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What is up people, Dunna here
and today we're gonna be taking a look at
editing some landscape photos inside
Adobe Lightroom and specifically using the range mask.
Now a little warning.
The pictures we're about to take a look at
have snow in them
and they will remind you of winter
so if you're not over fall yet
and if this is gonna be triggering for you,
I will leave a link to another video up there
that you can go check out that's all about fall.
All right, let's get into it.
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All right, let's hop into Lightroom
and the first thing that we'll see
is that I have two photos here.
I've got one that is looking straight
out over Lake Louise with some of the rocks
in the foreground
and then the other one that I have
is actually looking at the Fairmont
Chateau Lake Louise sign
with the mountain in the background.
Last week I posted both of these photos on my Instagram
so if you're not following me over there
and you like these photos,
make sure to head over and give me a follow.
Now what I wanna talk about today
isn't necessarily every step of the way
in editing this photo,
but it's one specific thing that I like to use
to take it over the finish line.
This is what the photo looked like
with just a basic edit on it
using all of the tabs that I have
over on the side.
But what you can do beyond that
are using these specific tools
up in the top right here.
Now we've got a brush tool
which means that we can brush in
specific areas and do things to it.
So for example I can crank the exposure
and then draw in the spots specifically
where I want to crank the exposure
or I can use a radial filter
which draws a circle.
This is handy for doing very specific
vignettes if you want to.
So if I wanna crank down
and just specifically highlight one spot
or I can use what's called a graduated filter
and what that does is as I drag it down,
it creates a slope between when
it's effecting the most
and when it's effecting the least.
So now you can see that the top up here,
it's making it a lot more,
right now it's de-hazed
which is bringing out a lot of that blue
and near the bottom it's not doing anything.
Now one of the things that you
wanna know about these three tools
is if you hit O,
it will show you in red what it's effecting
and how much it's effecting.
Now you can see on the screen here
that at the top it's fully red,
at the bottom it starts to fade the red out
so it's gradually making less of that effect
throughout the picture.
This can be really handy for photos
where at the horizon line
things get a lot brighter.
You can use graduated filters to
specifically make the sky a little bit darker
so that it's not so contrasty against
whatever is going on on the ground.
And a whole bunch of other situations.
So again hitting O shows us what we're effecting
and that works with all the tools.
It's a handy way to draw in using
the brush tool as well.
But the way that I used it on this photo
was even more specific.
The first filter that I added was
a graduated filter
and I put it so that it's effecting the sky.
You can see right here that I've gone
from top to bottom
and we're just effecting the sky
but you might notice that it's not
touching specifically the mountains
and there's a reason for that.
I used something called a range mask.
Now specifically for this case
I just want it to effect the sky
so what I did is I drew in my mask,
something like that,
and then I went down here and I chose
range mask, luminance.
Now I get to choose only the brightnesses
that I want it to effect.
Because the mountains are a little bit
darker than what we're seeing in the sky,
I can make it so it's only effecting the sky
by using luminance or brightness.
What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna effect my range
and you'll see gradually that the red
will go off of the mountains.
We're gonna go all the way up until
we see it really not touching the mountains,
somewhere around there.
And the smoothness is basically like a feather
so it'll make it a little bit softer.
I like it around 50 though,
I think that's pretty good.
And now our range mask is set
but we're not doing anything to it yet.
So now we have all of these specific controls
that we can control just for the part
that's selected using our graduated filter
with a range mask.
So I'm going to pull down my exposure a little bit,
gonna pull my highlights down,
gonna increase the whites.
I'm trying to get a little bit more of the
like cloud look out of the sky here.
I'm gonna de-haze it a little bit
and I don't wanna overdo it with the blue
so I'm gonna pull back my saturation
just a little bit.
And that's looking pretty good.
So before and after.
And if I was to turn off the luminance mask,
you can see that it's effected
the mountains quite a bit
and a lot of the areas in the sky
that weren't already super bright.
In my opinion if I don't have that
luminance mask on so that it's just
effecting the bright areas,
it's a little bit over done.
Now I also did the same thing with
a couple of brushes.
So the first brush I put was on the mountains.
So basically I took the brush
and I drew in on the mountains
and I just added a little bit of de-haze
and I also warmed them up
so there wasn't so much blue on the mountain.
That's before that effect and after it.
In this specific case I'm not using a range mask,
I just drew in the area where I wanted it,
And the other one that I did was on the water.
So I basically drew in the entire water
and I just added saturation because
I really wanted to get the nice oranges
that we have in these rocks at the bottom
and then nice blues that we had in the water
and again I didn't use a range mask
for this one specifically,
I just wanted to add saturation to
that entire bottom section.
And so on this specific photos those
were the adjustments I made beyond
just my basic adjustments using the basic tab
and the curves and so on and so forth.
So this is what it looks like before
I did those adjustments and after.
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Now in this photo when I used the range mask
you might notice that I used luminance,
but there's also something called color
and that's where our next photo comes in.
This was my basic edit on this photo
and as you can see there's still
a whole lot of blue in it.
I really like the way that the sign looks,
but you can see down in this corner all the snow,
there's so much blue,
and up in the mountain, there's so much blue.
Now I like it in the sky
and I like it on the water,
but I wanna take away some of the blue
in some of the other areas.
So again I added some filters.
I added a graduated filter from the top down
and then I chose range mask color.
And then what you can do is using this dropper
you can actually select the area
that has the colors that you'd like it to include.
So now it makes a selection based
on those colors
and then you can choose amount.
So if I show our mask here
and then I crank up the amount,
it's going to get more and more
of that blue color in there.
I didn't wanna get too crazy with it
so I ended up leaving it around 12
and then all I did was I de-saturated
the blue to taste in the sky
and then I also did pretty much the same thing
for the bottom half of the photo as well.
I drew a graduated filter up to the water,
but not covering the water
and then I did the same kind of color range mask.
I think I even chose the sky again,
the same spot in the sky,
to choose my blue color that I wanted to get rid of.
And I just de-saturated a little bit
but you can see still that there's
some blue down here in the bottom.
So what I did after that is I went in with the brush
and I drew in all of the areas in the bottom
and specifically on the mountain
and then I did the same thing.
I used a range mask, I chose a color in the sky,
that blue, I chose the amount
so that it would only effect the blue part
so it's not de-saturating any of
the nice oranges and browns that are
happening in the mountain
or the greens in the trees
or anything like that.
It's just effecting the blue
and then I de-saturated the heck out of it
by about minus 70
and we get from this to that.
And the reason that I wanted to do that
was really to make the sky
and the mountains stand against each other.
So we've got nice white with the brown
and the orange of the sign.
Then we've got a streak of blue in the middle.
Then we've got this gray mountain in the middle.
And then we've got the blue on top
so it's kind of layered,
we've got that contrast going on there.
So not only can using the brush,
the radial filter, and the graduated filter
be really powerful way to get at
very specific parts of your photo,
but also if you use those range masks
you can do so much more with it.
Getting really specific to either
the luminance, or brightness,
of the parts that you want to effect
or the colors that you want to effect.
But as always I wanna hear from you.
What do you think of these effects?
Do you have any cool ways that you
can think of that we might be able to use them?
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