Wow! Precision masking and a brilliant understandable master tutor, we are so fortunate! Nico.

Thank you for the tutorial. First I learned how to use Blend If masking through your tutorials, and once again you enlightened me on the use of the color range and luminosity mask in Lightroom and Photo Shop. Your help in assisting a novice understand some advance steps in LR and PS is priceless.

This is by far the best explanation of the new masking tools I’ve seen. I finished your full class this afternoon and it was awesome!

OH MY GOD BLAKE!!!!!!!!!!! You just saved me I have NO IDEA how many hundreds of hours........ I have been doing some night sky composites lately, and I actually went with a brush at 500% zoom masking out the tree-line in one... 😬😬😬 It worked out Amazingly, but I spent at least 30 hours doing it! I just had the idea to use blend if on them and I shrunk that time down to about 60 SECONDS!!! I'm SOO HAPPY right now! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

I watched this is pieces as I was working on a photo. Since I was used to using PS for this, I was not too excited about it, but just trying to learn if it would be useful to me. It turned out that doing this with the RAW gave me better results than doing it with PS. Having the extra RAW data to work with added something over what I had done with this photo before. I put it in the PSD I had above the base layer and even though I had to redo the adjustments It was better than using PS for the masking. This was on a good photo that the gallery is selling. Learning I can make it even better is exciting. I am starting to understand this. It gives me a better starting point for PS which makes everything better.

Purchased your ZSE RAW course and practiced the tools while watching the videos. Your presets and videos have helped tremendously in understanding what's "under the hood" and how to apply. Great tutorials!

It's my first video I watched, and I will watch all from your side. This video is packed with enormous precision to take the workflow to the next level. Huge fan of your work.

I love your ZSE RAW course Blake. Can highly recommend it to others. I have become good at masking because of all your courses so far.

Thanks for the excellent explanation on these new features in LR & ACR.

Super dope. So much value in these videos. Thank you.

A home rune, as usual. Thanks, Blake. (Love the T-shirt!!!)

The precision you can get with this update is a nice feature. I do wish it was as intuitive as it was originally. Grab a grad filter, drag it, go to luminance mask and drag the slider to target the tones. SO MUCH easier

When I was asked to beta test this I knew it was a game changer!!! I've been attempting to get them to add the white balance tool to the mask options along with the temp sliders.

Great work I loved both videos about your presets. Thank you B.

It’s amazing! I love what Adobe have done with this new release

Best explanation so far, thanks 🙏👏

I find the New Masking features in LR and CR to be phenomenal, but there’s one issue I’ve noticed that I haven’t seen anyone mention, maybe it’s only me that notices this, but the issue is that when you’re making these adjustments with the masks in LR & CR, it is not using the same full Raw data it would be using if you was just editing in the basics panel, curves, HSL, camera calibration…etc. I know because I tested it by making an adjustment in the basic panel, then resetting and starting over again and created a linear gradient mask over the imagine and used the same settings I used when I edited it only in the basic panel. The first edit with the basic panel clearly looked different, it used more Raw data information than it did when I made the linear gradient mask adjustment. So It seems like when you’re editing with masks it’s editing it almost like a jpeg(but obviously better), but it isn’t using all the same raw data that it would be using if you just edited it in the basic panel. So I would like to know your thoughts on this. Thank you! P.S. i figured out a way to edit only the Raw data, and that is by opening up the image From LR or CR into PS as a smart object, then go to select > smart object > and click on > New smart object to create a second smart object layer. Now you can double click on the layer and it opens up in CR so you can edit different parts of that same full raw photo, and create masks in PS. Doing it this way uses all of the Raw data. Or that’s what it seems like to me. Anyway would love to hear your feed back! Thank you!

Cool! :) Have a nice weekend!

Photoshop should have a Project Mask Saver along with their Channels Masks Saver. That way you can go back to those created Masks, even if you've ditched the Channel Masks?

Some very goods points have been raised, especially near the end. Is the next step for Adobe to program in an auto-analyze step that spits out that series of ranges/masks (ie: mids, shad, highlight, etc) so you can then work faster by taking each of the AI generated masks and then modifying the specific sections that have been pre-selected (with adjustments of course). In other words, just taking a great tool to another level in an effort to cut down processing time and achieve results faster. As Blake says, he goes to PS to get those final steps that make the photo great....so why wouldn't Adobe allow him to stay in camera raw (or LR) and do the same thing ? The border between LR/PS and camera raw continues to get fuzzier.

Adobe is probably trying to make scales be more color depth independent with the 0 to 100 scale (black to white), whereas 0 to 255 made sense when we only had 8 bits per individual color (RGB). 255 decimal being FF hex, or 11111111 binary. So with the 'newer' 16 bits per color or 32 bits per color, the 0-100 scale is effectively in percent and makes more sense than 0-255. The delicate arch image is great, but to me the foreground bowl looks like is is lit by another light source from above, perhaps an alien ship is vertically descending to land...

Shadows adjusted your highlight mask?

I find that the selction covers way more than I want, even if I wiggle the range sliders. The old Lightroom was better, in my opinion, for small area selections.

Can you transfer your created Raw Masks into Photoshop for use with Photoshop's layers, when also working with jpegs too?

I use silver Efex pro. How would I integrate your new course with silver Efex pro ?

If you switch to L.A.B > Curves> Channel, Lightness ~ the scale is 0 - 100. Adobe is using more tools that use the LAB Lightness mode.

Can we save the Raw masks as Channels or something and use them in Photoshop?

Thanks for this. Just out of interest, how come you use the Camera Raw interface rather than LR? They share all the same features right?

Awesome power...but terribly slow to access by comparison with the older tools. Most of the time i find that i am 'relighting' and drawing attention to specific regions of my images with a simple radial gradient, set to enhance exposure, sadows and reduce highlights. I have a preset for this. The new masking function forces me to select the Mask, then teh Radial Gradient, then swith off the frankly annoying Overlay, tehn choose the settings before applying the preset. Why on earth can't it just remember the last settings you used, and reapply them?! Even autotoggling teh mask to 'off' would be a start. What am I missing?

Is it just me or do the luminance masks seem much less "feathered" than the previous range masks? I find the gradients of luminosity range to be fairly harsh in comparison. Or I could just be a moron... which is entirely plausible.

OK. Excellent, but way too fast. You should ... pause ... when clicking on critical links and icons. This is a gee whiz presentation. Slow down and we can learn a lot more.