First time I watched this a number of months ago it was way over my head. Now that I have watched your courses on exposure blending and dodging/burning I feel like I could now do this to one of my images and I can grasp the concept. Thank you!
Excellent tutorial on solving a tough editing problem. My screen went totally black on a couple of parts. The first black-out coming around 2:05 into the video and lasting about 10 seconds.
Greg - this is one of the best explanations (in a practical, step-by-step way) of EXACTLY how the luminosity mask can be used to correct highly complex problems. The shadow of the tripod problem is a great example - well done!
Hi Greg, I feel the same way as Corey. Since 2017, my knowledge of the Photoshop and the Lumienza panel has increased. I recently took a shot where I had this same scenario; in my case it was casting my own shadow on the scene. Playing around with the panel, I tackled it using a frequency separation technique and in my case it worked like a charm.
This is one of those videos I’ve seen 100 times but always at wrong time. I can never watch the whole thing. Ha ha. I’ll get to it. Very interesting and so useful for a multitude of things.
One of the best tutorials on luminosity masks that i have seen to date. Too good that it made me create a youtube account so i could post this comment and subscribe. You're too generous! I also bought lumenzia few weeks ago! Greetings from Australia.
You bet. Certainly can’t fix everything, but even than can be great for either getting to a better starting point for cloning, or can use similar approach to make a custom selection to help guide cloning.
I really love your channel!!! the content is so amazing, one better trick than the other! Never had the idea to use a lum. mask in combination with a curve, its so easy and looks very good! One other aspect, I guess you will know this, but to be sure: you could also customize the mask after the steps you showed in the video with the brush. Blending mode screen, its easy to further adjust it, or even the dodge & burn tool of Photoshop, which many photographers dont know. The advantage of this in comparison to brush with screen mode is, that with the dodge tool you are able to choose if you want effect highlights midtones or shadows. greetings from Austria Lukas
Very nice, useful tutorial. Just two observations: (1) every so often a black screen appeared, which I found annoying, especially since you were still talking about part of the process, and (2) when you were quickly running through many of the standard luminosity masks (just for illustrative purposes), I noticed that there was a second lighter shadow of the tripod to the left of the one you wanted to remove, probably due to a second light source behind you?
Greg, I love your tutorials. I was just wondering why the video fades to black at certain point while your demonstrating. Example, 2:03-2:16, 2:45- 2:56, 5:06-5:14
Just saw this (UA-cam marked it as possible spam). Those black frames are a glitch. Not sure if it was during my export or something on UA-cam's end. The original video doesn't show that.
Amazing Greg! Do you think this technique can be applied to remove orange flares from a landscape image? Looking for a panel to do this easily and I think your is the best seen so far! Thanks if you can give any advice
Does Lumenzia actually add functionality beyond what photoshop is capable of? Or does it an interface that accesses several of photoshop's tools to make the job faster and easier? (and why does the screen black out occasionally?)
It uses Photoshop, but in an extensive way that would be cumbersome to impossible to replicate completely manually. Screen black out, what time point are you referring to? Many of its steps uses numerous Photoshop commands at once, so there are some brief refresh delays.
Ooooh, that must be what it was. Several times throughout the video, the screen blacked out for a brief moment....I've been driving myself mad trying to figure out how to remove or otherwise cover up some very subtle shadows from a couple of wooden stools that's being cast onto a hardwood floor. The shadows are more subtle than the ones in this video, but still quite noticeable. How well do you think lumenzia would work in a situation like that? I don't do a lot of work like this at the moment, so it would only be worth the purchase right now if it could obliterate these shadows. If I could foresee definitely needing this in the near future, I would just grab it, but it'll only be worth it to me (for now anyway) if I can be 95% certain that it'll work. Thanks!
It depends on the shadows. It works here because the difference is in color and brightness. Probably similarly effective if you have a subtle shadow. Where it probably won’t work is if there is direct sunlight, because the quality of light is different in the lit and unlit areas in a situation Iike that (hard light in the lit areas and soft light in the shadows). Plus, in an extreme shadow, the noise is different in the image.
Hi Greg - excellent tutorial....i tried this and it works great on soft shadows, however I'm having a problem with more harsh shadows. An example i can use is trying to remove shadows from an animals face when the light was brighter, and hence the shadows darker. Any suggestions?
If you are in mixed light (harsh shadows mixed with soft shadows), it is no longer a problem of just color and brightness. In that case, the quality of shadows is an issue and the complexity of repair is higher.
