LIGHTROOM CLASSIC V 11.0.1(Better Localized Brushing Adjustments) Via INTERSECT MASKING

lightroom classic has been newly updated this is version 11.0.1 today i'm going to show you how you can get better localized brushing adjustments using intersect masking stay tuned hello everyone and welcome to the joy of editing with dave kelly the latest update in lightroom is a big breakthrough for lightroom and i wanted to show you some things that i've discovered with it today now there's been a lot of videos put out about the new masking techniques that you can do in lightroom and i want to show you something that i don't think i've seen yet on the internet but i'm going to show you my take on doing localized brush adjustments using the intersect masking tool in lightroom that being said i still do all of my critical local adjustments in photoshop using the tk8 plugin for photoshop because the masking in photoshop is is better it's much more feathered more realistic but this new lightroom technology is not bad and for basic adjustments it's fine let me show you what i mean the image on the left was a mask that i made in photoshop using the tk8 plug-in for photoshop can you see how nice and feathered and exact that mask is compare it to the image on the right which is a lightroom highlights mask they're both highlights masks but you notice the one on the right is a little more blocky it's not quite as defined it's really good to be honest with you but it's nowhere near the precision of the mask i can make with the tk8 plug-in in photoshop however for basic adjustments and if you don't want to get into big elaborate photoshop edits this lightroom masking is really good now and for some photographers that's all they need but on my part i'll do basic things here and i'll save the critical stuff for photoshop and the tk8 plug-in for photoshop well let me show you how this works now i've done some basic edits on this image and what i want to do is come up to this new uh masking tool so let's click right here and i'm sure you've watched a lot of videos on the internet as well as i have but i don't think i've seen this technique anywhere that i'm going to show you today and i'm referring to using the brush tool intersecting it with other tools like the color range tool or the luminance range tool the first thing i want to do is show you how i can target just the highlighted areas and then be able to brush just the highlighted areas in and i'll show you what i mean i'm going to come here and grab the luminance range tool here and i got my little eyedropper and i'm going to find some light tones here that i want to lighten up okay so like maybe right here i'm going to click and when i do that you can see there's my mask and now i can refine my mask if i take this slider and move it to the left i'll broaden the mask if i move it to the right i'll make the mask more narrower and then i can even tighten up the actual area that it's picking by pulling in on these handles here on the left and on the right i can take it more into highlights to the right or find the area that i want right in here and this is the feathering side for the highlights okay so i might just bring it in i'm not worried about the clouds up there i'm only dealing with the trees so i'm just gonna feather this in so i have a little bit of cloud selected here and up here i might just pull that in a little bit more because uh if i get near the edges of these trees i don't want the clouds to be affected so i think that's pretty good and now let me see how this feathering is here okay i want to bring this in just a little bit because again i just want to target the highlight areas here okay once i've done that i can take the exposure adjustment and start to drag it to the right and you can see those highlighted areas get lighter now it looks not real good right now and what i'm going to do is be a little overboard here because i'm going to paint these adjustments in okay so right now it doesn't look good but where do you see how it looks when i'm done so there's the exposure and i might give it a little bit more saturation as well okay maybe something like that the next thing i'm going to do is see where it says luminance range in this ellipse right here click right here and what we're going to do is intersect with a brush okay we're intersecting it with a brush now notice one thing here or two things it's in the invert uh position by default and it's in erase mode by default i haven't quite wrapped my head around all this yet but i'm still thinking about it but believe it or not this is the way you need to add these targeted adjustments in the erase mode and in the invert mode and it does it for you when you click on that intersect with a brush now i need to set my brush up so what i'm going to do is see the flow i'm going to use a lower flow because i want to build my adjustments up slowly so with a low flow i'm going to have to paint more to bring the adjustments out okay and my feathers around 58 which i think is good and i'm going to bring my brush size down just a little wee bit now you see all the light areas everywhere watch when i start to brush an area they'll all go away and now you only see that light area here do you see that isn't that kind of cool so now i'm just targeting the highlighted areas now if i paint into darker areas it will