I think that, when you click on the three dots of any specific mask you would like to invert and select the option "duplicate and invert", I've seen that it just duplicates the selection and invert it, it doesn't carry over the adjustments you made on the original mask.
Terrific video, Colin! I didn't realise how you can mix colours as if using paints on a palette (the way you achieved those orange highlights). That's a revelation for me! Congratulations on the simplicity with which you explain these concepts. Many thanks!
Extremely useful Colin, and presented in a no nonsense, easy to understand way as usual - thank you so much for helping me on my photographic journey! Your videos are among the best out there. Best wishes from the UK
Thanks for your tutorial. I discovered a very strange behavior when using the curves within masking. In a portrait photo I wanted to completely remove a very busy background. I selected the the background and changed in Curves the diagonal in a horizontal 50%L and 50% R line. The background changed in a flat middle gray. I left the mask mode and i had the portrait against nice gray background. But the strange thing was that i could not change that background anymore whatever changes I try to make in the normal mode. For instance; If I made the picture with the normal exposure-slider a full stop darker only the portrait became darker but the background stayed unaltered. In order to make that background 'active' again I had to open the picture in photoshop and saved it directly without any changes to Lightroom. The picture could now be edited as a whole.
Dude... I have watched soo many videos on using lightroom for editing and yours are always by far the easiest and the best . I thank you. I honestly think you made the image look worse but that's just my opinion. I would have changed the sky to mostly blue sky. But its irrelevant because the main thing is I'm learning a lot from your videos
Thanks, and yes, my goal was to teach, that’s why I edited it a little different for the thumbnail. If you fuss with it while teaching, the lesson becomes long and confusing
I so wanted to know the advantages of having the tone curve in the local adjustment, but could not even imagine what those advantages were. Thank you so very much for your excellent video. I appreciate your teaching style.
personally I do say: "select sky" then right away option > duplicate and inverse if I plan to change settings on both, this way I know I have proper two excluding mask that matches perfectly in case the selection is somewhat different when reselecting the sky to make a new selection like you did. not a big change but that's just my workflow
Curves are a great addition to the masks in Lightroom. That's also a very photogenic church, which I also photographed when on holiday in Kauai, the Wai'oli Hui'ia Church and Mission House in Hanalei, Kauai.
This was super helpful thank you. If you have time one day, would love to see a video using this tool on a portrait. Appreciate the explanation. Awesome.
We were not aware this new adjustment was available -- too bad the mask adjustment panels are not a different colour then we could easily recognize when Adobe adds another panel. This newest addition is VERY useful!
As for the tone curves: If I change the tone curve only over a single point, it doesn't matter whether I put the point in the shadows or highlights. The curve always bends the same when I move the point up or down. Only when I set a second point do I have the option of protecting this area and changing another tonal area.
Yeah thats been waiting for long and it makes huge , difference and flexibility , i wihing the HSL and seprate color adjustments wth the mask , da vinci has already more than that freedom on the image !!!Lightroom should add these features!!
Thank you, Colin for the very informative and helpful video; of course, you do realize that by showing me all the things I didn't know - but now do - you made my life harder because, now I will have to learn how to do them! SMS I really wonder if there is anyone in the world who truly knows all there is to know about Photoshop or Lightroom; seems to me that one could almost spend their entire lifetime devoted to its study and still now know it all. What wonderful - almost miraculous - programs. We are very lucky to live in the day and age when we can avail ourselves of them and so many other wonderful programs.
there is a formatting error in your description. "08:010 Adjusting the Intensity of the adjustment" should be: 08:10 Adjusting the Intensity of the adjustment
once you brought down the exposure and highlights of the sky (@0:45), the sky looks bit like there will be a thunderstorm (like dark grey rain clouds). is there a way to make a cloudy blue sky?
Hi Colin, I've noticed something that happens as you darken the sky in this image, and that is the top right and left of your image gets a dark patch almost like a Vignette. The same thing happens when I process photos in LRC, I get these dark patches and I then have to go in and use the content aware tool to get rid of them. I thought it was a fault with my Sigma telephoto lens, but obviously its something to do with LRC. How do you cope with this unwanted darkening at top right and left?
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I think that, when you click on the three dots of any specific mask you would like to invert and select the option "duplicate and invert", I've seen that it just duplicates the selection and invert it, it doesn't carry over the adjustments you made on the original mask.
Great tutorial and not just for the masks. You taught me a lot about the color curves in a very short video. Well done.
Thanks! Btw I have a whole course on curves on my website
At last someone who explained curves perfectly. Thank you
Well done Colin!!! Best demo on colour curves I have seen, thank you!!
Why, that you!
I’ve been using LR for years and now I am realizing that I totally missed many features with the curve module! This was very informative. Thank you!
