Bonjour Mesdames et messieurs in this video. I want to show you a really cool trick.
You know that when you do like some masking on a photo like this
and you want to darken the top of the sky and this is dark,
now the building is dark and you only want the sky to be dark.
Well, I'm going to show you three different ways to solve this right now.
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Check it out. Okay, so now here we are and we have this issue where I did a gradient,
you know, to make the top darken,
and I want to show you three different ways to deal with that.
So way number one which actually found out just this morning is kind of incredible.
It's probably the best way. No.
The best way I'm going to show you at the end, if you stay till the end,
it's something that I found this morning. It's really incredible.
So technique number one, which is what I've been doing for years is I go here.
Okay. And by the way, tell me if you like this new interface from Adobe Lightroom,
I hate it. I well, I don't like,
I don't know, is I know this new options, but I don't like it anyway,
so here is my gradient called, linear gradient one.
I'm going to substract the luminance range.
That's what I used to do back in a day and So,
what is the luminance range? Well, let me show you if you click here on.
Well, let's move this slider. You click here.
Basically, I'm telling. So I have a gradient and I'm telling Lightroom that I want to subtract.
Whatever is here in red. You see here.
Everything is selected. Everything is red. But as I go like this,
I only want the building to be red, but sometimes a selection can be a little harsh.
So you can basically Here you have a gradient basically,
which goes from here to here. So harsh,
less harsh, something like that.
And all I want is to subtract the building.
So let's show that and now you can see if I go without the linear gradient before after sorry.
Before the that sometimes we make some weird things.
So you have to be careful about that and you have to adjust accordingly until it looks kind of cool.
It's not the best but that's the Number one in some photos. it works really? Well. I'm going to create a virtual copy to show you technique.
Number two, technique. Number two is much more efficient.
And so you go, I'm go here.
I'm going to erase the luminance range, which is this.
And so I'm going to just erase it delete,
boom. So I still got my gradient here.
As you can see, you know, I got a gradient
and this time I'm going to go substract and I'm going to use a brush.
Okay, and make sure that the flow and density.
A of the brush is like in the 80s
and you can use the slider here of the middle Mouse to make your brush smaller or bigger.
And what I'm going to do, you see by default. It's got a little minus okay.
So because it's got a minus, what you can do is you can use the automatic feature,
make a big brush, and make sure the minus is on the building and not on the sky.
And by doing that, it's going to try to erase the effect at about eighty percent.
So, not completely fully. Sometimes you need to be fully,
you get some really nice Halos, which I hate.
I try to avoid halos. So you use the automask feature to do,
all around the building, just around the building on top here,
between the sky and the building. Once you've done that,
you take that out and then you can very nicely erase inside,
but make sure you don't go to the sky. Okay,
if you do check what happens, is going to make a Halo,
so you don't want that. So you have to stay inside.
Okay, so that's my technique.
A 2 and we can compare the result with,
with the see, it's got less artifacts here.
Then the luminance mask,
the luminance mask. It's got less.
You see the Luminance mask has got some weird things and here,
it's much more clean. Guys. I hope you're enjoying my videos.
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Here. We are. I go here and I'm clicking on the mask.
I'm going to erase the brush that we just did in tip number two.
Delete brush and check this out.
Now. This is something I just found out. Are you ready?
Subtract sky,
so, I'm subtracting the sky,
but we don't want that because the sky is now it's like we're back to normal,
but check it out. I go on the sky and boom invert.
And voila, now it's only affecting the sky,
which is crazy. Sometimes you just,
you can refine it by. You can add a brush.
Make sure the brush the flow and density is very low and so by adding I'm just making,
you know, a little bit dark here.
Well, not more than that. But check it out.
Check it out. If I go before the mask after the mass,
it's only influence in the sky. It's really two clicks.
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