not be affected because if i hover over luminance range you can see that's what the luminance range is selecting okay and if i hover over my brush tool that's what i painted on my brush you'll see how sloppy that is but here's the result on the mask is that cool so here's the luminance range here's what i'm painting with the brush and here's my result okay so now i can come over and paint highlights anywhere i want and i can be sloppy because it's only targeting the highlighted areas okay so let me get this guy over here and i have a low flow so i can the more i paint the more the adjustment comes out and i can be kind of sloppy like i said because that luminance range is protecting me so i can come here now this tree i can come down in here and let's just you know target areas that i want to highlight but i can be very painterly here and just get the areas that i want okay and i know this tree is getting some highlights down in here and this tree in here these trees here okay so here is my before now if i come up to this mask here and click this eye here's the before and here's the after isn't that cool and again if i hover over this mask you can see how my adjustments got targeted and again the brush looks like this very sloppy but it's only going to let me paint the adjustments where the luminance range is okay so that's what i have so far now i could come here and if i wanted to uh if they're too bright i can pull back on the exposure a little bit and maybe add a little bit more saturation there if i want and i could maybe add a little bit of uh let's see how about a little bit of texture just to make those pop a little bit more let's see what a little clarity does yeah a little clarity in there too but again here is the before and here's after but that's localized adjustments so you can just paint those effects just where you want them now let's say you added this highlight on this tree like i added the highlight on the tree but you say you know what i don't want it well how can i get rid of it well that's a good question here's what you need to do right now we're erasing i know it sounds odd we're racing to add the adjustment so we have to do the opposite to take the adjustment away so instead of hitting erase click on either one of these brushes i'm going to click on a and you can adjust your size accordingly and your flow i'm going to leave the flow up to 100 density at 100 and all i have to do is paint over this and i remove it you see that so anytime you want to remove an adjustment instead of erase you want to add by clicking on a regular brush if you want to put that back just click on erase again and now i can come here and add that back in it's just that simple it took me a while to wrap my head around this but once i got it i thought oh this is really good i gotta make a video on this now let's say we want to darken the area in these clouds these darker areas of the cloud so what i can do here is create a new mask click this and let's select the sky give it a second or two to select the sky and once the sky is selected which it is and by the way i have my mask is black and white you can change that by coming here and saying show it as a color overlay i like mine as black and white because i'm used to working in photoshop with the tk8 panel and it's working with layer masks and they're always black and white so i'm just really used to the black and white so i'm going to set mine back to white on black but you can set these masks up any way you want okay so now i'm going to shut the overlay off because what i want to do is i just want to select the dark areas of the sky so what i'll do is this is going to be a little more elaborate here so i'll go ahead and intersect i'll click the ellipse intersect with this time only i'll intersect with a luminance range and let me shut my overlay off again and i want to select these darker tones right here okay now i have to make some adjustments here so let's adjust the feathering here actually i got to pull this in no i get to pull this over this way it's these areas right here okay so now let me adjust this feathering this way and out this way see i want some nice feathering here and let me see how i want this to go maybe somewhere around there because the light areas will get the effect okay so let's feather that a good bit like so let me see do i'm going to narrow this in a little bit don't widen the snow then i could slide the whole thing one way or the other and i think that's a pretty decent feathering in there you can see some nice softness around the edges here and again these masks are not as accurate as you would get in photoshop so normally i wouldn't do this here but i'm going to show you how you could do it here in a pinch remember the lighter areas are going to get the adjustment okay so that's good next what i need to do is intersect this luminance range with a brush so intersect with a brush all right and now let's go ahead and take the exposure and let me just darken those areas now you'll notice all the areas are getting dark but i just want to brush in the areas i want to go dark so i'm going to do that now remember i have my brush tool and you'll notice it's in the erase mode and in the invert mode i'm going to get myself a larger brush by just pulling the size up more and i have a very low flow but watch what i'll do all