I tried this technique on nighttime photo, and it completely cleaned it up where there is no more silhouette in the photo. The photo looks sooo much better!! Thanks for showing this technique as it is very much appreciated!!
This was exactly what I needed, and I am going to go try it. Thanks so much not only for the good information, straightforward explanation, great clarity in your screen shot choices to supplement the directions and most of all for following theKISS principle.‼️
Well, normally, I used to edit my astrophotos in a very specific way, but with the masking recently, some details changed. The big problem now, was always the edges of the masking and I couldn't really fix it properly. Will try it right now and let you know mate. Thanks so much for the tip.
Thank you, thank you, thank you. This has been a frustration of mine. I have tried radial masks instead of subject masks sometimes. Can work on some images but not all. This is much better.
Hi Colin, exelent video as always ! I have a question about masks that I think you might be able to answer: The "white balance selector" is only available in the basis panel for for the entire image, and NOT within a mask - so how do you set the white balance within e.g. a object mask or a mask made with a brush ? E.g. I often do photos of shoes, and in the post I select the shoes with a mask to fine-tune colors, but I would realy love to have a white balance selector here - but theres isn't one ! ;-)
Fantastic Video.. Thanks for the great tip. Loved it. Subscribed your channel. Wanna learn more. Keep up the great work. Greetings from Bangalore, India.
What a simple yet beautiful tip! Thanks Colin, another day I learned something new from the menu at the Cafe. Big gratuity coming your way! 20% at least.
So you selected the subject,.you add brush for the bush, question, how do you invert both mask so i can only adjust the skies? i know you will say select the sky mask, but how do you just invert all the mask with the brush?
I can’t seem to get rid of the demarcation line around my subject even after trying this method. I’ve dbl checked the exposure isn’t high. Suggestions?
Right, the newest version of Lightroom (and PS) won’t allow you to open images in PS. The workaround I used was to open via Bridge, the save and import to LR. A pain, so I went back to the prior version. Guess we’ll have to assume Adobe will fix this in the next version. It’s a pretty significant bug.
Hi Colin, Further to my comment a couple of days ago I have been looking at purchasing the Masking Tutorial. My question is as a bird photographer I sure the same applies but what I have been able to find out is it seems pretty much non-wildlife. Can you offer any thoughts or comments please. If the content is on par with the simplicity of this video I feel sure it will be ok. Maybe I just need a nudge. Thanks again.
Thanks for the thoughtful comment. My techniques are genre agnostic. I choose examples based on what I personally have shot. It really doesn’t matter, they work on anything. If you want to send me images to work with, I’d be delighted
@@photoshopcafeI’m pretty much one dimensional with my photography, birds, birds, birds or birds. As I often shoot further away than I would like , sometimes sky backgrounds and sometimes dark bushes I usually mask the bird and lift the exposure. My biggest haloing is if I mask the subject then duplicate and invert the mask. There is no feathering across the boundary. Eliminating shadows from nearby branches also comes in to play. I will purchase the masking tutorial as it will be a concise summary of what you can see across UA-cam and I anticipate it will be done so I can even understand it.
@@photoshopcafeI am so lucky in Brisbane with over 300 varieties of birds within a 30km radius of the city. In two years I seen over 150 varieties and photographed most of them. Some jut ID shots but a couple of ok shots in there.
Hi Colin, I purchased your masking tutorial and after three videos learnt a lot. Imagine what I’ll be like be the end. Is there a mechanism to ask questions about things in the tutorial? Also I put a couple of questions on your video from about a month ago regarding monitors. Any chance of a response. Thanks.
Colin, will this also work to get rid of halos around buildings, your subject, etc. caused by sharpening or other edits when editing images? Regardless-- how did you sample that spot in the sky that you used to fix the masking issue? Being able to get rid of halos in LR would save lots of people lots of time by not having to go into Photoshop to remove halos, and would be particularly helpful for everyone who hates Photoshop because of its complexity.
@@photoshopcafe Hi, again, Colin. Thanks so much for answering one of my questions. If you look at my post again, you'll notice that I actually asked you two questions. Could you also answer my first one having to do with using your technique to get rid of halos around edges, such as buildings or lamp posts, etc. Thank you in advance.
