Found this channel 2-3 months ago and got hooked on the love of photography/outdoors. Started watching from the very first video and finally caught up today. I have been meaning to get out and use my camera for something other than family photos for a while now and this channel has definitely inspired. Planning a weekend away with the misses and already found a few hikes that should result in some decent shots (even if they don't they seem like great hikes!).
Thomas what makes your channel one of the best is your field videos with follow up videos showing how you process the images you made. It completes the process for your viewers. Learning about the range mask is great tool to learn about. Thanks
as a person that always using lightroom, I definitely need this, and just realised that it can do this kind of magic. many thanks for bringing this one up, Tom!
Videos like these once in a while are really helpful, we got to watch you set up and take the image and then learn a tip for the editing. I will remember this one. The effect on the trees is fantastic. Thanks for taking the time to explain this.
I remember when these changes were announced but completely forgot they existed. Thanks Thomas for the reminder and demonstrating some good examples of their usefulness. Very helpful video :)
I mostly take images of woodland in tricky lighting conditions. At dawn, during bad weather or in the middle of the night. This will save me countless of hours of editing in the future. Time is very precious commodity as a father of three. Thank you very very much for bringing it up. If your travels takes you to my neck of the woods some day in the future ( the arctic bit of Sweden) I'd shake your hand and buy you a pint of prefered beverage.
I've just started using the technique shown in this video on a long exposure shot. Well Lawd 'Tunderin, it was absolutely brilliant when trying to deal with exceptionally bright lights on a bridge on a very black night. Without using this Luminescence Mask, I couldn't bring out details of the dark water and sky as the lights would be completely blown out. What a difference!! Thanks for bringing this to our attention....works like a charm.
Thomas....thanks for this very useful and easy to use tip. I soooooo like your level of PP. There are just so many landscape photographers that are over processing their images.....at least to my taste. It is pretty hard to out-do mother nature and when you try using a computer it falls short. One of the main reasons that I follow your channel more than most is your level of PP. Please keep it up!
Very helpful video. I twigged into the colour masking just after it came out. Did not understand how the luminosity masking worked. Extremely instructional and very beneficial. Thanks for taking the time to point this out.
Fantastic! I updated my Lightroom last week and just hadn't had time to check out the new stuff. And I had a photo that I wasn't happy with that needed this exact thing. Thank you!!!
Thanks for the tip Thomas, I already heard about it but never seen in the practice. And I love the image from the workshop with Simon, those trees are phenomenal! See you on Wednesday!
My editing skills haven't always been the absolute best. This feature is a real game changer, played around with some older files and was left with a far superior image. Great video. Great tips, thanks a tonne
A very powerful and underused tool is range masking and I am a great believer in going back to old images and doing a re -edit as I learn more and can apply more skills to an image, glad you have been up here in Scotland a bit recently, your workshop with Simon would have been brilliant I’m sure.
So far YOU taught me how to focus stack(which I use ALL the time now)...and I also now use, what I call, the "Heaton" crop (6 X 17) for my landscapes and now this! WOW! Definitely, I can see that I will be using the Range Mask!! I have the West Maui Mountains which I always have an unbalanced sky due to the sun setting behind the west side of the mountain. By the way, I think your Scotland trip was epic! Maybe your best trip? Watching your trek and what you had to deal with; well, just let me say that the images you came back with are simply BREATHTAKING! It was worth it all! Thanks so much for sharing.
You know I've been using Lightroom classic all this time despite there being a new Lightroom CC - glad to see I am not the only one still using the old one.
A great reason to upgrade from my old Lightroom 5.7! Thanks for a brilliant LR lesson. I like the new video format with the images screened again at the end too. All good stuff. Thank you.
I agree, very useful tool, I use it all the time. I have not used the Colour mask either, but I have a sunset where the pink is over saturated, so It could be useful on that image
loved seeing the mountain image again as its amazing how your eye picks out some different detail. This time its the peak in the top left hand corner after you applied the range mask. To me it just seemed to pop more and accentuated the morning sun striking its side
I’d heard of it but thought it was going to be something more complicated. Thanks for demonstrating how simple it is, and how effective. Right, I can think of an image or two that now need attention
It is very similar to the HSL secondary in premiere pro.. I came across this feature today but I didn't know quite well how to use it, now i know, thanks Tommy 👍
Thank you thank you thank you! I have come up with this certain situation plenty of times and now thanks to you I have another tool in my pocket to help me deal with it!
