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Best 9 minutes of youtube i have watched all year. Thank you

At last someone who explained curves perfectly. Thank you

Great tutorial and not just for the masks. You taught me a lot about the color curves in a very short video. Well done.

Well done Colin!!! Best demo on colour curves I have seen, thank you!!

Extremely useful Colin, and presented in a no nonsense, easy to understand way as usual - thank you so much for helping me on my photographic journey! Your videos are among the best out there. Best wishes from the UK

Repeating what has been said already: Extremely useful!

I’ve been using LR for years and now I am realizing that I totally missed many features with the curve module! This was very informative. Thank you!

Thank you so much!!! I really liked seeing the new features in practice!

You the man Colin! Best instructor around

Terrific video, Colin! I didn't realise how you can mix colours as if using paints on a palette (the way you achieved those orange highlights). That's a revelation for me! Congratulations on the simplicity with which you explain these concepts. Many thanks!

That targeted adjustment tool - I keep forgetting to use it. Thanks for highlighting it again. Cheers.

I have always shied away from using the tone curve. This video showed me how much I was missing by not using it. Thank you very kindly.

Great explaining! This has become my number one tool! So easy and with so much control. Thanks!

A really useful new feature. Thank you so much for taking us through its potential.

Thankyou. I will now redo my "Train that goes nowhere" a hotel in Kruger.......you have helped mea lot.

Thank you for that walk through. That was so helpful. First time explained in a clear and concise way at the right pace. Thank you for posting.

Thanks Colin yet again another great tutorial

It's crazy you guys had to wait this long for this, never even knew that LR did not have this.

That's very cool. I've used the new tone curve in masks but never to adjust colors like that. Very useful, thank you. 😊

As always simply genius explanation !

Didn’t even realize this came out. Thanks!!

Wow - learned so much... fabulous tutorial.. can't wait to apply it...

Your narrative & the graphics are Top Notch. This 10 min lesson takes a day+ to prepare. Thank you !!

VERY helpful video. Thanks, Colin.

Curves are a great addition to the masks in Lightroom. That's also a very photogenic church, which I also photographed when on holiday in Kauai, the Wai'oli Hui'ia Church and Mission House in Hanalei, Kauai.

Excellent tutorial and easy to understand, thank you

Excellent tutorial! I hadn't thought of using the new curves within masks to add color to the highlights of the sky. Thanks!

This is great!! Thanks for introducing it.

Thanks for your tutorial. I discovered a very strange behavior when using the curves within masking. In a portrait photo I wanted to completely remove a very busy background. I selected the the background and changed in Curves the diagonal in a horizontal 50%L and 50% R line. The background changed in a flat middle gray. I left the mask mode and i had the portrait against nice gray background. But the strange thing was that i could not change that background anymore whatever changes I try to make in the normal mode. For instance; If I made the picture with the normal exposure-slider a full stop darker only the portrait became darker but the background stayed unaltered. In order to make that background 'active' again I had to open the picture in photoshop and saved it directly without any changes to Lightroom. The picture could now be edited as a whole.

Dude... I have watched soo many videos on using lightroom for editing and yours are always by far the easiest and the best . I thank you. I honestly think you made the image look worse but that's just my opinion. I would have changed the sky to mostly blue sky. But its irrelevant because the main thing is I'm learning a lot from your videos

Very good Colin. I sort of dismissed this feature due to ignorance I suppose but not anymore. Thank you.

personally I do say: "select sky" then right away option > duplicate and inverse if I plan to change settings on both, this way I know I have proper two excluding mask that matches perfectly in case the selection is somewhat different when reselecting the sky to make a new selection like you did. not a big change but that's just my workflow

A very good tutorial Colin; to the point , very precise and clear. Hah, wait to mess around with it👍😜

I so wanted to know the advantages of having the tone curve in the local adjustment, but could not even imagine what those advantages were. Thank you so very much for your excellent video. I appreciate your teaching style.

I have just learnt a lot in 9 minutes!

Thanks again Colin, easy to understand and remember, a great instructor.

Another great tutorial. Thank you!

