Lightroom's Mask Anything Tool Isn't Used Nearly Enough!

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In this week's episode we discuss the mask anything tool in Lightroom and how it's not used nearly enough.
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[@Tupunaforever]

Your very good at explaining things, to the point, clear direction, not to fast not to slow, thankyou.

[@slymar66]

Can't agree more. Thank you Mark, you are wonderful!

[@SaulShiffman]

I agree the new masking tools are AMAZING. In these examples, I believe you could accomplish these mask refinement tasks even easier by Intersecting the too-crude mask with the color you WANT, rtaher than working so hard to substract the colors you don't want...

[@rscottadams7082]

Exactly right, Saul!

[@Slvlrmn]

Or subtract color you want and then invert..? )

[@jpmissdeNice]

@@Slvlrmn That's exactly what intersect does

[@davehallock3102]

The only problem with that is using his green grass example, there are many shades of that green grass so many selections of green would be required. So it would be a wash I suppose.

[@rscottadams7082]

@@davehallock3102 It’s pretty easy actually. Just draw a box around a section with the various shades of green and it will include them all in the mask. Then use the refine slider until you’ve grabbed what you want.

[@lyndarodig8707]

I’ve not seen the remove by color selection - that’s awesome! Thanks for sharing this! I’ll be applying this starting today!!!

[@brucedelorme5026]

What a great tool, and you showing its secrets are the 'Cats Pajamas'. Your editing VLOGS are amazing and easily followed. Great job Mark.

[@francescagraff5337]

Another cracking tip, Mark. Thank you.

[@timdokter3893]

Very helpful video, thanks Mark! I use the object tool, but never used the color range.

[@rolsonn]

Cool! I too never thought about masking and remove by color range. Thanks, Mark!

[@drpepper998]

If on the sailboat example you zoomed in and used the brush instead of the marquee you could just select the sails, then clean up around the edges with the brush tool.

[@tonyschaffer3853]

Have you ever talked about printers? The difference from screen to paper is profound. I’m sure you’ve solved this and am curious if you do an episode on it (if you haven’t yet)?

[@gregtowns549]

Thanks for showing this Mark. I mostly use the other masks with the intersect tool. Have to give your technique a try.

[@brianconnollyphotos]

Great tips Mark but surely when using the radial gradient example in the second image, you'd intersect with the green of the grasses to get a far more precise selection, rather than just covering the area and leaving it at that?

[@nancyq5821]

I already use the select anything tool a lot but the subtract color range with the shift key is game changing! Thanks!

[@mediamannaman]

Soooo powerful. Wow. I need to practice.

[@thomastuorto9929]

Thank you sir! Perfect timing as I just went from LR6 & AP that I was completely happy with) to LRC/PS because I did a reset on my computer. Only a few simple edits so far in LR. Looking towards being able to target luminosity & colors in PS eventually.

[@user-qq4tc7nj9t]

Another great video!! Thanks Mark.........

[@sjedouglas]

Funny story with the object select. It literally shows a plane being masked as the example and when I went to edit a photo of a plane, it made a really hash job of it (most likely because the plane was a similar colour to the dull sky). Other times, though, it's amazing how spot on it is.

[@jolakedra2998]

Wow! That's fantastic! Thank you for this tip! ❤️

[@ReidThaler]

For the sails, how about object selection and intersect with color range? Then you wouldn't have to subtract so much.

[@uncle0eric]

I definitely think this would be easier. The "intersect with" functionality is so useful!

[@mikephotos225]

I agree that the intersect function is great. For this one, I would have used color range to eliminate the area between the sails and then simply brushed out the boat

[@MrRonald7712]

Mark, Thanks for this useful tip. Once again I had to chuckle again. The reason for this is that in almost every video you post on KZbin there is always a small slip of the tongue, or that you sometimes have to say things twice. In my opinion, that makes your videos nice to watch. Until next time. Greetings Ronald from Deventer (Holland)

[@DuaneCaldwell]

Thanks for sharing these tips on refining the Object selections. I've struggled with the tool a bit, but I think this will definitely help.

