Hi Michael, you mention in the video about a separate video you produced explaining the 'blend-if' technique for checking if any of the shadows get too dark or crushed when burning - can you point me to which video you are refering to ? thanks and amazing work by the way!
why did you hide the luminosity masks? Also, why did you create them? You could have continued painting at 20% on the transparent soft light layer over the brighter areas and the midtone. Confused.
The whole point of using Luminosity Masks is to target the dodge and burn to specific tonal areas in the image. In the case of the clouds I only wanted to darken the bright clouds and not affect the mountains. That's where Luminosity Masks come in handy. Hiding the selection is just to remove the distracting marching ants to be able to better work on the photo. That's just my workflow. cheers
I understand what luminosity masks are for, but when you painted on the transparent layer, were the luminosity masks active and hidden, and applied to the transparent layer? All you did in the video was paint directly on the mask and then hid it. I don't understand what layer the masks were applied to. Thanks so much, just trying to follow what was going on.
Hey Steve. Well I first selected a luminosity mask, then I made the selection invisible, so it wasn't distracting me (ctrl+h), and then I painted through the still active but hidden mask into the transparent layer. So the mask will then directly protext the darker areas when I paint through it. Does this clarify the workflow? cheers, Michael
Hi Michael, you mention in the video about a separate video you produced explaining the 'blend-if' technique for checking if any of the shadows get too dark or crushed when burning - can you point me to which video you are refering to ? thanks and amazing work by the way!
Its an oldie - ua-cam.com/video/9SXWjRlRAWc/v-deo.html
Excellent as always. Love the shift-control-F tip to dial in opacity.
Great video - well done. Enjoyed the insights here
whole new concept to dodge and burn WOW
Nice technique. Thanks for sharing
Thank you.
B4 to upload tutorial.... learn the basics pls
Andrea Ossola please explain
why did you hide the luminosity masks? Also, why did you create them? You could have continued painting at 20% on the transparent soft light layer over the brighter areas and the midtone. Confused.
The whole point of using Luminosity Masks is to target the dodge and burn to specific tonal areas in the image. In the case of the clouds I only wanted to darken the bright clouds and not affect the mountains. That's where Luminosity Masks come in handy.
Hiding the selection is just to remove the distracting marching ants to be able to better work on the photo. That's just my workflow.
cheers
I understand what luminosity masks are for, but when you painted on the transparent layer, were the luminosity masks active and hidden, and applied to the transparent layer? All you did in the video was paint directly on the mask and then hid it. I don't understand what layer the masks were applied to. Thanks so much, just trying to follow what was going on.
Hey Steve. Well I first selected a luminosity mask, then I made the selection invisible, so it wasn't distracting me (ctrl+h), and then I painted through the still active but hidden mask into the transparent layer. So the mask will then directly protext the darker areas when I paint through it.
Does this clarify the workflow?
cheers,
Michael
Ok, I understand what I couldn't see in the video. It is hard to tell what layer the masks were applied to. Thanks again for sharing with us.