CRAZY EASY way to Fix mask Edges in Lightroom

How to fix edges of masks in Lightroom and camera Raw. Colin Smith shows you how to remove halos and get perfect edges on your masks. Youll love this simple and quick tip
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[@photoshopcafe]

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[@brianloeffler6551]

I tried this technique on nighttime photo, and it completely cleaned it up where there is no more silhouette in the photo. The photo looks sooo much better!! Thanks for showing this technique as it is very much appreciated!!

[@joetagg1961]

I was looking for a simple solution for this. Thank you!

[@richardduckworth859]

Super helpful video. Thank you sooooo much !

[@lesladbrook4508]

Really useful, thank you Colin.

[@jimmyhawke]

Thanks for the info! I'll definitely try it on some files I have.

[@gregscarcella519]

It worked for me! Thanks

[@travelbygungahlia]

thank you. been struggling with this for a while. love your style too. easy to learn and listen to,

[@lindabeck2965]

Absolutely the best instructor on Lightroom and Photoshop anywhere. Just fantastic advice and assistance.

[@photoshopcafe]

Thanks so much

[@garybaehr1982]

Colin-your videos are always so informative and useful. I’ve had this situation many times. This will be helpful. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!

[@photoshopcafe]

Glad to help

[@hani7up]

Great video Collin, cheers!

[@JimEmbury]

Excellent! Thank you.

[@RalphNardell]

That’s super helpful, thank you!

[@debbiegould4548]

Thank you Colin, your tutorials are always easy to listen to and understand, keep up the good work.

[@photoshopcafe]

thanks

[@kapilbhallafoto]

Very useful, will try

[@AlexanderTrizuljak]

Great, Great, Great! I just needed it. Thank You👋

[@michaelcohen4453]

Thanks Colin. As usual, clear, concise and very helpful.

[@photoshopcafe]

Thanks for that!

[@markpollon3138]

I was literally dealing with this exact masking issue with foliage and water at sunset issue yesterday. Perfect timing! Thanks so much.

[@photoshopcafe]

glad to be on time

[@trevtog]

This will be VERY helpful! Always learning great things from you. Thank you!

[@photoshopcafe]

Thanks so much for checking it out!

[@rodshelley1170]

As always great stuff, Colin!

[@photoshopcafe]

Thanks Rod!

[@bab008]

Awesome tip!

[@aquilifergroup]

Thank you. Learned something new

[@titusnixon]

This was very helpful. Thanks

[@randelltuttle143]

Your videos are always useful. Thanks for the post.

[@photoshopcafe]

Thanks so much

[@williamcollins5417]

Needed this yesterday....now fixed...Thank you...

[@photoshopcafe]

I wish I was a time traveler. If you have a Time Machine, feel free to reach out!

[@eoslove2022]

This method of dealing with LR mask edges never occurred to me,,,so simple and effective! Thanx Colin.

[@photoshopcafe]

I’m glad to help!

[@Sidweddingphotos07]

really useful video!

[@melissam731]

This tutorial was extremely helpful!! Hair or fur is the hardest item to mask.

[@illimiteddesign5496]

This is definitely beautiful! Thank you for your time

[@photoshopcafe]

I’m so glad to help

[@JoeHTX]

Awesome tip Colin! Thank you! I've had trouble with those edges for as long as I can remember.

[@photoshopcafe]

glad to help

[@tonyblake8841]

Thank you, thank you, thank you. This has been a frustration of mine. I have tried radial masks instead of subject masks sometimes. Can work on some images but not all. This is much better.

[@photoshopcafe]

So glad to help

[@JayJay...]

Great vid!😃

[@lillirod]

Sweet! Thanks for such simple fix for the halos!

[@photoshopcafe]

right?

[@MisterDavidH]

Another helpful video. Thanks!

[@photoshopcafe]

thx

[@waltjedziniak6875]

Thank you, Colin! Great tip!

[@photoshopcafe]

My pleasure!

[@swashy58]

so simple and easy .... just really what i needed ..... thaks photoshopcafe

[@photoshopcafe]

anytime, easy is refreshing, right?

[@mjmdo07]

as always useful

[@RS-sh1cb]

Very nice video. Thank you very much!

[@newjersey1029]

Simple and yet very effective, thanks mister Ph CAFE

[@patrickmcsweeney2021]

Thanks Colin. Great tip.

[@photoshopcafe]

Very welcome

[@sandykreit1752]

This process is very helpful, thank you!!

[@photoshopcafe]

You're welcome Sandy!

[@vladepast4936]

Outstanding!

[@psteelman4448]

Wonderful---thank you Colin!

[@photoshopcafe]

My pleasure!

[@burple65]

Great tip and it works really well in this example. I'll have to remember this one!

[@photoshopcafe]

You can always come back to it

[@thom56morrissey]

I haven’t had the skill to fix this in the past without going into Photoshop and spending way too much time fixing. Thanks for the tips!

[@photoshopcafe]

Glad to help

[@martincregg]

Definitely learnt something here.