This is a lifesaver tip! I haven’t heard of it before. I’m curious to see how long people stick with LR Classic. I held out for a long time, but switched to CC late last year, and have actually come to prefer it (especially how it integrates with mobile).
I've used this before when darkening skies above tree lines but I've never thought of using it to lift shadows. Thanks for the tip, I'll definitely be using it more.
Thanks Thomas, I've had a lot of problems with graduated filters in LR as they were just a blanket fix. Now its possible for me to selectively reduce the filter where it's not needed is perfect!
I knew from your intro that you were going to discuss range masking. It's brilliant! I don't know if the luminosity mask works as well as Photoshop's layered process, but it's a helluva lot easier to learn. Range masks work with the brush tool, too.
Thanks, Thomas. Very helpful! I often use gradient filters in LR but always struggle when shooting mountains where the horizon is not a straight line. This will be a big help.
Brilliant. I've been struggling with brightening trees without effecting the sky for ages. It's a real pain trying to paint between the branches but this tool looks excellent.
Thanks for that Thomas. I'd seen the section in LR for it but never ventured into it. Now that you've explained it so well I can see me making good use of it.
This is also very useful when you have used a graduated ND filter on camera and something (like some tree branches) intrudes into the filter area, which is sometimes unavoidable. Makes it easy to correct in post.
The first image actually looked fantastic in black and white when you were applying that mask. Very dreamy and interesting, I prefer it to the colour version. I'm sure you cold've made it even better by making a dedicated B&W edit and playing with the tones a bit
as C1 user - this is a truly good tip . and a reason to watch how all roads may lead to Rome if one has a good map. I never thought about using luma for balancing out "horizontal" polafilter-like artifacts. Edit - stupidity is to blame the tool when one already got it but did not know enough to utilize it. I am saying this as one who used to take images BW for a decade when growing up - and being fooled by color contrast every single time. To the extent that now with digital I tend to "see" color contrast far harder than tonal contrast ending up with pushing saturation rather than luma to make an impact. This brief lesson made me remember that luma is something that works with BW - color-.contrast is implying the color wheel. I must remember both to balance or "pop" what I try to do.
I wasn’t aware of this feature either. What would also be useful would be a brush that could be used to selectively “switch off” parts of the gradient filter. That would be useful around mountain peaks (as in the example), buildings and the like.
Well I am now thinking about the many images I can apply this to. Thanks for the tip Tom, I never even knew this was a feature of Lightroom, never heard anyone speak of it. Great video 😲
Thanks Thomas I didn't know about this and have always hated the effect of the radial filter encroaching on areas where it was not wanted, enjoy your channel thank you.
Thanks so much for this, perfectly timed! I was out taking sunrise photos yesterday and the sky wasn’t as I hoped it would (cloud on the horizon blocking the sun). Looking at my images I had a pretty boring sky to the right, and on the left a dark cliff coming down diagonally from the corner. I was disappointed and couldn’t work out how to improve the sky using a graduated filter effect without darkening the cliffs...now I know! Perfect :)
I don’t use Lightroom , but Capture One also has this feature and I didn’t think of using it in this way. So thanks for the tip that ranges further than just Lightroom
Amazing i did not know of this, there have been times I've been racking my brain trying to get around things like this and now i know how its done. Thank you Thomas i will be going back to a few of my images and applying this technique.
Second photography is very beautiful. I like composition, trees, mountains and such a dramatic sky that gives the charm to the whole. Very informative also. Thank you so much for the video Thomas and I am already waiting for Wednesday :) Wish you all the best!
Hi Thomas, I only just discovered your channel and I’m loving how much I’m learning about composition and actual photography. Congrats on a great product. Chris
Found this channel 2-3 months ago and got hooked on the love of photography/outdoors. Started watching from the very first video and finally caught up today. I have been meaning to get out and use my camera for something other than family photos for a while now and this channel has definitely inspired. Planning a weekend away with the misses and already found a few hikes that should result in some decent shots (even if they don't they seem like great hikes!).
Thomas what makes your channel one of the best is your field videos with follow up videos showing how you process the images you made. It completes the process for your viewers. Learning about the range mask is great tool to learn about. Thanks
I’ll put my hand up.... I didn’t know this! Brilliant... now I’m off to re-edit 100 images 👏🏻
Right? So cool.
