Luminosity Masks

[PRWIN]

Okay who is using Luminosity masks on there photo's. I have been looking at it and have found it interesting. Have been doing it to a degree and not knowing that I was doing it , just a different method

If this is done correct it can be amazing in landscape photography

[Flutterby]

Can you show us some examples?

[PRWIN]

It is a way of controlling your Bright, dark and mid tone area's in PS, just looking at it looks like you can also control the darkness of colors which I am very interested in . For eg you can lighten blue or darken just that color, there are a lot of different ways to do it, this is just another way to play in PS

This photo was done the normal way I do it, but in the end I ran a midtone adjustment mask



As you can see it darkened the midtones and left the lighter areas as is. There are other ways of doing it with selective color and darkening, Me I like to play

Here are some links

http://www.naturephotographers.net/arti ... 908-1.html

http://lukezeme.com/tutorials/true-lumi ... oshop-cs6/

[Flutterby]

Thanks. Although this is all useless to me as I don't have PS!

[PRWIN]

Flutterby

Most of these processes can be done in Adobe Elements as well

[ExFmem]

I know what I'll be doing this weekend.

[Mel]

I have neither... no Photoshop, no Adobe Elements.

But I must say that the lion posed nicely for you, PR

[Flutterby]

I have neither... no Photoshop, no Adobe Elements.

Me too.