[@JJRAIA-es9cj]

Something I’ve always struggled with… and now a simple solution. Thanks, very helpful

[@photoshopcafe]

You’re welcome

[@jennywiseman6971]

Great! Thank you so much.

[@russandbarbnighbert3462]

I can’t tell you how much I appreciate this one😊

[@photoshopcafe]

I'm glad!

[@raewebb6365]

Oh Wow. I just edited something yesterday and said, how can I get rid of that ghosting. This vid is very helpful

[@Keenonhang]

Defo useful. Thanks. Subscribed 🎉

[@photoshopcafe]

Thanks so much. That means a lot!

[@KenToney]

What a great tip, shared with our club!!

[@photoshopcafe]

Yeah! Awesome. Shout out to your club. Whats your club name? Feel free to share a link

[@birdie399]

Very helpful, as usual, thanks.

[@photoshopcafe]

thx

[@YardLimit]

I learn something new every time I watch your videos. Thanks!

[@photoshopcafe]

glad to hear it

[@larryreich5395]

You just solved a problem for me. Thank you.

[@photoshopcafe]

Glad to hear it

[@juliodumbobk]

great video. I love your channel. It is very well done and very informative

[@photoshopcafe]

Thank you very much!

[@davidmurphy7847]

Love your tutorials.

[@photoshopcafe]

Thank you!

[@andremookhoek6533]

heel mooi en duidelijk

[@WanderFeetChronicles]

What a simple yet beautiful tip! Thanks Colin, another day I learned something new from the menu at the Cafe. Big gratuity coming your way! 20% at least.

[@photoshopcafe]

So much thanks for your ongoing support!

[@robertmccullough2981]

Thank you

[@user-en4cu1hw2k]

Thanks for that colin

[@photoshopcafe]

Anytime

[@vdpijll]

tnx again

[@peterfreeman2475]

Great tutorial, was wondering how to get around that precise issue I encountered recently.

[@photoshopcafe]

happy to help

[@MisbahSaleem]

Awesome sir

[@photoshopcafe]

Thanks!

[@totox691]

Great tip

[@photoshopcafe]

Glad it was helpful!

[@aledianin]

Your tutorials are always amazing..short and straight to the point. ❤ Do you have videos on masking pets? ❤

[@photoshopcafe]

Thanks! I don't. I really should get some pets and take lots of pix of them :)

[@henriksorensen1]

Hi Colin, exelent video as always ! I have a question about masks that I think you might be able to answer: The "white balance selector" is only available in the basis panel for for the entire image, and NOT within a mask - so how do you set the white balance within e.g. a object mask or a mask made with a brush ? E.g. I often do photos of shoes, and in the post I select the shoes with a mask to fine-tune colors, but I would realy love to have a white balance selector here - but theres isn't one ! ;-)

[@hafizasadankon86]

thanks

[@josediazh3890]

Muchas gracias.

[@photoshopcafe]

de nada

[@chrisbartlett8146]

Thanks, this something that was frustrating me.

[@RohanGillett]

When people say stay tuned till the end of the video for something, I go straight there.

[@earlkey2905]

Your so awesome and learn a ton on your you tube. I'm an old film photographer and having to learn more about photoshop and light room took me screaming and gnashing of teeth lol

[@photoshopcafe]

I feel you! I’m from the film era too

[@alervold99801]

I can’t seem to get rid of the demarcation line around my subject even after trying this method. I’ve dbl checked the exposure isn’t high. Suggestions?

[@tonyblake8841]

Thanks

[@photoshopcafe]

Thanks so much!!

[@bobkillen8396]

This was gooder than bubble gum. Thanks so much

[@photoshopcafe]

You’re welcome 😊

[@ffoeguk]

Have you solved the opening of mages from LR to PS it seems to of stopped working om my Mac with the latest updates

[@photoshopcafe]

Hmm I’ll have to test that

[@bainebikerx3170]

I went back one version of photoshop and that solved the problem.

[@rogerlove7588]

Right, the newest version of Lightroom (and PS) won’t allow you to open images in PS. The workaround I used was to open via Bridge, the save and import to LR. A pain, so I went back to the prior version. Guess we’ll have to assume Adobe will fix this in the next version. It’s a pretty significant bug.

[@MicahBBurke]

Still learning from you, Colin!

[@photoshopcafe]

Hey man. Thanks! See you at MAX

[@TotalOpel]

What I'm looking for is to be able to great straight lines for a mask in Lightroom - basically like if I could use a lasso tool to create a mask. My problem is that I often want to mask a white object that against a white background. Any of the "smart" masks can't get it exact and if I use a brush I can't get the lines straight enough 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@photoshopcafe]

There are some things that only photoshop can do shh. Don’t tell the Lightroom peeps. They might get jealous

[@colingmaccoll]

Thanks Colin, I've got a question about masking in LR if you could cover it in your course that would be awesome. If I take a photo of a tractor in a field for example, I select the 'subject' (tractor) and refined the mask. I do my edits to the tractor and it looks great. I then auto select rhe sky mask and do my adjustments, the sky looks great. If I want ro select the background AND foreground (ie everything else in the image) how do I do that? If I only had one mask (the tractor) and selected to create a new Inverted mask that would select the background, the foreground AND the sky.....I'd love to know if there was a way to exclude an existing mask from a selection. I really hope that made sense! Thanks Colin.

