvh4562
    @stuartvh4562 Рік тому

    This is so cool, Todd, thanks for sharing!

  • @DeanneProbst
    @DeanneProbst Рік тому

    Very helpful video, Todd. Thanks for creating it.

    • @dominey
      @dominey  Рік тому

      Glad it was helpful!

  • @antonvamplew
    @antonvamplew Рік тому

    Thanks for the great and concise tutorial! My only question is: where in the US (I’m guessing) is that wonderful landscape?

  • @MCGreenofly
    @MCGreenofly Рік тому

    Great tricks Todd, Thanks!

  • @PowellGuide
    @PowellGuide Рік тому

    Fantastic tutorial. Very well explained. You have a new sub.

  • @NewLifeInsurance2020
    @NewLifeInsurance2020 4 місяці тому

    wow! Glad you figured that out. Thanks!

  • @thomasammann7157
    @thomasammann7157 Рік тому

    Very nice hack! Would have never thought of trying this 😀

  • @osbornecropfield4058
    @osbornecropfield4058 Рік тому

    Great tips - as always; thx. for sharing.

  • @tonymckeage1028
    @tonymckeage1028 Рік тому

    Great Video Todd, I've been using the select sky mask in camera raw since it was introduced, The more subtle masking i haven't been doing so i will work on that, thanks for sharing

  • @gianmariozucconi3242
    @gianmariozucconi3242 Рік тому

    Great Todd!!
    It's nice to discover interesting and very useful details in the post.
    Lightroom is becoming more and more mature every day and sufficient to handle 90% of my images;-)

  • @wasatchpowder
    @wasatchpowder Рік тому

    Great presentation skills. I learned something new. thanks.

  • @joshkaiser
    @joshkaiser Рік тому

    Great tips Todd. Especially the subtracting sky from the sky hack. What made you think to try that?

  • @HBadger89
    @HBadger89 Рік тому

    Very, very cool. Thank you!

  • @natelett
    @natelett Рік тому

    This was really interesting and helpful! I haven't played around with the Intersect tool, that's definitely one I need to experiment with more. Thanks!

  • @vadimgouida
    @vadimgouida 11 місяців тому

    It was a second video with better sky mask that I watched today. I meant - select sky, remove sky and inverse. I tried this method on a few files and it produced select sky results worse that just select sky.

  • @jimgrantham6139
    @jimgrantham6139 Рік тому

    Great work Todd

  • @browniepinoy
    @browniepinoy Рік тому

    Thanks for the tips and tricks

  • @claude8199
    @claude8199 Рік тому

    Really great tricks. Thanks

  • @michaelmillward8006
    @michaelmillward8006 Рік тому

    Thatd a brilliant solution, although it probably is the case that the sky mask does this deliberately. Ive been frustrated by the way it currently works but actually applying the correction to the "inaccurate" selection often works very well .

  • @pdel7007
    @pdel7007 Рік тому

    I'm learning LR there is so much to learn !

  • @BubblesPothowari
    @BubblesPothowari Рік тому

    Defies Logic but WORKS !!! Thank you indeed.

  • @liverpoolpictorial
    @liverpoolpictorial Рік тому

    Thanks, Todd. This is genius. Subscribed.

  • @dandan1364
    @dandan1364 8 місяців тому

    Impressive video. Thank you.

  • @niallfeatherstone
    @niallfeatherstone Рік тому

    Some great tips, I love using masks and this has gave me more ideas for playing around with them!

  • @rajeshmuthuswamy7339
    @rajeshmuthuswamy7339 Рік тому

    Thank you for a great video. A question , when I use brush extensively then I see that the system takes a long time to update and apply the changes , any suggestion on how to speed up

  • @craigianmenzies
    @craigianmenzies Рік тому

    Ok, going to have to try this out.

  • @colinmelhuish1254
    @colinmelhuish1254 Рік тому

    That was so helpful. So well thought out. Thanks for posting. (subscribed)

  • @lukaszbrozek
    @lukaszbrozek Рік тому

    What a great tips. Thank you.

  • @luisjg2628
    @luisjg2628 Рік тому

    Hello.¡ Thank you very much for your advice and classes, they are very interesting and useful. 👍👍

  • @andygrope4562
    @andygrope4562 3 місяці тому

    Love it, Thanks,

  • @michelattieh4346
    @michelattieh4346 Рік тому

    Incredibly helpful!!!

