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Thanks for explaining this in a simple & easy to understand way. I love your teaching style Anthony, such a help!

thanks Anthony. I am new to luminosity masks and watched a fews videos trying to grasp how they work. Most of them were very intimidating and too advanced. Yours is the only one that gave me that light bulb moment! Thank you for your clear concise and simple explanation! Now I can go explore some more....

Thanks, Anthony, that was literally enlightening. Short and clear. Years ago I purchased a renowned plug-in for Luminosity Masks in Photoshop. Included was an extensive course, which was very well made, but the creator actually never even mentioned these basics, he focused solely on his plug-in buttons for Mask A or Mask B. This is like the "lost prologue" of that course.

Perhaps a follow-up video on tools available to more easily create luminosity masks. My favorite is Tony Kuyper's TK 8. Matt Koslowski also has one and I am sure there are many more. Or a video on how to create a photoshop action that creates them. I think people are much more likely to use them in their workflow if they can automatically generate them.

Great video! I realize this was LM 101, but it cleared up a lot of misconceptions I had about LM and will be useful. I look forward to more of your videos on the subject. Thank you.

Thank you for demonstrating such a useful tool. I use Lightroom Classic mainly and have greatly enjoyed your tutorials that help us to use Photoshop and not be intimidated by it. Your tutorials are clear and easily understood by novices. Looking forward to the next one.

New to this. Fantastic video and very easy to understand. Thank you!!

This will be a welcome addition to my tool kit. I often have to adjust shadows in my photos. This seems much more refined and easy to do.

Anthony you did a great job of explaining the process ! As a fairly new Photoshop user, I found it SO much easier to use masks once I invested $29 in TK8 or Lumenzia masking panels ! One click on each area really simplifies the concept. Thanks

What a great video, and what a great teacher… Ty.

Thank you this is something new to me and I can see how it would be very useful

Hi Anthony, I use Greg Benz's Lumenzia Photoshop Panel. Although there's a substantial learning curve, it's very flexible and allows you to do about anything with luminosity masking, including exposure blending. I use it so much that I have it permanently installed as a panel in Ps. Thanks for your very informative videos!

Great overview, thanks!

Excellent, thanks

Really it is very helpful!

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Thanks!

A lot of folks are using the excellent luminosity plugins and do not really understand what they are doing. That would be me. Now I really get it! Thanks, Tony. As usual, you are the best.

Can you please cover this in detail for Lightroom too? I’m presently struggling with luminosity masking in Lightroom with shots taken in the old walled cities of Split and Dubrovnik where the top half of the buildings are in very strong sunlight and the lower half is in deep shadow. I find this to be very touchy and maybe you can give us some pointers on how to best do this.

I am shocked Photoshop (and LR) has not added a simple 1 click LUMINOSITY MASK option yet. It is insane in 2023 to still have to go through all of these steps to create one. I also use ON1 which has a 1-click luminosity mask option built in (no plugins or actions needed). So easy. it's absurd that PS and LR does not offer this still to this day.

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Hi Mr Morganti as someone has put below, could you do a video showing how to do this in LRC please? I have the Adobe Photography Plan but even though I have access to PS I very rarely open it up. This is a case in point, I followed the first part of this video up to the brightening, but then it just shows how complicated a technique like this is in PS to someone like me now getting older, and then finding its more difficult to learn new things.

Have question I like taking long exposures of trees on what people call a boneyard the trees move in the waves which gives it a ghosting effect have done a video on how to fix this ? I did take two photos of the tree one a fast shutter speed the second long exposure will this help in fixing this ?

Thank you .. I was also having the same question as a primarily Lightroom user and do a lot of landscape photography , however at the end of the video I was a bit familiar with these approach and if I’m not wrong I can do most of these ( if not all ) in Lightroom .. there’s luminance mask or color mask can be useful for detecting shadows or highlights .. and there’s color grading mask which you can adjust the colors and luminance of highlights shadows midtones separately .. am I missing something ? or both software do the same job with this topic ?

I run a action script that give me 6 selection of the 3 tones. Then I do LM on it. I been doing this for 2 years. I have yet to get into the fancy panels like Lumensia, Raya Pro, etc etc. I want to learn the basic first. LM is powerful! Better than combining it to HDR which give horrible results.

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I've been playing with the new luminosity masks in Affinity Photo 2. They are so much easier and more precise than those PS masks. I'd assumed Affinity just did what PS did but I see they've rethought the whole process.

But the Luminosity masking in Lightroom is very strong, so this seems like a little old way to do it. Just a slider to set it for the lighter and darker areas. Camera Raw filter or at import in Photoshop.

This is so imprecise and awkward. I think Lrc (or ACR if you want to stay in Ps) is a much better and easier way to select the exact luminosity range that you want to work on.

I know all KZfaqrs do it, because it's drummed into people that "Longer videos=more views" But a minute in, you haven't started talking about what the video is supposed to be covering. So I gave up. Get. to. the. point.