Hi Greg, great video and so useful. Like always. I introduced you to all my amateur photograpers friends here in Switzerland. A question: I guess this procedure doesn't work with a dark shadow on a sunny day together with a background full of rocks, grass and so on which is not that uniform like the cobblestone you have in your example. Right?
Thabks, Jürg! The requirement for this to work is that you can adjust the tone (such as with a curve) and color (perhaps by repacking it as I did here) and get to a matching result. If you can do that, then the luminosity masks allow you to apply it to the problematic areas in a precise way. There are point source lights here (especially the street light causing the tripod shadow). However, with direct sunlight, the quality and direction of lighting might be more mismatched, and that may not be correctable in the same way. At some degree of the issue, cloning and healing will probably be better techniques to use.
Late to the party I know, but I just bought and installed Lumenzia so I'm catching up. Another way to solve the shadow tone (once you've adjusted the brightness), is to use a hue/sat adjustment layer and adjust the hue.
I have a red headed granddaughter which make facial color balance a pain. Then place her in mixed shade: composition may be great but the face. I tried the above technique to decrease the leave shadow and then color pick with Lumenzia masking to make an acceptable face. So it is not just building(aka tripodes)
Hi Greg! Great tutorial! I am wondering if this method cand be used or adapted to remove horizontal banding caused by LED or neon lighting in photos taken with a electronic shutter camera. I tried a bit, but I am not so skilled as you in PS :))
Depends. Would have to see. Luminosity masks pick things that are differentiated in some way, and ultimately work with the source content (garbage in garbage out scenario).
I've tried this and found it doesn't work with my image. I think because the shadow falls over an object with complex colours. The luminosity works, but cannot correct the colour since there are many. Any video on how to deal with that?
I don’t have another video on the topic. The key lesson here to to find adjustments that would make things the same, and then you can use luminosity masks to apply those adjustments with precision.
was it just me or did others also see the screen go black every now and then? I still heard you talking @Greg and could see the text overlays, just no screen cap.
Yes. You can use it for nearly anything that might need a mask or selection. Just be sure to leave some degree of feathering (transition from black to white), as appropriate to the adjustment being made. I created a very hard mask here, but generally leave more feathering in the mask when I customize.
It doesn't work for me. I've found that if the shadow is to harsh compared to the near zone you want to imitate... you can't compensate with the curve. For example, got a shadow with value 5, and the nearest zone is 53/54.. imposible to achieve the same result.
luminosity masks are a foreign language to me. Have tried with Raya Pro but it just ruins my images. Horrible colours so I don't know what I'm doing wrong.
Hello Greg and thanks for your reply. I just want to target a particular tone or set of tones, say to adjust a sky and not the trees that cross a horizon. Or all the dark rock tones in a mountain scene and then lighten or darken them, to alter the contrast. I thought luminosity masks were a way to do that as its much more accurate rather than a brush. Can I do that with Lum Masks? This video is great by the way. I've saved it as one day I'll need it, when I can keep up with you guys. Thanks again, Mark.
HAD TO STOP watching what WOULD HAVE BEEN A Great Tutorial Greg. MOST of your screencasts are wonderful - your examples used, your explanations, your taking the TIME to show what you're doing and let it sink in to the viewer's consciousness. HOWEVER, THIS screencast SO NEEDS RE-EDITING!!! I am sure you are a busy guy; but in that these things represent "us" - someone might walk away with the wrong impression, that you are not one for paying attention to detail. (NOT TRUE, as evidence by watching other screencasts, as someone who has invested in your SPECTACULAR technology, likely one of the most sophisticated PS Extensions I have ever come across - ever.) I KNOW Numbers are A Big Deal here on utoob ("Influencer", Popularity, Relevance - all that Alphabet AI gumbo goin' on behind the curtain and all). Perhaps there is a way to get through to someone on Planet Google? See if you can KEEP your current 'views' numbers/thumbs up votes with a re-edit in Screenflow? Just sayin'... A BIG Fan of all you do otherwise Greg. mm
Hi Michael- I don't understand the feedback. What seems wrong with this edit to you here? If you mean out of date, I believe everything I did here can still be done with the latest Lumenzia. Please let me know a particular time point if you feel otherwise.
I don't often see tutorials that make me say "Wow, that was awesome", however, this is one!
Awesome, thanks!
First time I watched this a number of months ago it was way over my head. Now that I have watched your courses on exposure blending and dodging/burning I feel like I could now do this to one of my images and I can grasp the concept. Thank you!
