- [Glyn] Hi, I'm Glyn Dewis, and in this video
I don't have a technique, but I do have a really handy tip
for you that's gonna help you get a lot more control
when using Layer Masks.
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This video carries on from one that I recorded earlier,
which is where I showed you how to colourize your images
using Lookup Tables.
To show you this tip with a Layer Mask, I first of all
need to remove a few of these layers here to get us
to the stage in the retouching where we're now going
to colourize our image.
Just as a quick refresher, we're gonna do that using
Lookup Tables.
I'll just show you that recipe again, just as a reminder.
I'm gonna add a Lookup Table adjustment layer.
The first one I'm going to use for this particular recipe
I have on these World War Two Home Guard images
is to choose tension green, and I take the opacity
down to 30%.
Then I add a second Lookup Table adjustment.
We're gonna use edgy amber.
Take the opacity down to 20%.
Then the final third one, which is where I'm gonna to add
a Lookup Table called foggy night, and take that down
to 20%.
I also want to de-saturate this image slightly.
I'm going to use a gradient map to do that.
So I'm going to press D on my keyboard to set my foreground
and background colour to their default of black and white.
Then I'm gonna come up to the top right-hand corner here
where the adjustment layers are, and choose the gradient
map adjustment.
That gives me a pretty good out-of-the-box black and white,
but I'm gonna take the opacity of that down to 20% as well.
This is the look that I'm after.
All these adjustments here, I'm gonna keep nice and tidy
in a group.
So with the uppermost one selected, I'm gonna hold down
my shift key, click on the very first adjustment layer,
then go up to the fly-out menu at the top right-hand corner
of the layers panel, choose new group from layers
and call it L-U-T, for Lookup Table and click Okay.
Now I really do like the look that I'm able to get
with these Lookup Tables here.
This vintage kind of look to these pictures really adds
to the mood, but what I don't like is what it actually does
to the skin.
It does add a little bit too much of that green
into the skin tone there.
So I need to remove that.
Ordinarily, you might think of doing this by simply
adding a Layer Mask, then getting a brush
with a black foreground colour.
Let's just say that I want to reduce this green
in the skin tones here, maybe by about half.
So we've got 50% of the actual colourizing we've just done
and also 50% of the original skin tone showing through.
In my brush, black foreground colour, opacity there
we'll change to 50% up in the options there, for the brush.
Then I'll simply come in and start painting away
over the skin here to remove 50% of that look.
Now, the problem with this is, as we paint around here,
if you lift off and press down and then continue painting,
what you're actually doing is painting
in different opacities over the skin.
So you're not actually getting 50% of the actual colourizing
being removed.
You're actually getting more in some places.
To show you that, I'm just gonna click over
to the Layer Mask here.
If I hold down my option key on Mac or alt key on PC,
then click on the Layer Mask itself, you'll see here
basically, what I've done.
By me painting with this brush, a reduce opacity of 50%,
I've reduced the actual effect of the colour Lookup Tables
there and the de-saturating.
But as I lifted of and pressed down,
each time it builds up the opacity.
So it's not giving me an even 50% removal across the skin.
So, how do I actually get it to be
an even 50% reduction there?
Well, let's just go back to the normal view.
What I'm going to do is first of all remove the Layer Mask.
So we'll drag it down to the Trash can,
and then click delete.
To remove it, what I'm going to do is this.
I am going to add a Layer Mask.
I am also going to get a brush
with a black foreground colour.
But instead of reducing the opacity of the brush
up in the options here to 50%, I'm gonna paint
with the brush at 100% opacity.
Then all I'm going to do is come in and paint over the face
as you can see here now, as I paint over,
we're actually bringing back the original skin tone here.
Because we've also colourized this image,
it's actually making the face look really, really pink
and kinda strange, but this is the original skin tone.
So if I just paint up here, just to remove it all.
You might remember from an earlier video,
to see how we actually paint and see if we've missed
any area, we can press that backslash key, so let's just
quickly do that there.
Just missed a little bit, oops.
Just miss a little bit up here.
And maybe a little bit on the ear, like so.
Press that backslash key to go back to the normal view.
Obviously, because we've colourized the image,
to take the skin back to its original skin tone
does look a little bit strange.
So like I said before, I wanna only reduce that colourizing,
that green on the skin, by around about 50%.
Here's how I can do it really evenly.
Over in the layers panel here, we've got these Lookup Tables
all in a group with a Layer Mask.
I'm then gonna click to open up the properties
of the Layer Mask.
In here, we actually have a slider called density.
What I'm gonna do, at the moment it shown as being at 100%.
I'm gonna drag this slider all the across to around about,
let's have a look here,
'round about 50%, something like that.
49, 50 percent.
So now, if you keep an eye on the skin here,
this guy, Home Guard's face, if I turned that on,
and off, there's the actual green
which is a little bit too much.
And here now, it is reduced at 50%.
Let me also show you the Layer Mask here,
so you can see what I mean.
If I hold again down the option key on Mac, alt key on PC,
click on that Layer Mask, you'll now see
you've got a very nice, even 50% grey, which means
we've reduced it by 50% across the whole of the face,
no more, no less.
We've got a very even skin tone.
Like I said, just a very, very quick tip there,
just showing you how I can get much more out of using
Layer Mask, gives you a heck of a lot more control.
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