I have the software but don't have any good images yet, still just play around with it.
@@jxmai7687 You should get outside and take pictures instead xD
Hahaha me too
as a person that always using lightroom, I definitely need this, and just realised that it can do this kind of magic. many thanks for bringing this one up, Tom!
Videos like these once in a while are really helpful, we got to watch you set up and take the image and then learn a tip for the editing. I will remember this one. The effect on the trees is fantastic. Thanks for taking the time to explain this.
I remember when these changes were announced but completely forgot they existed. Thanks Thomas for the reminder and demonstrating some good examples of their usefulness. Very helpful video :)
I mostly take images of woodland in tricky lighting conditions. At dawn, during bad weather or in the middle of the night. This will save me countless of hours of editing in the future. Time is very precious commodity as a father of three. Thank you very very much for bringing it up. If your travels takes you to my neck of the woods some day in the future ( the arctic bit of Sweden) I'd shake your hand and buy you a pint of prefered beverage.
My god, the amount of times I could’ve used this! Great tip!
Learn something new everyday! I had never used this feature in Lightroom before but will definitely give it a go when needed on future images.
Thank you! I had no idea and have spent so much time going back and forth and trying to erase out adjustments and not make it look crazy cartoonish.
I've just started using the technique shown in this video on a long exposure shot. Well Lawd 'Tunderin, it was absolutely brilliant when trying to deal with exceptionally bright lights on a bridge on a very black night. Without using this Luminescence Mask, I couldn't bring out details of the dark water and sky as the lights would be completely blown out. What a difference!! Thanks for bringing this to our attention....works like a charm.
Thomas....thanks for this very useful and easy to use tip. I soooooo like your level of PP. There are just so many landscape photographers that are over processing their images.....at least to my taste. It is pretty hard to out-do mother nature and when you try using a computer it falls short. One of the main reasons that I follow your channel more than most is your level of PP. Please keep it up!
Very helpful video. I twigged into the colour masking just after it came out. Did not understand how the luminosity masking worked. Extremely instructional and very beneficial. Thanks for taking the time to point this out.
Fantastic! I updated my Lightroom last week and just hadn't had time to check out the new stuff. And I had a photo that I wasn't happy with that needed this exact thing. Thank you!!!
Brilliant tip Thomas. I too use this tool as its like a dodging and burning.
OMG! That woodland shot is incredible!
Thanks for the tip Thomas, I already heard about it but never seen in the practice. And I love the image from the workshop with Simon, those trees are phenomenal! See you on Wednesday!
That's an excellent hint! I am extensively using Lightroom and wonder how could I overlooked it 😱
My editing skills haven't always been the absolute best. This feature is a real game changer, played around with some older files and was left with a far superior image.
Great video. Great tips, thanks a tonne
A very powerful and underused tool is range masking and I am a great believer in going back to old images and doing a re -edit as I learn more and can apply more skills to an image, glad you have been up here in Scotland a bit recently, your workshop with Simon would have been brilliant I’m sure.
This is awesome! I've been setting my filters and going back in and erasing the areas where it wasn't needed. This will save so much time.
So far YOU taught me how to focus stack(which I use ALL the time now)...and I also now use, what I call, the "Heaton" crop (6 X 17) for my landscapes and now this! WOW! Definitely, I can see that I will be using the Range Mask!! I have the West Maui Mountains which I always have an unbalanced sky due to the sun setting behind the west side of the mountain.
By the way, I think your Scotland trip was epic! Maybe your best trip? Watching your trek and what you had to deal with; well, just let me say that the images you came back with are simply BREATHTAKING! It was worth it all! Thanks so much for sharing.
You know I've been using Lightroom classic all this time despite there being a new Lightroom CC - glad to see I am not the only one still using the old one.
Wow! I love taking photo´s of mountains, so this is soooooo helpful! Thanks Thomas!
Thank you so much. I'm still learning and this tip has been more helpful than you know. I can't wait to start using the range mask feature.
A great reason to upgrade from my old Lightroom 5.7! Thanks for a brilliant LR lesson. I like the new video format with the images screened again at the end too. All good stuff. Thank you.
The colour option is very useful too.