What I'm looking for is to be able to great straight lines for a mask in Lightroom - basically like if I could use a lasso tool to create a mask. My problem is that I often want to mask a white object that against a white background. Any of the "smart" masks can't get it exact and if I use a brush I can't get the lines straight enough 🤷🏼♂️
Thanks Colin, I've got a question about masking in LR if you could cover it in your course that would be awesome. If I take a photo of a tractor in a field for example, I select the 'subject' (tractor) and refined the mask. I do my edits to the tractor and it looks great. I then auto select rhe sky mask and do my adjustments, the sky looks great. If I want ro select the background AND foreground (ie everything else in the image) how do I do that? If I only had one mask (the tractor) and selected to create a new Inverted mask that would select the background, the foreground AND the sky.....I'd love to know if there was a way to exclude an existing mask from a selection. I really hope that made sense! Thanks Colin.
@@photoshopcafe I look forward to your explanation in the upcoming series. Its really one of my areas of frustration. You make all these great adjustment masks but I struggle to isolate or combine them to best effect. Thanks Colin.
Create a new mask by selecting the subject (the tractor), then add the sky to the selection, then invert the combined mask (tractor + sky) ... this will give you everything else.
@@EdMatthewsPhoto thanks, that's what I was struggling to figure out how to do, I thought there must be a way to combine/subtract the masks you've just painstakingly created! I'll look it up. 👍
Your so awesome and learn a ton on your you tube. I'm an old film photographer and having to learn more about photoshop and light room took me screaming and gnashing of teeth lol
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I tried this technique on nighttime photo, and it completely cleaned it up where there is no more silhouette in the photo. The photo looks sooo much better!! Thanks for showing this technique as it is very much appreciated!!
This was exactly what I needed, and I am going to go try it. Thanks so much not only for the good information, straightforward explanation, great clarity in your screen shot choices to supplement the directions and most of all for following theKISS principle.‼️
Thank you. Your videos are always comprehensible and helpful.
Absolutely the best instructor on Lightroom and Photoshop anywhere. Just fantastic advice and assistance.
Thanks so much
This method of dealing with LR mask edges never occurred to me,,,so simple and effective! Thanx Colin.
I’m glad to help!
Very helpful. I had a severe halo of the foreground in a Milky Way pano. This was perfect. KISS is the best method. Thanks!
Thanks so much for the KISS take on this. Super helpful 🔥
I haven’t had the skill to fix this in the past without going into Photoshop and spending way too much time fixing. Thanks for the tips!
Glad to help
I was literally dealing with this exact masking issue with foliage and water at sunset issue yesterday. Perfect timing! Thanks so much.
glad to be on time
Well, normally, I used to edit my astrophotos in a very specific way, but with the masking recently, some details changed. The big problem now, was always the edges of the masking and I couldn't really fix it properly.
Will try it right now and let you know mate. Thanks so much for the tip.
Thank you, thank you, thank you. This has been a frustration of mine. I have tried radial masks instead of subject masks sometimes. Can work on some images but not all. This is much better.
So glad to help
Thanks
Thanks so much!!
Something I’ve always struggled with… and now a simple solution. Thanks, very helpful
You’re welcome
This tutorial was extremely helpful!! Hair or fur is the hardest item to mask.
Colin-your videos are always so informative and useful. I’ve had this situation many times. This will be helpful. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
Glad to help
Looks good. Can't wait to try very soon.
I was looking for a simple solution for this. Thank you!
I can’t tell you how much I appreciate this one😊
I'm glad!
Your tutorials are always amazing..short and straight to the point. ❤ Do you have videos on masking pets? ❤
Thanks! I don't. I really should get some pets and take lots of pix of them :)
Awesome tip Colin! Thank you! I've had trouble with those edges for as long as I can remember.
glad to help
I learn something new every time I watch your videos. Thanks!
glad to hear it
Hi Colin, exelent video as always !
I have a question about masks that I think you might be able to answer:
The "white balance selector" is only available in the basis panel for for the entire image, and NOT within a mask - so how do you set the white balance within e.g. a object mask or a mask made with a brush ?
E.g. I often do photos of shoes, and in the post I select the shoes with a mask to fine-tune colors, but I would realy love to have a white balance selector here - but theres isn't one ! ;-)
Thanks for the info! I'll definitely try it on some files I have.
thank you. been struggling with this for a while. love your style too. easy to learn and listen to,
You just solved a problem for me. Thank you.