  • @c777lf
    @c777lf 4 місяці тому

    Really good stuff. thank you

  • @jmgcg
    @jmgcg Рік тому

    It is very helpful. Thank you

  • @eyeammjh
    @eyeammjh Рік тому

    What a hack! Thank you for sharing

  • @34Media
    @34Media Рік тому

    very handy cheers Todd appreciate it

  • @SebastianBevanPhotography
    @SebastianBevanPhotography Рік тому

    Ideal, cheers for that Todd

  • @mahoutie
    @mahoutie Рік тому

    Well, that's a bit odd. But it works! Thanks Todd.

  • @peterebel7899
    @peterebel7899 Рік тому

    What a great trick!

  • @sejalgpatelphoto
    @sejalgpatelphoto Рік тому

    Great video Toddd

  • @tobization
    @tobization Рік тому

    Well done. Keep up the good work!

  • @chaosinthematrix
    @chaosinthematrix 10 місяців тому

    Very cool - thanks.

  • @haies09
    @haies09 Рік тому

    Credit to Brian Matiash for this finding

  • @i.m.5621
    @i.m.5621 Рік тому

    Great and really helpfull.

  • @mikaelwerner1
    @mikaelwerner1 9 місяців тому

    Brilliant!

  • @jonasweiss5817
    @jonasweiss5817 Рік тому

    Intersect with Sky works, too.

  • @iqueque
    @iqueque Рік тому

    Do you have a technique to eliminate the halo that often accompanies sky selection?

  • @karimlahlou132
    @karimlahlou132 Рік тому

    Hello thkxxx for this video....insane

  • @gashead2
    @gashead2 Рік тому

    Brilliant thanks

  • @tannskaya
    @tannskaya 6 місяців тому

    Damn, thanks!!

  • @ghpatriot
    @ghpatriot Рік тому

    You da man!

  • @randyschwager2515
    @randyschwager2515 Рік тому

    Very helpful information! Thanks for sharing!

  •  Рік тому

    Subtract sky from sky... Very interesting, but I would be very careful. As you said, it sounds like a hack. It means that when you open the same file under LrC one eg. year later, this hack will not work and our beautiful photo will look strange because changed shape of mask.

  • @Veeremets
    @Veeremets 7 місяців тому

    Weeeeery nice trick

  • @chriscard6544
    @chriscard6544 Рік тому

    is it intended or a glitch ? at least it's a genius idea to substract sky from sky and see

  • @jeffmichaels2672
    @jeffmichaels2672 Рік тому

    Nice 👍

  • @ScotTheGr8
    @ScotTheGr8 Рік тому

    WOW!!!

  • @RobertReynolds-k8s
    @RobertReynolds-k8s Рік тому +9

    Why do content creators insist on calling things secret. Its really stupid, they are not secret, they are simply functions of a product.

    • @dandan1364
      @dandan1364 8 місяців тому +1

      Lightroom developers never anticipated the necessity of click bait titles to drive monetization. I’m just thankful it wasn’t “shocking Lightroom secrets Adobe doesn’t want you to know…”

    • @jackgenewtf
      @jackgenewtf 8 місяців тому +1

      He got you to click though...

    • @RobertReynolds-k8s
      @RobertReynolds-k8s 8 місяців тому

      @@jackgenewtf nah just came to comment.

    • @dumblicker7024
      @dumblicker7024 8 місяців тому

      ​@@RobertReynolds-k8s you commenting got him a view tho😅

  • @srinivasaniyengar3433
    @srinivasaniyengar3433 Рік тому

    I don't see this happening. When I subtract the sky from the sky in my picture, it subtracted the mountain tops as well, so there was no advantage.

  • @PaulAmicucci
    @PaulAmicucci Рік тому

    Whta the hell - that's is brilliant, curious why this works.

  • @gashead2
    @gashead2 Рік тому

    Can’t get this to work for me

  • @philmtx3fr
    @philmtx3fr Рік тому

    It s just brilliant !! But at the same time it seems really that lightroom AI is not so clever and even bugged. When you see what Luminar can do for replacing the skies it just shows the way of improvement Adobe gets on this area. But with their lucrative monthly redevenue I am sure they will have the budget to improve that. But in the mean time thx for your tricks !!

  • @PracticingPhotography
    @PracticingPhotography Рік тому

    Sweeeeeet

  • @karayuschij
    @karayuschij Місяць тому

    Nice trick, but unfortunately it does not work well if you have trees.

  • @TomatenDK
    @TomatenDK 8 місяців тому

    invert, select, invert, subtract, re-select, invert etc etc etc etc
    Waaaayyy too complicated video for us beginners :O

  • @Eigil_Skovgaard
    @Eigil_Skovgaard Рік тому +1

    The AI Whisperer Channel? Well hacked and demonstrated.