Best 9 minutes of youtube i have watched all year. Thank you
Thanks so much!
Terrific video, Colin! I didn't realise how you can mix colours as if using paints on a palette (the way you achieved those orange highlights). That's a revelation for me! Congratulations on the simplicity with which you explain these concepts. Many thanks!
Glad it helped
Thank you so much!!! I really liked seeing the new features in practice!
Thank you for that walk through. That was so helpful. First time explained in a clear and concise way at the right pace. Thank you for posting.
Thanks, I'm glad it was helpful
Extremely useful Colin, and presented in a no nonsense, easy to understand way as usual - thank you so much for helping me on my photographic journey! Your videos are among the best out there. Best wishes from the UK
That's very cool. I've used the new tone curve in masks but never to adjust colors like that. Very useful, thank you. 😊
Awesome
Great explaining! This has become my number one tool! So easy and with so much control. Thanks!
You the man Colin! Best instructor around
Repeating what has been said already: Extremely useful!
I have always shied away from using the tone curve. This video showed me how much I was missing by not using it. Thank you very kindly.
Glad to help!
Thanks Colin yet again another great tutorial
That targeted adjustment tool - I keep forgetting to use it. Thanks for highlighting it again. Cheers.
Thanks for your tutorial. I discovered a very strange behavior when using the curves within masking. In a portrait photo I wanted to completely remove a very busy background. I selected the the background and changed in Curves the diagonal in a horizontal 50%L and 50% R line. The background changed in a flat middle gray. I left the mask mode and i had the portrait against nice gray background.
But the strange thing was that i could not change that background anymore whatever changes I try to make in the normal mode. For instance; If I made the picture with the normal exposure-slider a full stop darker only the portrait became darker but the background stayed unaltered.
In order to make that background 'active' again I had to open the picture in photoshop and saved it directly without any changes to Lightroom. The picture could now be edited as a whole.
Dude... I have watched soo many videos on using lightroom for editing and yours are always by far the easiest and the best . I thank you. I honestly think you made the image look worse but that's just my opinion. I would have changed the sky to mostly blue sky. But its irrelevant because the main thing is I'm learning a lot from your videos
Thanks, and yes, my goal was to teach, that’s why I edited it a little different for the thumbnail. If you fuss with it while teaching, the lesson becomes long and confusing
A really useful new feature. Thank you so much for taking us through its potential.
Your narrative & the graphics are Top Notch. This 10 min lesson takes a day+ to prepare. Thank you !!
Excellent tutorial! I hadn't thought of using the new curves within masks to add color to the highlights of the sky. Thanks!
I so wanted to know the advantages of having the tone curve in the local adjustment, but could not even imagine what those advantages were. Thank you so very much for your excellent video. I appreciate your teaching style.
Thankyou. I will now redo my "Train that goes nowhere" a hotel in Kruger.......you have helped mea lot.
As always simply genius explanation !
Wow - learned so much... fabulous tutorial.. can't wait to apply it...
Excellent tutorial and easy to understand, thank you
VERY helpful video. Thanks, Colin.
personally I do say: "select sky" then right away option > duplicate and inverse
if I plan to change settings on both, this way I know I have proper two excluding mask that matches perfectly in case the selection is somewhat different when reselecting the sky to make a new selection like you did.
not a big change but that's just my workflow
I knew about the new curves function on the masks, I hadn't given weight to the full potential of this function, thanks for pointing it out!!
This was a great help with the use of the curves feature in LR. I am not jumping to PS as often these days.
Didn’t even realize this came out. Thanks!!
It's crazy you guys had to wait this long for this, never even knew that LR did not have this.
Thanks again Colin, easy to understand and remember, a great instructor.
I have been waiting for this feature since I switched to Lr from Aperture 3 all those years ago. This is a great description of all its uses, too.
Curves are a great addition to the masks in Lightroom.
That's also a very photogenic church, which I also photographed when on holiday in Kauai, the Wai'oli Hui'ia Church and Mission House in Hanalei, Kauai.
Yes, its a really beautiful spot on a beautiful island!
This is great!! Thanks for introducing it.
Great video. Your content and presentation style are perfect. Thank you.
Thanks so much
Another great tutorial. Thank you!
This was super helpful thank you. If you have time one day, would love to see a video using this tool on a portrait. Appreciate the explanation. Awesome.
Great example of what the new masking curves do, Thank You 👍😎
Thanks
Very good Colin. I sort of dismissed this feature due to ignorance I suppose but not anymore. Thank you.
Well done. And you used a similar image to one I captured a year ago 😊
..explained very well........enjoyable to watch...
Thanks
Great tutorial. Thank you.
Brilliant ! Thank you.