[@victahh281]

This is great. I do use the object selection tool, bur always adjusted using the brush tool. Selection by color is a game changer.

[@johangrobbelaar7331]

This is just fantastic Mark - something I wasn't aware of! Thank you so much for this video!!

[@For91Days]

Super helpful, thank you!

[@nateamp5204]

thanks for the advance tool !

[@kristinl.raught3776]

Awesome! So helpful, thank you so much!

[@brycepinson8641]

Wow. I have totally overlooked object selection. Thank you!

[@jonnyroids1482]

Another great video mark. Have a lovely week.

[@ericoconnor5416]

Great info, my thought for you is instead of subtracting the colours you don’t want to include in the mask, you could simply choose the ‘intersect with’ option and select the red and you’d have the results you wanted a lot faster and easier.

[@easy56wedge]

Haven’t you done this video before! I seem to remember you changing the sails and boat. Regardless, great video and info as always. I’d figured it out some time ago by accident and then couldn’t recall how I did it! Your video brought it all back - but I still took notes! lol.

[@mazdub]

I thought the same but it was same image different masking tool, wasn't the colour picker. First I've seen this used this way.

[@rlfisher]

Lr masking is getting better and better. For an increasing set of my images I don't feel the need to go to Photoshop. [Great seeing you in Indonesia this week!]

[@andrewkeir2282]

I love this video and all your Lightroom tip videos, I am new to this channel. Loving your work.

[@andrewmurphy2688]

So simple but I had no idea you could do this. I was subtracting by using the brush and that was always such a pain and never very accurate.

[@garyjones2299]

How long have we had these features? yet we are still finding new ways to use them. Have you tried selecting “Colour Range” to find that a large areas that you don’t want are selected, then “Intersect” with the “Brush” tool and brush in the area you require. Amazing.

[@cgan2013]

Very much appreciated this tip/tutorial!! Thank you!!

[@MrTucano1]

the cats meow. :) I have a co-worker that says that all the time

[@seanmichaelroper3587]

This is very helpful!

[@RichardBO9]

Mark, many thanks for showing us this functionality. Much appreciated.

[@danielschmaderer]

I had to pause to see if this also worked with mobile and tablet use and wouldn’t you know it, it does for tablet users. This will absolutely help with my editing workflow. And yes Mark, this is absolutely the cats pajamas. Couldn’t agree more.

[@PMCN53]

That's absolutely fantastic tool Mark... I agree, LR has almost taken over PS

[@chantallabelle8571]

Thank you for the demo.I am using Capture One and I was not sure if I should switch to Lightroom or not. But I find that these kind of mask selection are even easier to do with Capture One (with the new version).

[@SteveMcClanahan]

Thank you! Really no reason to use PS these days.

[@LenShigemoto]

Thanks!

[@nevvanclarke9225]

I agree should be called what it is. It is a fantastic tool. It's one of the reasons why I've stuck with light room is masking is so much more intuitive and useful than capture one. I did have a play on capture one but it just did not suit landscape photography as well as what this does in Lightroom. I actually don't use Lightroom. I use the Lightroom web version not the classic. And literally my editing time has gone down by 2/3 in time because of masking it actually saves you a lot of time and when you have a camera that has decent dynamic range it really does change the game not saying exposure isn't important but you can get away with some slightly under exposed areas saying in a foreground and it's no problems fixing it

[@alyamaut]

Excelente mi amigo 🤘🙂🙂

[@trishf29]

Brilliant! Thanks Mark😊

[@saskiacole6537]

I love all these cats pyjama tools and that you concentrate on just one tool at a time. I can't take in much more anyway.

[@dougstevens9973]

On the photo from Spain when you used the "mask anything tool and subtract" - couldn't you get about the same result by combining radial gradient + "intersect color range"?

[@notallaboutmeministry3285]

I use the masking tool.