It’s builds over time, and then things really start to click. Glad to hear you’re making a lot of progress!
Excellent tutorial on solving a tough editing problem. My screen went totally black on a couple of parts. The first black-out coming around 2:05 into the video and lasting about 10 seconds.
Greg - this is one of the best explanations (in a practical, step-by-step way) of EXACTLY how the luminosity mask can be used to correct highly complex problems. The shadow of the tripod problem is a great example - well done!
Man, this is fascinating stuff. Photoshop is such an incredible program and skill.
I finally got this. Watched it many times. Failed, tried again and again (ok with harsher shadows) but today I succeeded! Thank you!
Hi Greg, I feel the same way as Corey. Since 2017, my knowledge of the Photoshop and the Lumienza panel has increased. I recently took a shot where I had this same scenario; in my case it was casting my own shadow on the scene. Playing around with the panel, I tackled it using a frequency separation technique and in my case it worked like a charm.
Awesome tutorial of an awesome plugin! I loved this video, thank you!
My pleasure, thanks!
Greg I'm so excited that you're releasing more videos like this. This was excellent. Thanks!
This is one of those videos I’ve seen 100 times but always at wrong time. I can never watch the whole thing. Ha ha. I’ll get to it. Very interesting and so useful for a multitude of things.
Greg, this may be your best tutorial to date. Thanks for sharing. Lumenzia rocks.
Thanks, Chuck!!
One of the best tutorials on luminosity masks that i have seen to date. Too good that it made me create a youtube account so i could post this comment and subscribe. You're too generous! I also bought lumenzia few weeks ago! Greetings from Australia.
Amateur Photographer that's quite a compliment, thank you!
Your knowledge of photoshop is absolutely amazing. I just bought your panel, and hope to learn a lot and make my landscape photos better!
Awesome, thank you!
Terrific technique! Love your Lumenzia plugin. Also appreciate your tone and skills as a teacher.
Thanks very much.
Peter F Smith thank you!
Greg, that is awesome, plus now I understand how to tweak the mask
Awesome! Recently bought Lumenzia, what a gamechanger, thank you!
Bo Van De Wall Perné excellent!
Thank you Greg, this is a good tutorial and it helps to learn and explore the potential of Lumenzia. I hope there will be more tutorials coming soon.
So much pain avoided trying to play with Healing tool.... thanks Greg !
You bet. Certainly can’t fix everything, but even than can be great for either getting to a better starting point for cloning, or can use similar approach to make a custom selection to help guide cloning.
Excellent demonstration.
Thank you!
Excellent demonstration. I have lumenzia but admittedly do not harness its potential. Now that I have some down time il try and get to grips with it.
I really love your channel!!! the content is so amazing, one better trick than the other! Never had the idea to use a lum. mask in combination with a curve, its so easy and looks very good! One other aspect, I guess you will know this, but to be sure: you could also customize the mask after the steps you showed in the video with the brush. Blending mode screen, its easy to further adjust it, or even the dodge & burn tool of Photoshop, which many photographers dont know. The advantage of this in comparison to brush with screen mode is, that with the dodge tool you are able to choose if you want effect highlights midtones or shadows. greetings from Austria Lukas
😍 awesome tutorial.
Today I was trying to select sun rays in a landscape. Your video almost exactly matched what I needed. Uncanny! Thanks so much.
John Farinelli great! Would love to see the before and after, and please let me know if you have any questions.
VERY useful. I would probably have used the vanishing point tool in PS but this is so much better. Thanks.
Greg. Thanks for the tutorial. I was just wondering how to deal with a shadow from an architecture shot from last week.
That is totally amazing. Pure magic.
Thanks, Stephen.
Great tutorial - helped me to fix a similar pesky shadow problem - thanks for sharing your knowledge.
That's great!
Amazing, thank you very very much for this awesome tutorial
anyone else keep getting brief black screens on this video? Still get audio but everything goes black for a few seconds
Yes. Thank you. I thought I was going crazy. Screen repeatedly turns black but audio continues. Still, video is very useful.
Yup. Me too
Yup.
Me too, most probably some bloopers in the edit...
Very nice, useful tutorial. Just two observations: (1) every so often a black screen appeared, which I found annoying, especially since you were still talking about part of the process, and (2) when you were quickly running through many of the standard luminosity masks (just for illustrative purposes), I noticed that there was a second lighter shadow of the tripod to the left of the one you wanted to remove, probably due to a second light source behind you?