Glad to hear it
Great tutorial, was wondering how to get around that precise issue I encountered recently.
happy to help
Thank you Colin, your tutorials are always easy to listen to and understand, keep up the good work.
thanks
Great tip and it works really well in this example. I'll have to remember this one!
You can always come back to it
Fantastic Video.. Thanks for the great tip. Loved it. Subscribed your channel. Wanna learn more. Keep up the great work. Greetings from Bangalore, India.
Oh Wow. I just edited something yesterday and said, how can I get rid of that ghosting. This vid is very helpful
What a simple yet beautiful tip! Thanks Colin, another day I learned something new from the menu at the Cafe. Big gratuity coming your way! 20% at least.
So much thanks for your ongoing support!
So you selected the subject,.you add brush for the bush, question, how do you invert both mask so i can only adjust the skies? i know you will say select the sky mask, but how do you just invert all the mask with the brush?
This will be VERY helpful! Always learning great things from you. Thank you!
Thanks so much for checking it out!
Thanks Colin. As usual, clear, concise and very helpful.
Thanks for that!
This is definitely beautiful! Thank you for your time
I’m so glad to help
This process is very helpful, thank you!!
You're welcome Sandy!
so simple and easy .... just really what i needed ..... thaks photoshopcafe
anytime, easy is refreshing, right?
Needed this yesterday....now fixed...Thank you...
I wish I was a time traveler. If you have a Time Machine, feel free to reach out!
Super helpful video. Thank you sooooo much !
Perfect - exactly what I was looking for.
Sweet! Thanks for such simple fix for the halos!
right?
Your videos are always useful. Thanks for the post.
Thanks so much
I can’t seem to get rid of the demarcation line around my subject even after trying this method. I’ve dbl checked the exposure isn’t high. Suggestions?
Thank you, Colin! Great tip!
My pleasure!
Thank you. Learned something new
Great, Great, Great! I just needed it. Thank You👋
Really useful, thank you Colin.
As always great stuff, Colin!
Thanks Rod!
Have you solved the opening of mages from LR to PS it seems to of stopped working om my Mac with the latest updates
Hmm I’ll have to test that
I went back one version of photoshop and that solved the problem.
Right, the newest version of Lightroom (and PS) won’t allow you to open images in PS. The workaround I used was to open via Bridge, the save and import to LR. A pain, so I went back to the prior version. Guess we’ll have to assume Adobe will fix this in the next version. It’s a pretty significant bug.
Another helpful video. Thanks!
thx
It worked for me! Thanks
Simple and yet very effective, thanks mister Ph CAFE
That’s super helpful, thank you!
Excellent! Thank you.
Definitely learnt something here.
What a great tip, shared with our club!!
Yeah! Awesome. Shout out to your club. Whats your club name? Feel free to share a link
Muchas gracias.
de nada
Thank you
Very useful, will try
great video. I love your channel. It is very well done and very informative
Thank you very much!
Brilliant thank you
thanks
Hi Colin,
Further to my comment a couple of days ago I have been looking at purchasing the Masking Tutorial. My question is as a bird photographer I sure the same applies but what I have been able to find out is it seems pretty much non-wildlife. Can you offer any thoughts or comments please. If the content is on par with the simplicity of this video I feel sure it will be ok. Maybe I just need a nudge. Thanks again.
Thanks for the thoughtful comment. My techniques are genre agnostic. I choose examples based on what I personally have shot. It really doesn’t matter, they work on anything. If you want to send me images to work with, I’d be delighted
I LOVE wildlife. I wish I had more opportunities to shoot more
@@photoshopcafeI’m pretty much one dimensional with my photography, birds, birds, birds or birds. As I often shoot further away than I would like , sometimes sky backgrounds and sometimes dark bushes I usually mask the bird and lift the exposure. My biggest haloing is if I mask the subject then duplicate and invert the mask. There is no feathering across the boundary. Eliminating shadows from nearby branches also comes in to play. I will purchase the masking tutorial as it will be a concise summary of what you can see across UA-cam and I anticipate it will be done so I can even understand it.
@@photoshopcafeI am so lucky in Brisbane with over 300 varieties of birds within a 30km radius of the city. In two years I seen over 150 varieties and photographed most of them. Some jut ID shots but a couple of ok shots in there.
Hi Colin, I purchased your masking tutorial and after three videos learnt a lot. Imagine what I’ll be like be the end. Is there a mechanism to ask questions about things in the tutorial? Also I put a couple of questions on your video from about a month ago regarding monitors. Any chance of a response. Thanks.