these other dark areas will go away when i start brushing here and you notice i can just start brushing that up i can go over any dark area and just brush in the amount i want but this is pretty cool and it's pretty effective and we couldn't do this in lightroom before but now we can but just like that i think it does a pretty good job again let's take a look here's the sky i selected here's the luminance range which is affecting the entire image however it's intersected with the sky and the brush is intersected with the luminance range and you can see it's a very sloppy brushing but we can look here and see here is my result isn't that amazing pretty cool stuff right and now we can take a look uh on this mask oops let me open this back up here here's the before and here's the after so that's another thing we can do i'm going to show you one more thing we can do you may want to go back and watch this video a few times just to wrap your head around it i have to be honest with you this lightroom masking is is pretty powerful but it's not very intuitive it's not very user friendly so after you get onto it it's not that bad but you may need to watch this a few times the last thing i'm going to do is lighten up this grass right down here okay and i'll show you how i do that let's create a new mask now that's green grass right so what do you think i would use here color range i think so let's click on color range and let's just grab some of the green here like so and it makes a really nice mask now i could come here and refine that mask by adjusting this slider if i move it to the left it'll get a little tighter if i move it to the right it'll broaden out but i think right about here looks pretty good now i only i want to brush in this adjustment so the next thing i'll do is take the exposure and i'll just lighten up the exposure now it's going to lighten up all the greens in the image and i'm going to go a little overboard here i'm going to lighten it up and i'll maybe add a little extra saturation to the green as well and now i need to paint that adjustment on so i'm going to come up here to the color range click on the ellipse and i want to intersect it with a brush okay and let's see how big you want my brush to be i'll make it right around there and again i have 58 on the feather and the flow at 26. so now you see green is lightened up and over saturated everywhere but now i'm just going to paint right along this grass here now you see i'm just brushing across here with that low flow and i can add as much of that lightening as i want in here so that's pretty nice it's a nice controlled adjustment okay so now we can see here's the before and just watch the green grass and here's the after so isn't that pretty cool and again if we hover over color range we can see the targeted area we can see where i brushed with a real sloppy brush but here's my result on the mask and it's a great result except for this area right here i over painted and that's a bit of a problem if i wanted to get rid of that all i need to do is get out of the erase brush mode by uh clicking a what i'll do is make my brush a little smaller i'm just using my left bracket key and i'll just come here and erase it off of here and that way it won't be there okay and now if we look at the mask it looks like that and now let's see what the adjustment looks like so that's what the adjustment looks like now let's toggle it off here's the before and here's the after and then we can go back here and fine tune like if it's too light we can ease back on a little bit and if it's too saturated we could pull back on the saturation a little bit and again here's the before and here's the after now if you want to see your overall before and after just come up here where it says mask then untoggle this there's the overall before and there's the overall after well there you go everyone so if you want better improved localized brushing results in lightroom follow my technique but if you really want to get really precise adjustments you still need photoshop and again as you can see the image on the left is a mask made in photoshop it's a lot more detailed it's a lot more feathered compared to the lightroom highlight mask on the right which is a little more blocky so it's not quite as precise so if you want precision you still need photoshop but if it's a basic masking job lightroom will do it for you if you have an updated lightroom classic yet you need to do it this is version 11.0.1 and you can take advantage of all the really great new masking technology if you enjoyed this tutorial today please give it a like and share with your friends and if you're not yet a subscriber to my channel please subscribe click that bell notification icon then every time i upload a new tutorial you'll be notified about it i want to thank each and every one of you for joining me today in the joy of editing with dave kelly and i'll see you all right here next time but until then happy editing

Channel: The Joy of Editing with Dave Kelly

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Keywords: Lightroom, Classic, Lightroom Classic, Photography, Masking, Local Adjustments, Adjustment Brush, Luminance Range Mask, Color Range Mask, Intersect, Photo Editing

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Length: 16min 13sec (973 seconds)

Published: Wed Dec 08 2021