Matt, thank you so much for this 'in plain English' tutorial! I found this 4 years ago and had to go searching through my youtube history to find you again (I changed operating systems and consequently lost all my presets I'd previously made).

Use the brush with the auto mask active, and bring the luminosity down and paint carefully. Works.

Thank you Matt, very helpful! Keep creating!

F you its not working

To avoid the issue, I do the opposite to the mask by making the sky lighter towards the horizon. I use a graduated mask for the sky area, so the darker effect is 100% applied to the top part of the sky and it is maybe around 25% at the bottom, therefore voiding the halo that can appear.

I've always wanted to understand the programming logic/challenge that causes these halos. Is the fringing present before the masking, but the exposure adjustment makes it more visible? If not, why does it suddenly appear? And whatever the cause may be, my simplistic view is that the fix is just a case of the application determining whether the pixels affected are part of the sky or the subject and adjusting them accordingly. If that's not possible, wouldn't the recently introduced generative fill be one option for automatically removing the halo?

Dear Matt Your tutorial gives me a new way of thinking in organizing and editing the photos. Thank you very much for the tutorial.

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As always, great stuff, Matt! Thanks for the update!

Still prefer quick mask because it can be used with multiple tools. For example in QM mode you can brush, make a hard selection, then brush some more. It's way more versatile.

I never realised people still use adobe ps 🤷🏽‍♂🤷🏽‍♂, long time Affinity user here 😊😊

thanks Matt for this presentation. It would be nice to have "edge detection" checkbox for the adjustment brush, as we have in LRC. Do "content aware> generative fill" and "create new image" (like midjourney) take "units" from our adobe photography subscription account ?

I wish Adobe would correct the obvious errors identifying a subject in shorts and T shirt as a nude figure and preventing Gen Fill from functioning.

Ai does not do a good job with hands and feet, and even can distort features on a face. Not withstanding the former limitations, it definitely has value.

Thanks, Matt!

Thanks Matt … well explained and demonstrated 👍

Excellent video!!!!

The contextual task bar used to annoy me, but now I find it pretty useful when working with masks and doing the generative fill

Due to computer problems, I was unable to run any Lightroom updates for a while and was finally able to update yesterday. Wow! I used this and it's a new toy and I kept trying to find images to use so that I can play!

My version of photoshop is not showing any of those new features! mine is 25.0.0, which version you're reviewing ?

I am having an issue with the adjustment brush and curves, if I use the adjustment brush it is usually with curves. The default curve it applies Has a composite RGB 127 to 190 adjustment. This is no problemas I usually want to add a composite RGB adjustment. However, it also adds a 127 to 190 adjustment to each of the R, G & B channels. So before it is useable I have to click on reset. Then I am able to adjust only the composite RGB. Is this only me or have other people found this and think it is an issue.

Your LR basic training that we got in Amherst New Hampshire years ago, was exactly what we needed to quickly become productive LR users. It's ironic that PS finally added the adjustment brush which was pretty much a missing tool for so many years. Thanks for showing us that in today's video! Jeff Hall (Retired from Souhegan High School a few years back)

great like always!

Matt I figured out why the remove tool keeps adding more of what you’re trying to remove at the edges of the image. Most likely you have cropped it. Since light room keeps the whole image and is only showing you the portion you want to see with the crop you are in essence only removing a small portion of what you’re trying to remove. The tool thinks you’re trying to rebuild it with something a little different. Took me forever to figure this out. Go back to the full image to remove it then recrop it. If you send it to PS to remove it it only sends the crop of it and that’s why PS removes it so well. Had you tried the same remove on only a portion of the item in PS it would have acted the same.

Lacaio da Adobe 🩶

When I was an imaging Techn and Supervisor at National Geographic, I sure could have used many of these new Photoshop tools and AI . I could do now with one click and 5 seconds what either I couldn't do or took hours.

Hi Matt, I love your videos and have been a fan for more than 10 years. After many, many years as a photoshop user, I recently switched to Affinity Photo, any chance you could start doing some videos on their software? Thank you for all of your work.

Useful update, thanks Matt! AI aside, it's hard to see where else Adobe can take Photoshop, although their sharpening tools have fallen behind those of Topaz and Nik. Might be an opportunity for a comparative sharpening tools tutorial?

Adobe. Those bastards.

Question: why did you bring down Exposure instead of Highlights? To my eyes, I see much better results in skys by bringing down Highlights, but maybe I'm missing something.

Matt, please do not take this a negative comment. Once again , as I have asked other that I follow on youtbe.........just how perfect do we have to make edited photos? I know this a personal pet peev. I consider myself a "reasonably accompilished amauer" and most yours and other youtube guys are pros needing to sell photos for a living. Please try to demomstrated quick easy fixes for us amatuers. I would also like to see more about adding "text" to photos. Keep up the good work.

A.I is going to kill photography is like saying electronic music is going to kill live symphony, just saying.

Thanks Matt!!!

Cool😃 Thank you 🙏🏽

Thanks for this Matt, I'm not sure how often I'll use the selection brush but it's good to know it's there. I'm like you, I most often do all my edits in ACR/Lr so I'll not use the new tools in PS all that often.

A technique i use frequently is to brush negative clarity and sometimes negative sharpness with a large feather over the sky/foreground boundary - it can help ease the transition area. No viewer will notice the insignificant loss in perceived sharpness. I'll often combine this with a luminance mask selecting the highlights with further negative clarity, which can help "bloom" the sky light onto the foreground a bit, further obscuring any halo.

What are your thoughts on using the generative fill tool and having facebook tag it as AI generated?

how does your technique compare to using the sky brush that is in the sky replacement tool?

I wish that Adobe added a variable "feather mask" feature into the masking panel. That would bring masking in Lr to a whole different level.

Muchas gracias.

Love your shirt, just bought a new Gladiator.. my 3rd Jeep!

thats a nice trick.. thank you..

Best solution is affinity photo

Interesting. As with many things in PS, there are many ways to get the same or similar result. Up till now, I've gotten good very results in eliminating halos by using the clone tool, sampling from the appropriate part of the image, and using the darken or lighten blend setting as appropriate.

Thanks for showing this and thanks to the other commenters on their solutions.

Great tip. Thanks!

Very informative. Thank you for making this video :)

Part of the problem with masking in new skies is that photographers in editing are not observant to the fact that to attain a natural look the light from the sky rebounds off the ground which results in a gentle lightening gradation flowing above the horizon line at the ground. Then if any elimination of fringing is necessary you can go into Photoshop and use an added empty layer that is set at darken mode to use the eye dropper to select the sky tone and use the brush tool to paste that color over the white fringe. Set the brush at a small size with reduced flow. The fringing will disappear.