Well, thank you David for that very kind (and entirely unpaid/unsolicited...I swear) endorsement. 😁

I'm an admitted lazy KZfaqr, Mickey. I only manage to post videos when I have some spare time and something new and/or cool I want to share. 😂

@@SeanBagshaw Completely understand. I don't know how you guys keep it up. I always get a laugh when I hear someone say, "these guys don't do anything but play and make videos". I just want to ask them, "What color is the sky in your world ?!?!" I appreciate your time and your work. I'll take it whenever I can get it.

I have been using your TK8 vignette technique on several pictures and this will probably be my final step on all my photos now. You don't even know that you have a vignette until you click it off. FANTASTIC TY Sean

Thanks! 👍

Right on Phillip. I always appreciate the good words. It’s pretty fun, this photography game we play 😄

Yes! You can totally do this in Lr now as you describe. When I’m doing most of my work in Lr or using a smart object in Ps I’ll often choose to go this route. Otherwise, since I usually do this toward the end of my workflow, I use this method in Ps.

Mask the mask is also a great option, but as you point out fewer layers and masks is a little cleaner. All good either way. :-)

Knowing Tony he just might add it.

You can totally do this same thing in Lr, and even easier now with the new add/subtract/intersect mask operations. Just make an inverted radial filter to darken the edges and then subtract the dark tones using the luminance range tool.

@@SeanBagshaw Yep. Seems like they could just add something like an “edge luminance” slider right to the vignette section. I still like the Freehand Vignette approach in TK8 along with your cool luminance mask blend.

@@byoregon1 Not for noth'nn , but wouldn't be just as easy to grab a brush & do your own? Keep in mind I'm a light weight when it comes to pp, & that's why I'm asking.

That's a great idea, Donald, and you can still use Sean's method to do that. The My Channels button offers "Active Selection" as an option for creating a mask. So you would be able to subtract a Select Sky selection from the Vignette mask using the Mask Calculator by using My Channels to generate a Sky mask from a Select Sky selection. Hope that makes sense. That would indeed be a useful application of this technique.

@@TonyKuyper It does! I’m going back to 150 recent AZ and UT photos subtracting sky and protecting darks like Sean shows. Just super!

And I’ve progressed to turning off tool tips. Getting there.

@@TonyKuyper I just applied the same technique to protect highlights from the spotlight action. Very nice. Just love TK8.

@@donaldbernhardt Indeed, subtracting a Lights mask from a spotlight would be the flip side of this technique, though I tend to use spotlights less than vignettes. Also, most images are actually much heavier in shadow and darker midtone values (as shown by the image's histogram), and so you tend to lose these darker tones more easily in a vignette as compared to losing lighter tones in a spotlight. However, if you have a significant amount of light tones in your spotlighted area, then using the Mask Calculator to subtract a Lights-series mask from the spotlight could prove useful, I think.

I’m afraid I’m not a video expert so color grading video is not my specialty. Glad you think the videos look good. I think I’m just lucky that the lighting in my office is pretty good. If you search KZfaq I’m sure you can find some excellent video color grading tutorials.

Not from within the free panel. You can make the darks luminosity mask but the rest you would need to know how to do manually in Photoshop.

@@SeanBagshaw thank you sir 🙏

To an extent. Read Tony Kuyper’s reply to Larry Rudnick elsewhere in the comments.

Seems like that should work too. Need to try it and compare.

While Blend-If could probably be used to to replicate what Sean did here, it's actually somewhat limiting in several regards for this particular technique. 1) Once you know which mask to subtract (Darks-3, in this case) it's easy to make it and use it each time. You don't have to fiddle with sliders to figure out the mask equivalent to Darks-3. Multi-Mask makes that mask for you quickly and you're all set. 2) What if you want to subtract of a sky selection (as discussed in another comment) and not the Darks-3 mask? Blend If can't subtract the sky. It only works on tones. So a Sky subtraction isn't possible with Blend-If 3) An even more sophisticated application of this technique is to load Darks-3 as a selection and then use black paint to paint through this selection onto the layer mask. This provides even better control over adjusting the vignette by both painting exactly where you want to lessen the vignette and by how much (by applying multiple brush strokes). You can't paint through Blend-If. This type of control is only possible by painting through a selection. So while Blend-If can provide a basic equivalence of this technique, it wouldn't get you much further for more advanced and potentially very useful applications of it.

@@TonyKuyper thank you so much

@@TonyKuyper I had the same question Tony, great explanation for the advantages of this technique. Your panel is my go to, use it on all my images, thank you so much!!

I don’t think so anymore.