Yeah, I thought this, but I haven't yet had an opportunity to use it. I'm sure I will soon enough 👍
I saw this feature but had no idea how to use it. thanks for sharing this. I'll go back through some of my shots and see where i can re-edit
I agree, very useful tool, I use it all the time. I have not used the Colour mask either, but I have a sunset where the pink is over saturated, so It could be useful on that image
loved seeing the mountain image again as its amazing how your eye picks out some different detail. This time its the peak in the top left hand corner after you applied the range mask. To me it just seemed to pop more and accentuated the morning sun striking its side
Thank you Thomas. I didn't know how to use that tool and now I can see how powerful it can be. Thanks mate
Had only used the colour mask but going to give this a try on my older photos too, thanks Thomas
I’d heard of it but thought it was going to be something more complicated. Thanks for demonstrating how simple it is, and how effective. Right, I can think of an image or two that now need attention
It is very similar to the HSL secondary in premiere pro.. I came across this feature today but I didn't know quite well how to use it, now i know, thanks Tommy 👍
Thank you thank you thank you! I have come up with this certain situation plenty of times and now thanks to you I have another tool in my pocket to help me deal with it!
This is a lifesaver tip! I haven’t heard of it before.
I’m curious to see how long people stick with LR Classic. I held out for a long time, but switched to CC late last year, and have actually come to prefer it (especially how it integrates with mobile).
I was not aware of range masking. So I opened LR and tried it out and it is wonderful. Thank you!
I knew the range mask was in LR, but didn't know what it was for. Now I know and will give it a spin when called for. Thanks Thomas.
I've used this before when darkening skies above tree lines but I've never thought of using it to lift shadows. Thanks for the tip, I'll definitely be using it more.
Thanks Thomas, I've had a lot of problems with graduated filters in LR as they were just a blanket fix. Now its possible for me to selectively reduce the filter where it's not needed is perfect!
I knew from your intro that you were going to discuss range masking. It's brilliant! I don't know if the luminosity mask works as well as Photoshop's layered process, but it's a helluva lot easier to learn. Range masks work with the brush tool, too.
Thank you Thomas.....gonna have to watch that one again, while I have an image on the other screen. Again, appreciate the insight.
Thank you so much!!! I had no idea about this... this will 100% change the way i edit... that eliminates alot of erasing!!!
Thanks for the tip. I’d wondered about that feature but hadn’t used it yet. Now I will when needed.
Thanks, Thomas. Very helpful! I often use gradient filters in LR but always struggle when shooting mountains where the horizon is not a straight line. This will be a big help.
Thanks, was aware of the feature but didn't properly understand it. That's this evening sorted having a go with some images. Thanks for the good work.
Brilliant. I've been struggling with brightening trees without effecting the sky for ages. It's a real pain trying to paint between the branches but this tool looks excellent.
This is the best explanation I saw up to this time. Simple, direct, elegant. Thanks
This is very life changing to some of my older photos that I couldn’t mask well
Brilliant, so simple and effective. I’ve been aware of this but avoided it. Until now. Thanks Thomas
this is the most valuable LR video tutorial I've seen . Thanks man!
Thanks for that Thomas. I'd seen the section in LR for it but never ventured into it. Now that you've explained it so well I can see me making good use of it.
This is also very useful when you have used a graduated ND filter on camera and something (like some tree branches) intrudes into the filter area, which is sometimes unavoidable. Makes it easy to correct in post.
Been using LR for years and it's now obvious I have more to learn. Excellent tutorial Thomas, thanks.
Very useful tip!! I used to mask it manually. This would save lots of work. Many thanks!
Great video Thomas. Thank you very much. I tried it on one image from yesterday’s walk and it changed it so much.
Fantastic! I've been wondering how to employ something like this but never knew where to look. Thanks Thomas!
Thank you. Well done. Always appreciative of your info, and your presentation style.
This tip comes at the perfect time. I need this technique for one of my current images.
Thank you. Never used it before. Will try it.
OMG!.. I didn't know about this feature, used to do all this manually. Thank you so much, Thomas
The first image actually looked fantastic in black and white when you were applying that mask. Very dreamy and interesting, I prefer it to the colour version. I'm sure you cold've made it even better by making a dedicated B&W edit and playing with the tones a bit
Denis Levchenko I know right?
And then you can print it in a long range media like platinum, really create something special.
It has a more 3D quality in B&W and makes more sense
John Smith absolutely
as C1 user - this is a truly good tip . and a reason to watch how all roads may lead to Rome if one has a good map. I never thought about using luma for balancing out "horizontal" polafilter-like artifacts.
