This is how how-to videos should be made....clear and concise!!! Great job on the video!! You've made me a little more dangerous!

Thanks for the video, I really appreciate that!

Thanks this has inspired me to review many of my old photos which were difficult to balance the sky and foreground.

I have been fooling arround with adobe suite and other similar programs and thought I had a grasp over masks but after watching this video I finally have a much much much deeper understanding of how to use masks to get the desired look I want in my pictures. Thank you so much for such a great video, simple yet full of knowledge!

Excellent Tutorial many thanks

Quite a complex set of steps but well explained and very useful. Thank you

Well done on an really informative and well explained briefing on the use of the Luminosity mask

1st time here, and already I'm benefiting from your Tutorial. Thank you kindly. Nicely done with mini-examples and verbal explanations. Must get to your other videos in Take Better Photos.

THANK YOU SOO MUCH ❤ On *iPad Pro…* what a DAMNED hassle & time consuming thing, working on complex images. After watching your video, I tested, on a complex image I’m working on for a Sci-Fi art concept. I needed to remove the archer from his background. Lots of complexity going: • archer • in the sun light • Clouds behind him • his bow has lots of intricate patterns with edges, the edges, have sun shine on them (confusing selection tool) • some if these patterns also have holes in them allowing the sun to bleed into the bow (confusing the selection tool) *BEFORE WATCHING YOUR VIDEO* this was becoming nightmare selecting this, I really didn’t want to use the pen tool. *After watching your video…* I replicated your steps, *BUT* placed luminous mask directly on the archer subject, and fine tuned the curve… *BOOM* The nightmare, turned into a fun & quick process. Thank you for giving me my TIME!

TQvm ❤

I am sure you are aware that much better control of the brushing on the luminosity mask can be had by painting in the softlight or overlay blend modes with either white or black to modify the mask. Thanks for sharing

Great video. Wonderfully explained concepts. I love Affinity Photo 2. But man :) Capture One does this kind of stuff straightforwardly, and with ease. You had to do a great deal of work to get the photo just right!

I travel with ipad. While i have the desktop version most of my time will be spent away. With complex operation like this i find ipad menus can be a bit frustrating. Great video btw!

Thank you for this good explanation, that helps me a lot! Small aspect, in your compound mask: Do you need to use the Raw embedded option in developer upfront for changing the whole image later on in developer? I use the pixel layer a lot to use tone adjustment in photo you see, in HDR. Is there a work around? Or am I wrong about this?

Great video makes masking more understanding , I try this masking on a 360 photo but not working for me , i also merge down when finish all adjusting but when looking around the 360 photo the mask not moving around with the 360 photo , its like a still white paint filter

Thank you. Now it became clear how to use luminosity masks. I have a question...Does the processing in the "Personal Photo" section go exactly to RAW using its full depth and all the information from the RAW file or only the tools of the "Develop Persona" section fully work with RAW? Is that already flat and rasterized in the "Photo Persona" section? 🤔

Thank you for the thorough explanation about creating a luminosity mask and additionally a Compound mask, however, I have two questions. #1 - After creating your first luminosity (concentrating on the light areas - the sky, in this instance), could you duplicate the mask and then invert the mask and then concentrate on on the dark areas (the foreground)? #2 - Perhaps a better way to balance out the lights and darks would be to create a "full range" of luminosity masks in [ Channels ]. A full range of masks from lightest lights to darkest darkest and increments between. Then by loading (CMD+Click) on a particular mask (or a range of Masks) in [ Channels ], and then proceed to make your adjustments. Doing this in such a manner would produce a more subtle range of luminosity between the extreme darks and the extreme lights. Can this be done in Affinity Photo? * Simply lightning up the dark areas causes a lack of contrast and "washed out" colors. I don't currently use Affinity Photo so I don't know if "a range" of luminosity masks can be created in Channels.

Heya there people got a difficult question to ask about Affinity photo 2 you know where the layer bar is? How do I put adjustments there??? it's at the bottom of it currently I need it to be right by layers, channels and brushes hope people can help me out You've got such a lovely voice by the way, really soft nice to listen to

if you used the selection brush in the past you were doing it wrong. You should use blend ranges and restrict the exposure adjustment to the blacks and shadows. There is much better control with this approach. I feel you dont need luminosity masks. Blend ranges works the same and you always had that capability. It corresponds to blend if in photoshop. In fact if you look at the luminosity mask chart is almost exactly like the blend ranges mask chart for the underlying layer... You always had the capability. In addition using the right blend mode with the new layer fill capability will give you better results...

Is it possible to apply a curves adjustment to the luminosity mask?

when I try this with the range mask my image shows the transparancy through,any idea why please?

Luminance versus Luminosity. I'm confused!!

I'm not sure I understand the need of the compound mask, unless it was just to show how to make one. When he painted the sky black, why couldn't he have just painted the buildings white at the same time?

Get to the point: 2:52