This was a great help with the use of the curves feature in LR. I am not jumping to PS as often these days.

I knew about the new curves function on the masks, I hadn't given weight to the full potential of this function, thanks for pointing it out!!

Great example of what the new masking curves do, Thank You 👍😎

..explained very well........enjoyable to watch...

I have been waiting for this feature since I switched to Lr from Aperture 3 all those years ago. This is a great description of all its uses, too.

Brilliant ! Thank you.

Great video. Your content and presentation style are perfect. Thank you.

Brilliant video for someone new to LR😁👍😁

The A.I selection tool is something I wish Capture One had.

Great tutorial, keep it coming 🤠

Well done. And you used a similar image to one I captured a year ago 😊

Great tutorial. Thank you.

If you right click on the mask and choose to duplicate and invert it also resets the adjustments 👌

This was super helpful thank you. If you have time one day, would love to see a video using this tool on a portrait. Appreciate the explanation. Awesome.

Really helpful. Thank you😊

That was really cool! Thank you!

What I would love is for Adobe to allow me full use of those raw masks so I can apply certain presets to parts of the image.

We were not aware this new adjustment was available -- too bad the mask adjustment panels are not a different colour then we could easily recognize when Adobe adds another panel. This newest addition is VERY useful!

Great video learned a lot from this.

Thanks. Great stuff as usual.

So didactic ... thank you ! LR is becoming very powerful with these new settings, including new color grading.

Yeah thats been waiting for long and it makes huge , difference and flexibility , i wihing the HSL and seprate color adjustments wth the mask , da vinci has already more than that freedom on the image !!!Lightroom should add these features!!

Thanks! Very instructive! Great use of features and technique. I just subscribed. Geoff

Very interesting, thanks a lot! I will put them in practice ASAP!

Really useful, thank you👍🏻

Very helpful, thank you

As for the tone curves: If I change the tone curve only over a single point, it doesn't matter whether I put the point in the shadows or highlights. The curve always bends the same when I move the point up or down. Only when I set a second point do I have the option of protecting this area and changing another tonal area.

Great video!!!

Excellent, thank you

Thanks, I learned quite a lot from your presentation.

Nice! Thank you! And, I know that little church in Kaua’i!

Thanks Colin that helped me as I always go to photoshop and use levels.never to sure on the curves adjustment 😊😊

This new feature just might get me to using curves more!!!! LOL!!!

Very cool, thank you. Subscribed.

Excellent thank you

Very cool, and helpful :-) Thanks

Excellent. Very clear. Thank you

Spot on 🤘

Thanks for the great video!!!!!

Thank you for the video - most helpful.

Thank you

Thanks

Very useful! Thank you! 🙏

That's great news! But I'm still waiting for the option of color grading on masks 🙏

Thanks 🙏

So fun!!

Very helpful, thanks!

I'm thinking of doing a react video in response to this video you've made here.

Very useful. Thank you

Thanks! 😅

Can everything you did there in Lightroom, be done in Photoshop?

ty for the tipp :)

Great! Thx.

Brilliant 👏🏻

Great video, thanks a lot!

Awes9me vid, I like your style of explanation. Very easy to follow! Liked n sub’d!

Awesome

Is it all the same on iPad Pro ? BTW it was really helpful ❤

once you brought down the exposure and highlights of the sky (@0:45), the sky looks bit like there will be a thunderstorm (like dark grey rain clouds). is there a way to make a cloudy blue sky?

there is a formatting error in your description. "08:010 Adjusting the Intensity of the adjustment" should be: 08:10 Adjusting the Intensity of the adjustment

Thank you, Colin for the very informative and helpful video; of course, you do realize that by showing me all the things I didn't know - but now do - you made my life harder because, now I will have to learn how to do them! SMS I really wonder if there is anyone in the world who truly knows all there is to know about Photoshop or Lightroom; seems to me that one could almost spend their entire lifetime devoted to its study and still now know it all. What wonderful - almost miraculous - programs. We are very lucky to live in the day and age when we can avail ourselves of them and so many other wonderful programs.

Anyone know how to match the exact shade of something?