The most common option is to tick the Show Luminance Mask box and use the red overlay that’s identical to the one you have with the Graduated Filter, Radial Filter, or Adjustment Brush. These tools make it possible to apply adjustments to specific areas of the image. More specifically, we’re talking about the Graduated Filter, Radial Filter, and Adjustment Brush. There are, however, three tools that allow for a bit more advanced masking. Recommended Reading: Understanding Layers & Masks in Photoshop Lightroom has a few tools that contain some sorts of masks but they aren’t flexible and can’t be used for anything else than that specific adjustment. What is a Mask in Lightroom?īefore creating the Luminosity Mask, you need to understand what a mask is. It’s a big part of Photoshop but not so much in Lightroom. Note: This feature is only available in Lightroom CC. There’s even a little-known way to create a mask that’s more or less the same as what you can make in Photoshop. This is only possible when using a Graduated Filter, Radial Filter, or Adjustment Brush. More precisely, it’s made using the Range Tool. Once you are there you must wonder where I am going with this given that my model is now green and the dress is not the same color everywhere.Lightroom has neither layers nor masks but there’s still a way to create Luminosity Masks. Then you can use the hue to determine the color you want for your object. You can create a circle around the object you want to change the color of. Let’s use the radial circle for this one. You can see the color of that dress is quite strong and only in a few clicks we will change the color entirely. Here is a portrait I took in Italy during a fashion show.

We are going to use it to change the color of only one element. Now the last example is a completely different way to use the luminosity mask. This is truly a great tool to have more control over what your tools are affecting. I also added another graduated filter at the very top to add drama to the sky. Here is the photo after with the Luminosity Mask, range at 69/100.

I will show you the graduated filter without the luminosity mask so you can see how it is affecting the mountain and create an odd over retouched effect:

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