Create better looking photos with this (not for beginners)

[@garym3407]

Thank you so much for helping me to understand these brilliant blending techniques, no more HDR for me in future. I am very grateful for your time and patience in making this tutorial.

[@karlsammut1020]

Clear and insightful tutorials with solid command of the English language

[@srikantnandakumar]

the very best tutorial on youtube about luminosity masking technique. thanks so much

[@ashemoto]

The reason your tutorials are so clearly instructive is that you include verbal instructions, which help to understand the whys as well as the hows of the entire process. Absolutely superlative. Many Thanks

[@claytonjeffs7649]

Thanks Steve. I have been using photoshop for years, but after watching some of your videos I now realize I haven't been using it very well. Thank you for finally demystifying luminance masks for me. I will be taking a deep dive into more of your videos.

[@SteveArnoldPhoto]

Thanks Clayton! It's great to know this helped 😃

[@marablemorgan8292]

Thank you, Steve!

[@just36]

Excellent Video Steve thanks! Slowly slowly I am getting there! So much to learn.

[@SteveArnoldPhoto]

You're welcome Graham, glad this one is helping you get there 👍

[@robertberthelot1911]

Thank you very much for teaching me you are the best teacher

[@SteveArnoldPhoto]

Thanks Robert! 😃

[@collinanderson3432]

What an excellent explanation, thank you Steve.

[@donaldmckay4964]

Brilliant stuff Steve Many thanks for sharing your knowledge

[@SteveArnoldPhoto]

Cheers Donald, thanks for your feedback 😃

[@sporter555]

Fantastic! Steve. Very well done explanation of a powerful tool. It helps when you repeatedly verbalize the keyboard shortcuts as you go. Easier for us to follow and memorize them. Great job! I just subscribed.

[@giselawinter2267]

Great video. I plan on using what I learned on my own images. Thank you. So well explained too.

[@SteveArnoldPhoto]

You're very welcome!

[@basavarajkudasomannavar4512]

Very informative

[@srg3798]

Yes, This one is really clear and easy to understand. Thank you

[@paultutton9443]

A very clear and concise tutorial Steve, making a potentially daunting topic all the more accessible. Well done! 👍

[@KeithDadey]

Great stuff! This will apply to a job I am just now starting and I am sure will help tremendously.

[@SteveArnoldPhoto]

Cheers Keith!👍

[@davidthomas670]

Superb Video , I could follow this one and understand it thank you.

[@SteveArnoldPhoto]

Cheers David, glad to hear it 😃

[@sarkarpappu]

Thank you. As always very useful and informative.

[@SteveArnoldPhoto]

👍

[@josephstanski5180]

This is sooooooo good. Thank you for enlightening me about tip #1.

[@SteveArnoldPhoto]

Yeah! Great to hear Joseph! :D

[@chrishill2489]

starting to get my head around it all now but if i watch the vlog another few times and take notes it will help...... another great vlog mate and done at a pace slow enough for me. what i have leaned is watch it on a big screen and not my tablet, it helps lol. :-)

[@newborntraveller1525]

Thank you, Steve! Helped me very much.

[@tobywoolgar9517]

Great tutorial! I use lightroom mostle for masking but i know photoshop is much better for doing it. I will definitely try your workflow!

[@SteveArnoldPhoto]

Thanks Toby. Lightroom is good, but once you get to grips with advanced masking in Photoshop it becomes so much more powerful! :D

[@GMC43]

Fantastic as usual mate 👏 just what iv been waiting for. I need to get out and take some pictures now and give it a try. Thank you 👍👍

[@johnnykempo]

Great stuff Steve, it's beginning to sink in now. I just wondered why you seem to use curves adjustment mask for changing brightness of selected parts as dragging the centre point up for instance seems to make it it rather flat. Why not use brightness or levels or exposure adjustment mask? Also is it possible to use one adjustment mask on top of another using the same Alpha channel selection?

[@user-ij5mv3kj9n]

Thanks a lot for your good tutorials. But is it possible to up-load your sample files ? We want to following to your videos with them.

[@AJPeaPod]

Great tutorial. I am new to this so very informative. I do have a question. I can't figure out how to "clear" the layer mask from the curves adjustment. How do you do this? I can't find anything except deleting the layer mask. Probably easy for others who are more experienced. Thanks

[@SteveArnoldPhoto]

Hi Jane, great question! Click once on the layer mask, then on the keyboard press Command+Delete (Mac) / Control+Delete (PC) to fill the mask with the current background colour. If you press D first, it resets the foreground and background colours to black/white.

[@AJPeaPod]

@@SteveArnoldPhoto Thank you for your quick response!!! Appreciate it.

[@awad80]

nice

[@SteveArnoldPhoto]

thanks! :)

[@Andy_Gat]

Super new to this, what are you clicking to reset that layer mask to all black, cant seen to find a shortcut

[@vincentspratling365]

Great tutorial Steve . Do have a list of keyboard shot cuts for tutorials?

[@SteveArnoldPhoto]

Cheers Vincent. Actually I don't have a list, that would be a good idea for a cheat-sheet kind of thing though...

[@vincentspratling365]

@@SteveArnoldPhoto It would be handy having a cheat sheet. Cheers Steve

[@dickroadnight]

What I have been doing is using threshold masking to let me edit or paint skies partially obscured by trees (or hair)... It gets complicated when you have to refine the edge of the mask to prevent fringing. I cannot find a video about it.

[@davidschacherphoto]

Great video. At 7:52 in the video when I apply a white brush to the mask it is not confined to the selected area. I wonder what I'm doing wrong?

[@softmochee]

did you figure it out why? same problem for me.