Unpacking the New Masking Features in Lightroom

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Unpacking the New Masking Features in Lightroom

with Scott Kelby

lessons: 13 Course Lessons

duration: 1hr, 9min

published: 2021

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Unpacking the New Masking Features in Lightroom

with Scott Kelby

Are you ready to take your Lightroom skills to the next level? Join Scott Kelby for an in-depth exploration of the brand new Masking feature, which gives you precision control over editing your photos like never before. Learn the five key things you need to know and discover how to take advantage of the latest updates to Lightroom Classic's Metadata panel. With these powerful new tools at your fingertips, your photos will look better than ever before. Enroll now and take your Lightroom game to the next level! BUY COURSE

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lesson 1: Five Things You Need to Know (free course preview)

Scott introduces the class and discusses what will be covered in the lessons that follow.

6min, 1sec

lesson 2: Select Subject

One of the best new features of Masking is the AI-based Select Subject function.

4min, 16sec

lesson 3: Select Sky

Using the same machine learning as Select Subject, you can also build a mask automatically with Select Sky.

3min, 37sec

lesson 4: Inverting a Mask

The automatic selection tools are powerful, but they can also be inverted to select everything else except that subject or sky.

5min, 59sec

lesson 5: Adding or Subtracting

The Linear Gradient is powerful, but Adobe’s has taken it to a new level with the ability to add or subtract from it using any of the other Masking tools.

5min, 52sec

lesson 6: Color Range

The Color Range function can now be used on the entire image by itself to select a color and make a mask.

5min, 55sec

lesson 7: Luminance Range

Similar to Color Range, Luminance Range can function on its own as a way to make a mask by brightness values.

5min, 55sec

lesson 8: Brushing on a Mask

Formerly called the Adjustment Brush, now it is just called the Brush, but it works the same way.

8min, 21sec

lesson 9: What to Do When Select Subject Needs Help

Using Select Subject or Select Sky is a great way to start, but sometimes those tools need a little help from other Masking tools.

7min, 30sec

lesson 10: Skin Retouching

Using the Masking tools can make skin retouching so much easier.

5min, 21sec

lesson 11: Intersect Mask

There may be situations where you want to use the Intersect Mask function to create a new mask.

2min, 18sec

lesson 12: Masking on Mobile

Scott shows how to use the Masking tools in Lightroom for mobile.

3min, 27sec

lesson 13: Metadata Panel Updates

One last thing that snuck into this update is a revamped Metadata panel.

5min, 14sec

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Scott is the President and CEO of KelbyOne, is also the original "Photoshop Guy", is the editor and publisher of Photoshop User Magazine, Conference Technical Chair for the Photoshop World Conference, Training Director and instructor for KelbyOne Live Seminars, and author of a string of bestselling technology and photography books.

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