Thank you, Jose.

Kerrenton Snow will definitely keep making more demos. Thanks!

That’s awesome!

Thank you!

Thank you!

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Thank you!

John Wilkinson you bet, thanks for the feedback!

+Colin Crane thanks, Colin!

+Barry Ward thanks!

+gr8 photography that's amazing, glad you're finding it so useful!

James Lane dodging and burning is key to making truly stunning black and white images, and there’s no substitute for dodging and burning in a full-featured tool like Photoshop.

Greg Benz yeah thanks! The bit about removing halos arising from dodging was the highlight for me, I never knew what to do about them

Thanks, have that order in - can't wait to get it! And thanks for the feedback!

Unfortunately, it comes with MacOS and not Windows. But you can apply solid color fill with BlendIf and lower opacity to similar effect.

Thanks, I'll give that a try.

Thanks!

I've actually never shot infrared, but I would approach it the same way (assuming I was capturing color infrared to convert to Black and White).

Unfortunately, the LUT I used is only supplied on OSX. Didn’t realize that when recording. But can use solid color layers with blend modes and BlendIf to do similar things. I’ve got a free panel on my website if you need a tool to create luminosity selections.

I have. It’s useful for some things, but all the really cool stuff absolutely requires painting through luminosity selections. If you don’t manually paint the mask, you’re getting a very simple luminosity mask. Range mask is very comparable to BlendIf, so my demos on that should give you a sense of some potential uses. I’d say they cover about 10-20% of my luminosity masking needs, and are advantageous when they can be used.

It only comes with Mac. Try a solid blue layer in soft light blend mode at low opacity and then tweak BlendIf to target lighter tones more.

@@gregbenzphotography your receipt for Windows works like a charm..need a little more massage but get the same final result..Thanks for your tips..highly appreciated

Great!

+Marc Labro Lumenzia's "contrast" button will analyze the scene and provide a contrast-enhancing curve for the selected areas (using selections or the mask preview). Dynamic contrast is essentially a filter, whereas luminosity masks determine what is adjusted and can be used with an adjustment or filter. You can use luminosity masks in conjunction with curves for a similar effect, but it's a different approach. I like using both tools for various scenarios. The sharpening in Lumenzia is great for creative sharpening (how things look on screen). I'd still recommend output sharpening (for print) using whatever tool you prefer (I use Smart Sharpen in Photoshop mostly, sometimes Nik's Sharpener).

Marc Labro hi Marc! There are many ways to convert color to B&W in Photoshop. The HSL tool can be part of that workflow as you note. Using channels or the Channel Mixer is another good option. But if the sky is a range of colors or saturation (white clouds, sunset colors, etc), then a color based tool may not give you the level of control you seek. In that case, you might want to burn (darken like in this video) through a luminosity mask or Quick Selection that targets the sky. You might also want to customize the range targeted when using the HSL tool, as expanding it a bit might capture colors that weren't darkened enough.

Hi Marc, I've always found that you can get really velvety blacks by creating a duplicate layer, adding a touch of gaussian blur to the duplicate, and then overlaying it on the original. The default 100% overlay is a bit drastic, but backing this off to around the mid 50s really works

I do not.

+David Lewis they show by default, just hold when clicking “Sel” to load with ants hidden.

Greg Benz, Ahhh, I didn't catch that in the video. Thank you, Greg! I always appreciate your support! Please keep these excellent tutorials coming!

Just create a new layer and set it to soft light. You don’t even need the gray.

Well that wasn't hard:) Thank you. I have learned ALOT about luminosity masks from watching all the videos on your website, really appreciate them. I would love to see a tutorial on luminosty masks for "city at night photos". I think its hard as the higher exposed shots tend to "overburn" areas from city lights, and the underexposed shots hides precious details.

I do have a cityscape tutorial in my Exposure Blending Masted Course, though not quite the scenario you are describing.

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It’s pretty recent, and opacity and flow still work the same.

I don’t photograph wildlife

+Lyn Rostron I'm not aware of an official way to get those profiles. I'd suggest using the ones available to you, or using the other methods listed at the bottom of the written article that goes with this video (gregbenzphotography.com/photography-tips/how-to-make-stunning-black-and-white-images-with-luminosity-masks). There are so many ways to add color. My videos are meant to show the intention, and I would suggest always experimenting with variations on the approach I demonstrate to find what works work best for your style and image.

Click on the Solid Color layer in Lumenzia, change the color as desired to blue, and then reduce the opacity on the new layer you get.

Dodging and burning with a luminosity mask is nothing like dodging and burning free hand.

it was a 50% grey filled layer set to soft light and you painted with a white and black brush. how much more by hand can that be?

I had an active selection (a luminosity selection). That controls where the black or white paint goes on the Dodge/burn layer. For example, you can use a luminosity selection to make subtle highlights in the rock stronger without muddying up the shadows that should remain dark. Trying to achieve the same result without the luminosity selections would much more time-consuming, and likely yield an inferior result.

+Mitch Derr not sure, it is installed by default. You look in the same part of that panel? There are a few different drop downs for LUTs in the interface.

I'm having the same weird problem. No Blue Tone, no Sepia (other choices but not those). If anyone figures out how to re-download these, I might not be the only one who could use such a tip.

May have found the answer. It appears that several of the "abstract" profiles are only available on Mac, not PC (and I use PC). See the CS6 article (and I use CC) here: www.photoshopessentials.com/photo-editing/color-lookup-cs6/

Mike Ash strange, no idea why that would be the case. Thanks for the info!

While it may not be the precisely same tones, PC users could go Image> Adjustments > Photo Filter & then select Sepia or one or more of the cooling filters.

Start playing! Or check out the written blog post I have linked in the description for alternative ideas to color without using LUTs. 308, crazy.

Thanks for the reply. Turns out half of the ICCs are backups - my bad. The bulk of the others are non-adobe softwares and from print houses. they add up.

Sounds like a lot of sorting!

It was ugly.

Sad times. Just bought the panel. Lots to learn.

Thank you! Let me know if you need anything.