Right now we're going to look at the brand new masking inside of Lightroom and Camera
Raw.
So here we are in Lightroom classic.
It doesn't matter if you're in here or if you're in Camera Raw, it works exactly the
same.
So all your adjustments that used to be be kind of here as separate ones.
That's the brush, the gradient, and of course, the radio all live now under the Mask menu.
So if we click the mask, you have the ability to add the brush, the linear and the radiant.
So these are the tools you've used before and in arrange masking is here.
But there's two new ones here.
We've got Select Sky and Select Subject.
So why don't we choose Select Subject and we're going to click and notice immediately.
We get our truck here is now selected, and we can see this mask panel pops open.
Now you can take this mask panel if you want, you can dock it just by dragging or you can
drag it to the side.
Now we have the ability to do a number of different things.
This is telling us here.
Okay, there's a mask.
We selected the subject.
Now, if we wanted to inverse this mask, we could also do that.
We click the little button here and choose invert.
Now everything is going to be selected except for the subject.
Now, if the mask is not perfect, which it isn't here, notice, we need to do a little
bit of cleaning up.
So what we can do is we can choose Add and then we're going to grab the brush.
So now we've added our brush and notice our brush works the same as it did before.
And I'm just going to now paint in here to select these areas that I want to add to my
painting.
Now you could choose the auto mask if you wanted, and make sure that it detects those
edges and some areas that got missed that shouldn't have been in there.
I'm going to hit the alt of the option key and notice normally you would just take that
away, but it's not going to work that way.
Now what we need to do is go back to our subject here, and this time we're going to choose
subtract and we're going to grab our brush and there's a brush here.
And now we can subtract that from the selection.
So Add will add to that selection, and subtract obviously, is going to take away.
So what we're doing is just kind of refining that selection.
Select Subject got it most of the way there, but wasn't quite what I wanted.
I don't want to select that.
I just want to select the light.
There we go.
Let's select that light and in the shadow here.
And of course, we want to grab the tire.
So if we want to hide this mask, we can do that.
We just turn off the overlay.
And now maybe we want to darken the background.
So watch this.
We can adjust this and just that background is going to be adjusted.
So let's just pull it down a little bit.
We're going to recover the highlights there.
We're basically recovering those highlights because they were just very overexposed.
Great.
So now if we want to see the overlays again, we turn it on.
And I want to create a new mask.
Now I want to do a gradient.
So let's create a new mask and we're going to choose a linear gradient.
So I'm going to drag this gradient and maybe I want it to go the other way.
So let's just drag it the other way instead.
So what we want to do is just elongate it and just drag it up the top here.
So what we're doing is we're starting to apply some of the sky here.
Let me go really heavy on this.
We're not going to go this heavy, but I just want you to see how it's going everywhere,
but I don't want it to go into the truck.
Okay.
So in the past, we would use range masking, or we would brush this out.
So let's just make sure we select our mask here.
And what I want to do is I want to subtract.
So I'm going to choose subtract.
And why don't we select subject.
So now it's going to select that subject and notice that it's extracting it from or removing
it from our adjustment.
So let's go to our exposure and bring it down where we really would just a little bit like,
maybe there and you can see how that edge there is being protected.
Now, a few little areas that you want to touch up, like maybe you wanted to darken in here
a little bit through the glass.
We could also do this.
What we would do is just create a new mask.
In this case, just grab a brush, set it to auto mask, and let's just paint inside that
window.
There we go.
And maybe even this area back here.
Let's select that, too.
There we go.
And what we're going to do is just turn off the show overlay and then just take the exposure,
wind it back a little bit and see how we can just kind of match that there.
So there's a lot of different things we can do with the panel.
As you see here.
When we create the mask, we get each mask.
And as we click on the other mask, it contracts it.
See, as we do that, we'll expand our mask and show all the layers in there, and it will
hide the other two.
What I want to do is we're going to create a mask.
So we're going to grab a new mask and let's do a radial adjustment just so I can show
you how this works.
We're going to grab this radial adjustment.
And what I want to do now is I want to just do some adjustments in here.
So why don't we hide the overlay for a second and I'm just going to pump up the exposure
just a little bit just to kind of brighten it and then give it warm it up a little bit.
Now notice it's also affecting the background.
So what I would want to do is I would want to intersect this.
So that means I could select the subject only and then have it intersect with the radio.
So it's not going to adjust the whole subject, but just the area where I put this radio.
Let me show you.
So what we're going to do with this is we're just going to choose to intersect mask with
and let's do a select subject detecting the subject and look at that.
So if we look at this now and we go under a radio gradient, look at this.
Notice how now it's only affecting where that radial area is, but only on the subject and
the way that's working is because we've got our radio and we've intersected it so you
can see how all the different masking and everything kind of works together inside of
here.
And remember, this is the same in Lightroom as it is in camera raw.
So I'm curious, what do you guys think?
Let me know in the comments underneath.
I know you might have to watch this video a few times to really grasp it, because there's
a lot there, but I don't want to make it a super long video.
I'm sure I'll do more tutorials on that in the future.
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