Yes, there were a few lights. To keep it simple, I just focused on the main one - but the process is the same for any secondary shadows.
super useful, thank you Greg
Very clever; great results in the end!
Great! Just used it for eliminating lens flares - easy workflow with Lumenzia and by far better result than with other techniques.
Awesome, that’s a great use!
Awesome, Thanks Greg
Very nice tutorial. Thanks for sharing.
Simply magic
Great! I was looking a solution for this problem. thank you so much.
Thanks for sharing these tips, I also love Lumenzia!
Excellent!
great video. However I experience 2 or 3 areas that go black in the video. 2:48 to 2:59 and 5:02 to 5:10 or is it just me.
Greg, I love your tutorials. I was just wondering why the video fades to black at certain point while your demonstrating. Example, 2:03-2:16, 2:45- 2:56, 5:06-5:14
Just saw this (UA-cam marked it as possible spam). Those black frames are a glitch. Not sure if it was during my export or something on UA-cam's end. The original video doesn't show that.
Amazing Greg! Do you think this technique can be applied to remove orange flares from a landscape image? Looking for a panel to do this easily and I think your is the best seen so far! Thanks if you can give any advice
Probably, would need to see what you’re dealing with.
Does Lumenzia actually add functionality beyond what photoshop is capable of? Or does it an interface that accesses several of photoshop's tools to make the job faster and easier? (and why does the screen black out occasionally?)
It uses Photoshop, but in an extensive way that would be cumbersome to impossible to replicate completely manually.
Screen black out, what time point are you referring to? Many of its steps uses numerous Photoshop commands at once, so there are some brief refresh delays.
Ooooh, that must be what it was. Several times throughout the video, the screen blacked out for a brief moment....I've been driving myself mad trying to figure out how to remove or otherwise cover up some very subtle shadows from a couple of wooden stools that's being cast onto a hardwood floor. The shadows are more subtle than the ones in this video, but still quite noticeable. How well do you think lumenzia would work in a situation like that? I don't do a lot of work like this at the moment, so it would only be worth the purchase right now if it could obliterate these shadows. If I could foresee definitely needing this in the near future, I would just grab it, but it'll only be worth it to me (for now anyway) if I can be 95% certain that it'll work. Thanks!
It depends on the shadows. It works here because the difference is in color and brightness. Probably similarly effective if you have a subtle shadow.
Where it probably won’t work is if there is direct sunlight, because the quality of light is different in the lit and unlit areas in a situation Iike that (hard light in the lit areas and soft light in the shadows). Plus, in an extreme shadow, the noise is different in the image.
Sounds like it might do the trick. Thanks very much for the information!
Hi Greg - excellent tutorial....i tried this and it works great on soft shadows, however I'm having a problem with more harsh shadows. An example i can use is trying to remove shadows from an animals face when the light was brighter, and hence the shadows darker. Any suggestions?
If you are in mixed light (harsh shadows mixed with soft shadows), it is no longer a problem of just color and brightness. In that case, the quality of shadows is an issue and the complexity of repair is higher.
amazing dude.
Hi Greg, great video and so useful. Like always. I introduced you to all my amateur photograpers friends here in Switzerland. A question: I guess this procedure doesn't work with a dark shadow on a sunny day together with a background full of rocks, grass and so on which is not that uniform like the cobblestone you have in your example. Right?
Thabks, Jürg! The requirement for this to work is that you can adjust the tone (such as with a curve) and color (perhaps by repacking it as I did here) and get to a matching result. If you can do that, then the luminosity masks allow you to apply it to the problematic areas in a precise way.
There are point source lights here (especially the street light causing the tripod shadow). However, with direct sunlight, the quality and direction of lighting might be more mismatched, and that may not be correctable in the same way. At some degree of the issue, cloning and healing will probably be better techniques to use.
Late to the party I know, but I just bought and installed Lumenzia so I'm catching up. Another way to solve the shadow tone (once you've adjusted the brightness), is to use a hue/sat adjustment layer and adjust the hue.
Definitely. Many ways to do it. The key part I wanted to show here is how to get a mask to isolate the changes to the shadow area.
I have a red headed granddaughter which make facial color balance a pain. Then place her in mixed shade: composition may be great but the face. I tried the above technique to decrease the leave shadow and then color pick with Lumenzia masking to make an acceptable face. So it is not just building(aka tripodes)
Great example. So many ways to use t.