Really good info for sure..Is it just me I don't see the feather ring in ACR..
Great video Collin, cheers!
Colin, will this also work to get rid of halos around buildings, your subject, etc. caused by sharpening or other edits when editing images? Regardless-- how did you sample that spot in the sky that you used to fix the masking issue? Being able to get rid of halos in LR would save lots of people lots of time by not having to go into Photoshop to remove halos, and would be particularly helpful for everyone who hates Photoshop because of its complexity.
The brush in auto mask is constantly sampling
@@photoshopcafe Hi, again, Colin. Thanks so much for answering one of my questions. If you look at my post again, you'll notice that I actually asked you two questions. Could you also answer my first one having to do with using your technique to get rid of halos around edges, such as buildings or lamp posts, etc. Thank you in advance.
@@barrysharoff6537 I will work for halos generated by the mask. Halos generated by adjustments, could be fixed this way if they are on the mask layer.
@@photoshopcafeThank you very much. I appreciate your taking the time to answer.
Wonderful---thank you Colin!
My pleasure!
What I'm looking for is to be able to great straight lines for a mask in Lightroom - basically like if I could use a lasso tool to create a mask.
My problem is that I often want to mask a white object that against a white background. Any of the "smart" masks can't get it exact and if I use a brush I can't get the lines straight enough 🤷🏼♂️
There are some things that only photoshop can do shh. Don’t tell the Lightroom peeps. They might get jealous
Very nice video. Thank you very much!
Awesome tip!
Great! Thank you so much.
Thanks Colin, I've got a question about masking in LR if you could cover it in your course that would be awesome. If I take a photo of a tractor in a field for example, I select the 'subject' (tractor) and refined the mask. I do my edits to the tractor and it looks great. I then auto select rhe sky mask and do my adjustments, the sky looks great. If I want ro select the background AND foreground (ie everything else in the image) how do I do that? If I only had one mask (the tractor) and selected to create a new Inverted mask that would select the background, the foreground AND the sky.....I'd love to know if there was a way to exclude an existing mask from a selection. I really hope that made sense! Thanks Colin.
Yes, I will be covering this for sure! I would duplicate and invert, then subtract the sky in this case
@@photoshopcafe I look forward to your explanation in the upcoming series. Its really one of my areas of frustration. You make all these great adjustment masks but I struggle to isolate or combine them to best effect. Thanks Colin.
Create a new mask by selecting the subject (the tractor), then add the sky to the selection, then invert the combined mask (tractor + sky) ... this will give you everything else.
@@EdMatthewsPhoto thanks, that's what I was struggling to figure out how to do, I thought there must be a way to combine/subtract the masks you've just painstakingly created! I'll look it up. 👍
Very helpful, as usual, thanks.
thx
Defo useful. Thanks. Subscribed 🎉
Thanks so much. That means a lot!
really useful video!
is this also done in photoshop? with camera raw ?
Yes! Exactly identical
I've recently joined Adobe to use Photoshop where I have a monthly subscription, can I use LR also with the package ?
yes if you have the photography package, you also get web space as well
Yes, you should have the photography plan which gives you photoshop and Lightroom for $9.99 a month (US)
Thanks, I'm paying £19.97 per month@@photoshopcafe
Great vid!😃
Love your tutorials.
Thank you!
This was very helpful. Thanks
tnx again
Thanks, this something that was frustrating me.
Outstanding!
as always useful
Thanks for that colin
Anytime
heel mooi en duidelijk
Great tip
Glad it was helpful!
Awesome sir
Thanks!
Your so awesome and learn a ton on your you tube. I'm an old film photographer and having to learn more about photoshop and light room took me screaming and gnashing of teeth lol
I feel you! I’m from the film era too
When people say stay tuned till the end of the video for something, I go straight there.
This was gooder than bubble gum. Thanks so much
You’re welcome 😊
Still learning from you, Colin!
Hey man. Thanks! See you at MAX
👍🙏🙏🙏
Useless when I don't have the object selection tool
Why don't you have the object selection tool?
Absolutely, this video Like other of your videos is really very USEFUL, Thanks for your valuable TIPS.
thanks for your kind comment -Colin
You are appreciated! Thanks
Thank you too!
Great info... thanks once again.
You’re welcome
Thanks Colin. Great tip.
Very welcome
Very Helpful. Thank you!