A very good tutorial Colin; to the point , very precise and clear. Hah, wait to mess around with it👍😜
Have fun
Great tutorial, keep it coming 🤠
So didactic ... thank you ! LR is becoming very powerful with these new settings, including new color grading.
We were not aware this new adjustment was available -- too bad the mask adjustment panels are not a different colour then we could easily recognize when Adobe adds another panel. This newest addition is VERY useful!
That was really cool! Thank you!
Great video learned a lot from this.
Thanks. Great stuff as usual.
Very interesting, thanks a lot! I will put them in practice ASAP!
Glad to help
Really helpful. Thank you😊
Thanks! Very instructive! Great use of features and technique. I just subscribed. Geoff
Thanks!
Thanks Colin that helped me as I always go to photoshop and use levels.never to sure on the curves adjustment 😊😊
The curves in PS work the same way.
I have just learnt a lot in 9 minutes!
As for the tone curves: If I change the tone curve only over a single point, it doesn't matter whether I put the point in the shadows or highlights. The curve always bends the same when I move the point up or down. Only when I set a second point do I have the option of protecting this area and changing another tonal area.
This is the way
Brilliant video for someone new to LR😁👍😁
Thanks, I learned quite a lot from your presentation.
Awesome!
Really useful, thank you👍🏻
Very helpful, thank you
Nice! Thank you!
And, I know that little church in Kaua’i!
Excellent, thank you
Great video!!!
Excellent. Very clear. Thank you
Yeah thats been waiting for long and it makes huge , difference and flexibility , i wihing the HSL and seprate color adjustments wth the mask , da vinci has already more than that freedom on the image !!!Lightroom should add these features!!
Very cool, thank you. Subscribed.
Excellent thank you
If you right click on the mask and choose to duplicate and invert it also resets the adjustments 👌
Good tip
The A.I selection tool is something I wish Capture One had.
What I would love is for Adobe to allow me full use of those raw masks so I can apply certain presets to parts of the image.
Very cool, and helpful :-) Thanks
Thanks for the great video!!!!!
Anytime! Thanks
Thank you, Colin for the very informative and helpful video; of course, you do realize that by showing me all the things I didn't know - but now do - you made my life harder because, now I will have to learn how to do them! SMS
I really wonder if there is anyone in the world who truly knows all there is to know about Photoshop or Lightroom; seems to me that one could almost spend their entire lifetime devoted to its study and still now know it all.
What wonderful - almost miraculous - programs. We are very lucky to live in the day and age when we can avail ourselves of them and so many other wonderful programs.
This new feature just might get me to using curves more!!!! LOL!!!
Yay!
Thank you
Spot on 🤘
ty for the tipp :)
That's great news! But I'm still waiting for the option of color grading on masks 🙏
That would be nice. Maybe someday :)
Thanks 🙏
Thanks
So fun!!
Great! Thx.
Thanks! 😅
Is it all the same on iPad Pro ? BTW it was really helpful ❤
Can everything you did there in Lightroom, be done in Photoshop?
Brilliant 👏🏻
thx
Awesome
I'm thinking of doing a react video in response to this video you've made here.
there is a formatting error in your description.
"08:010 Adjusting the Intensity of the adjustment"
should be:
08:10 Adjusting the Intensity of the adjustment
once you brought down the exposure and highlights of the sky (@0:45), the sky looks bit like there will be a thunderstorm (like dark grey rain clouds). is there a way to make a cloudy blue sky?
Can you enable translations in the video? Thank you so much!
Where do I find that setting?
I learned a lot, however I'm an iPhone photographer and shoot in RAW which produces a DNG file. I do not see this Curves Option in LR for me.
I Want to use HSL on Masks
thanks, may I know what version is your lightroom?
12.3 Lightroom Classic. The update that just came out recently.
@@photoshopcafe thanks a lot!
I take these features will be added to camera raw?
They are already in camera raw
@@photoshopcafe My mac is two years behind, it'll be 6 months before I can upgrade to a current computer....
@@rogershore3128 You have something to look forward to them :)
Hi Colin, I've noticed something that happens as you darken the sky in this image, and that is the top right and left of your image gets a dark patch almost like a Vignette. The same thing happens when I process photos in LRC, I get these dark patches and I then have to go in and use the content aware tool to get rid of them. I thought it was a fault with my Sigma telephoto lens, but obviously its something to do with LRC. How do you cope with this unwanted darkening at top right and left?
The tampon 17mm lens gets a vignette, but it can mostly be fixed with the vignette adjustment under the lens tab
@@photoshopcafe Thanks for your reply Colin, its much appreciated as many other YTubers dont reply to you at all.
@@photoshopcafe Thanks for your reply Colin, much appreciated as many other YTubers dont reply
Anyone know how to match the exact shade of something?