Edit - stupidity is to blame the tool when one already got it but did not know enough to utilize it.
I am saying this as one who used to take images BW for a decade when growing up - and being fooled by color contrast every single time. To the extent that now with digital I tend to "see" color contrast far harder than tonal contrast ending up with pushing saturation rather than luma to make an impact.
This brief lesson made me remember that luma is something that works with BW - color-.contrast is implying the color wheel. I must remember both to balance or "pop" what I try to do.
I wasn’t aware of this feature either. What would also be useful would be a brush that could be used to selectively “switch off” parts of the gradient filter. That would be useful around mountain peaks (as in the example), buildings and the like.
This is the single most useful tip I've got off UA-cam LR vids. I had no idea 👍👍👍
Oh my god that’s amazing! Thanks for sharing this tips! I spend so much time messing up with the brush previously when applying Graduated filters!
I have been using this for a couple of months now and it's amazing. Great vid Tom
Yeah, it does make a big difference 👍
Finally, thanks for sharing the info, I've heard the term, hadn't taken the time to look into it, but it might be my savor in my wildlife images
Excellent. I remember seeing a tutorial on this before, but had forgotten to use it for the reasons you demonstrated. Thanks, Thomas!
Another nugget from Mr Heaton. Thank you...
Gracias Mr. Thomas Heaton! Just used it.
I knew you'll speak about range mask in the moment I've read the title. Great demonstration)
One of the best tools ever that almost no one using.
This is EXACTLY what I have been looking for. Thanks for pointing it out.
Well I am now thinking about the many images I can apply this to. Thanks for the tip Tom, I never even knew this was a feature of Lightroom, never heard anyone speak of it. Great video 😲
Thanks Thomas I didn't know about this and have always hated the effect of the radial filter encroaching on areas where it was not wanted, enjoy your channel thank you.
Agree sir...fantastic tool. Tried as you were speaking and wow. Crazy...lol
Thanks for the extremely handy tip, Tom.
Thanks so much for this, perfectly timed! I was out taking sunrise photos yesterday and the sky wasn’t as I hoped it would (cloud on the horizon blocking the sun). Looking at my images I had a pretty boring sky to the right, and on the left a dark cliff coming down diagonally from the corner. I was disappointed and couldn’t work out how to improve the sky using a graduated filter effect without darkening the cliffs...now I know! Perfect :)
Thanks for sharing this! I've got some new photos I want to try this on.
Great video! Did not know this, only basic radial filter. Drag and use the erase tool.
Thanks Tom! Didn't know that feature existed! Awesome for quicker tuning of images!
I don’t use Lightroom , but Capture One also has this feature and I didn’t think of using it in this way. So thanks for the tip that ranges further than just Lightroom
I did not know about this feature at all and I use lightroom all the time - thank you so much for sharing this Thomas! 😊
That's good to hear. I hoped a few people wouldn't know about this.
Oh man you're killing me! How on earth did I not know about this?! This is awesome - thanks Thomas.
Brilliant! Great tool, great tutorial. Thanks, Thomas
Amazing i did not know of this, there have been times I've been racking my brain trying to get around things like this and now i know how its done. Thank you Thomas i will be going back to a few of my images and applying this technique.
Thanks for the tip! I didn't know Lightroom could do this. Opens up new possibilities.
Awesome tip. I have never used that before, and didn't even really know what is for. But definitely need to incorporate it into my editing toolbox.
Thank you so much. Didn't knew about it. This is the life changer
This is an absolute game changer! How did I not know about this before!!?
Yep, my hand too... thank you for this!
I had a genuine jar-drop moment when you upped that range slider 🤯
Great tip! I didnt know it. I could have used this so many times on my landscape shots. Thanks!!
Super, thank you. Didn't know about this one and certainly looks very practical.
I had no idea, that this is a thing! Thank you Thomas. This could be huge for so many of my images!
Second photography is very beautiful. I like composition, trees, mountains and such a dramatic sky that gives the charm to the whole. Very informative also. Thank you so much for the video Thomas and I am already waiting for Wednesday :)
Wish you all the best!
"I'll just increase the smoothness". - Thomas Heaton
thanks for sharing this tip!
Hi Thomas, I only just discovered your channel and I’m loving how much I’m learning about composition and actual photography. Congrats on a great product. Chris
Great feature, really good examples of how and when to use them.
Many thanks Thomas, i wasn't aware of this great feature!