[@FR-mq2xc]

Thank you. I waited for your new vid. 😊

[@alpabopo]

Great info and useful tips

[@brunopatrel8850]

Hi Mark thank you so much ! I did not used so far the object mask -Now i will -but i have another question with the brush tool : what is the actual difference betwwen flowrate and density parameters (especially when we want to decrease a bit the impact of the brush) ?

[@MagnitudeReviews]

My editing style is fundamentally built on lightroom’s modern masking features. My photos would look so different without it, and so much worse.

[@dpwrightjr109]

Hi Mark, thanks for another great video. I have a small question- when you did the sailboat edit would you also need to change the reflected color of the sails as well or is that too small to matter? Thanks!

[@rscottadams7082]

On the boat sails, you could have much more easily just held down the Opt/Alt key and “intersected” that object selection with color range, and picked the sails! Much easier than subtracting all those zones.

[@rscottadams7082]

Ooops! I see that Saul Shiffman beat me to it below! He’s right on the money.

[@philadler9171]

Why wouldn't point color work in the sailboat example?

[@JeffreyTadlockPhotography]

I've been loving the improvements to masking that keep coming to Lightroom, but it seems I've underestimated the Object Selection tool!

[@chrisburns4909]

Cat’s pajamas?? Ha ha! I love it!

[@TamaraTB]

Your LR videos are incredibly helpful, although I believe you are using LR Classic and I use LR regular. Anyway, I’ve been doing a similar masking color thing, but the steps are a bit different. I mask a slightly less defined area, and then use the refine color dropper to select the specific color I want to work on (say, that green grass for example). I can select multiple colors and then adjust just those colors in the broader area I have masked. I’m adjusting only the selected colors that I I grabbed and identified with the dropper. All other colors in the masked area remain unaffected. So I don’t have to subtract from the mask, I’m just telling LR the specific color to work on inside the masked area. Does that make sense? In any case, I love watching your videos. I learn a lot each time I view one, and your relaxed presentation makes it all very less intimidating.

[@davidkrye]

Great information

[@sstokoe2301]

I own a Fuji camera but I use ON1….I have been trying to convince my sister to buy the XT-5 but she has heard that Lightroom does not work well with Fuji RAW files. I know you shoot Fuji so I was hoping you could provide a bit of information on this. I would truly appreciate your opinions!!

[@25eazi]

I knew you were going to say yhe object select tool. I use it regulary.

[@aps-pictures9335]

Curious how photoshops AI masking would handle those sails, but good tips

[@jeffnewman8261]

"It's the cats meow"

[@charleswessels3053]

Could you select red in the object and then invert and remove other colors instead of selecting all the other colors? Or maybe im looking at what you’re doing the wrong way

[@David-ge3px]

I use this mask all the time...I believe you could have just masked the sails alone in the first instance.

[@richardtierney7724]

Great? If you have the latest version of lightroom..... if you don't you are pretty much stumped. So its back to Photoshop and use your skills using some "old" tools etc.......

[@zepplinrox3]

Why not use color mixer and just select the red of the sails

[@JohnMacLeanPhotography]

because this is Lr, not Ps.

[@zepplinrox3]

@@JohnMacLeanPhotography ... the third panel in the Develop module (default setting) in my version of LR Classic 13-2 is the Color Mixer...

[@JohnMacLeanPhotography]

@@zepplinrox3 you're correct. I still haven't gotten used to the changed panel names since HSL disappeared from the main screen.

[@JohnMacLeanPhotography]

in any event, he showed that when you do a global HSL color selection, it selects more than just the sails' red color. It's also picking other reds throughout the image. Point Color would probably isolate it, if that's what you're referring to?

[@19Photographer76]

I could ask why you just don't use Photoshop but...your target audience is much larger in the Lightroom realm. I'm thinking you use PS 'a lot' behind the camera.

[@PaulDurdle]

I find PS much more convoluted and a much higher learning curve than LR, and I don’t think I’m alone in that.

[@joybarron6889]

Because photoshop is much harder to use.