Unpacking the New Masking Features in Lightroom
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!
Release Date: 2021-10-26
Lessons
Five Things You Need to Know
Scott introduces the class and discusses what will be covered in the lessons that follow.
Duration: 6 mins 1 seconds
Select Subject
One of the best new features of Masking is the AI-based Select Subject function.
Duration: 4 mins 16 seconds
Select Sky
Using the same machine learning as Select Subject, you can also build a mask automatically with Select Sky.
Duration: 3 mins 37 seconds
Inverting a Mask
The automatic selection tools are powerful, but they can also be inverted to select everything else except that subject or sky.
Duration: 5 mins 59 seconds
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.
Duration: 5 mins 52 seconds
Color Range
The Color Range function can now be used on the entire image by itself to select a color and make a mask.
Duration: 5 mins 55 seconds
Luminance Range
Similar to Color Range, Luminance Range can function on its own as a way to make a mask by brightness values.
Duration: 5 mins 55 seconds
Brushing on a Mask
Formerly called the Adjustment Brush, now it is just called the Brush, but it works the same way.
Duration: 8 mins 21 seconds
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.
Duration: 7 mins 30 seconds
Skin Retouching
Using the Masking tools can make skin retouching so much easier.
Duration: 5 mins 21 seconds
Intersect Mask
There may be situations where you want to use the Intersect Mask function to create a new mask.
Duration: 2 mins 18 seconds
Masking on Mobile
Scott shows how to use the Masking tools in Lightroom for mobile.
Duration: 3 mins 27 seconds
Metadata Panel Updates
One last thing that snuck into this update is a revamped Metadata panel.
Duration: 5 mins 14 seconds