[@photoshopcafe]

Yes, I will be covering this for sure! I would duplicate and invert, then subtract the sky in this case

[@colingmaccoll]

@@photoshopcafe I look forward to your explanation in the upcoming series. Its really one of my areas of frustration. You make all these great adjustment masks but I struggle to isolate or combine them to best effect. Thanks Colin.

[@EdMatthewsPhoto]

Create a new mask by selecting the subject (the tractor), then add the sky to the selection, then invert the combined mask (tractor + sky) ... this will give you everything else.

[@colingmaccoll]

@@EdMatthewsPhoto thanks, that's what I was struggling to figure out how to do, I thought there must be a way to combine/subtract the masks you've just painstakingly created! I'll look it up. 👍

[@adejones2340]

I've recently joined Adobe to use Photoshop where I have a monthly subscription, can I use LR also with the package ?

[@ffoeguk]

yes if you have the photography package, you also get web space as well

[@photoshopcafe]

Yes, you should have the photography plan which gives you photoshop and Lightroom for $9.99 a month (US)

[@adejones2340]

Thanks, I'm paying £19.97 per month@@photoshopcafe

[@user-zk4cq6ck2h]

is this also done in photoshop? with camera raw ?

[@photoshopcafe]

Yes! Exactly identical

[@barrysharoff6537]

Colin, will this also work to get rid of halos around buildings, your subject, etc. caused by sharpening or other edits when editing images? Regardless-- how did you sample that spot in the sky that you used to fix the masking issue? Being able to get rid of halos in LR would save lots of people lots of time by not having to go into Photoshop to remove halos, and would be particularly helpful for everyone who hates Photoshop because of its complexity.

[@photoshopcafe]

The brush in auto mask is constantly sampling

[@barrysharoff6537]

@@photoshopcafe Hi, again, Colin. Thanks so much for answering one of my questions. If you look at my post again, you'll notice that I actually asked you two questions. Could you also answer my first one having to do with using your technique to get rid of halos around edges, such as buildings or lamp posts, etc. Thank you in advance.

[@photoshopcafe]

@@barrysharoff6537 I will work for halos generated by the mask. Halos generated by adjustments, could be fixed this way if they are on the mask layer.

[@barrysharoff6537]

@@photoshopcafeThank you very much. I appreciate your taking the time to answer.

[@tonyblake8841]

Hi Colin, Further to my comment a couple of days ago I have been looking at purchasing the Masking Tutorial. My question is as a bird photographer I sure the same applies but what I have been able to find out is it seems pretty much non-wildlife. Can you offer any thoughts or comments please. If the content is on par with the simplicity of this video I feel sure it will be ok. Maybe I just need a nudge. Thanks again.

[@photoshopcafe]

Thanks for the thoughtful comment. My techniques are genre agnostic. I choose examples based on what I personally have shot. It really doesn’t matter, they work on anything. If you want to send me images to work with, I’d be delighted

[@photoshopcafe]

I LOVE wildlife. I wish I had more opportunities to shoot more

[@tonyblake8841]

⁠@@photoshopcafeI’m pretty much one dimensional with my photography, birds, birds, birds or birds. As I often shoot further away than I would like , sometimes sky backgrounds and sometimes dark bushes I usually mask the bird and lift the exposure. My biggest haloing is if I mask the subject then duplicate and invert the mask. There is no feathering across the boundary. Eliminating shadows from nearby branches also comes in to play. I will purchase the masking tutorial as it will be a concise summary of what you can see across KZbin and I anticipate it will be done so I can even understand it.

[@tonyblake8841]

@@photoshopcafeI am so lucky in Brisbane with over 300 varieties of birds within a 30km radius of the city. In two years I seen over 150 varieties and photographed most of them. Some jut ID shots but a couple of ok shots in there.

[@tonyblake8841]

Hi Colin, I purchased your masking tutorial and after three videos learnt a lot. Imagine what I’ll be like be the end. Is there a mechanism to ask questions about things in the tutorial? Also I put a couple of questions on your video from about a month ago regarding monitors. Any chance of a response. Thanks.

[@szilban]

👍🙏🙏🙏

[@dutenn]

You are appreciated! Thanks

[@photoshopcafe]

Thank you too!

[@drip3084]

Great info... thanks once again.

[@photoshopcafe]

You’re welcome

[@justray65]

Really good info for sure..Is it just me I don't see the feather ring in ACR..

[@hovikabrahamian3801]

Absolutely, this video Like other of your videos is really very USEFUL, Thanks for your valuable TIPS.

[@photoshopcafe]

thanks for your kind comment -Colin