Hi Greg! Great tutorial! I am wondering if this method cand be used or adapted to remove horizontal banding caused by LED or neon lighting in photos taken with a electronic shutter camera. I tried a bit, but I am not so skilled as you in PS :))
I’d have to see the defect
@@gregbenzphotography I'll send you an email to the contact address on your website! :)
Grazie molto. Amo Lumenzia
Brilliant, thanks :-)
Can this be used this to get rid of stains on building ?
Depends. Would have to see. Luminosity masks pick things that are differentiated in some way, and ultimately work with the source content (garbage in garbage out scenario).
Fantastic. Amazing. Thank you
I've tried this and found it doesn't work with my image. I think because the shadow falls over an object with complex colours. The luminosity works, but cannot correct the colour since there are many. Any video on how to deal with that?
I don’t have another video on the topic. The key lesson here to to find adjustments that would make things the same, and then you can use luminosity masks to apply those adjustments with precision.
This video blanks out at various spots. All I see is just a black screen. For example 5:24. Can we have a clean upload of this video?
Thanks!
Zohaib Khan I’ll see if the source is any different, may be all I have. But I don’t think the blackouts cause you to miss anything important.
Genius!!
was it just me or did others also see the screen go black every now and then? I still heard you talking @Greg and could see the text overlays, just no screen cap.
Not just you. Somehow the capture, export, or upload got corrupted and I didn't know until it was posted and linked. Sorry about that.
Greg Benz, no need to apologise!
Will this work for removing harsh light? i have a waterfall photo with some harsh light behind it but can't seem to tone it down or remove it
+RJ McBain impossible to say without seeing the image. Luminosity masks cannot repair blown highlights, unless blending exposures.
could you use this technique for correctivo dodge&burn retouching !?
Yes. You can use it for nearly anything that might need a mask or selection. Just be sure to leave some degree of feathering (transition from black to white), as appropriate to the adjustment being made. I created a very hard mask here, but generally leave more feathering in the mask when I customize.
It doesn't work for me. I've found that if the shadow is to harsh compared to the near zone you want to imitate... you can't compensate with the curve. For example, got a shadow with value 5, and the nearest zone is 53/54.. imposible to achieve the same result.
Depends on the image. Can’t use this to repair overly harsh shadows and certain other conditions.
wow
Genial!
luminosity masks are a foreign language to me. Have tried with Raya Pro but it just ruins my images. Horrible colours so I don't know what I'm doing wrong.
It’s a long process to learn. Give me a shout if you have any specific questions I might answer.
Hello Greg and thanks for your reply. I just want to target a particular tone or set of tones, say to adjust a sky and not the trees that cross a horizon. Or all the dark rock tones in a mountain scene and then lighten or darken them, to alter the contrast. I thought luminosity masks were a way to do that as its much more accurate rather than a brush. Can I do that with Lum Masks? This video is great by the way. I've saved it as one day I'll need it, when I can keep up with you guys. Thanks again, Mark.
Yes, luminosity masks tend to be very useful for that sort of work. The concepts are a bit advanced and take time to understand. Stick with it!
FYI- There are some fairly long periods of a totally black screen except for the Apple menu bar. All the while you continue talking.
Which time point?
HAD TO STOP watching what WOULD HAVE BEEN A Great Tutorial Greg. MOST of your screencasts are wonderful - your examples used, your explanations, your taking the TIME to show what you're doing and let it sink in to the viewer's consciousness. HOWEVER, THIS screencast SO NEEDS RE-EDITING!!! I am sure you are a busy guy; but in that these things represent "us" - someone might walk away with the wrong impression, that you are not one for paying attention to detail. (NOT TRUE, as evidence by watching other screencasts, as someone who has invested in your SPECTACULAR technology, likely one of the most sophisticated PS Extensions I have ever come across - ever.) I KNOW Numbers are A Big Deal here on utoob ("Influencer", Popularity, Relevance - all that Alphabet AI gumbo goin' on behind the curtain and all). Perhaps there is a way to get through to someone on Planet Google? See if you can KEEP your current 'views' numbers/thumbs up votes with a re-edit in Screenflow? Just sayin'... A BIG Fan of all you do otherwise Greg. mm
Hi Michael- I don't understand the feedback. What seems wrong with this edit to you here? If you mean out of date, I believe everything I did here can still be done with the latest Lumenzia. Please let me know a particular time point if you feel otherwise.