This Lightroom MASKING TRICK makes your Photos POP!

[@ThePhlogPhotography]

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[@samking1930]

another gold tutorial...thank you!

[@enricopascucci4802]

It's interesting that Tony Kuyper, the inventor of the Luminosity Masks, suggests in his site a similar trick in PS. He selects the basic midtones as mask, and applies a Curve adjustment layer with a drastic S-curve, getting what he defines a 'Fuji Velvia effect'.

[@dougbraz5843]

As always, learnt a lot watching your videos - thanks!

[@ThePhlogPhotography]

Thats great to hear, thank you!

[@amitkumar1606]

Toll !! Sehr schön gemacht. Danke für das Wunderbares Video ❤

[@ThePhlogPhotography]

Vielen lieben Dank!

[@Eugene-Braack]

Excellent! This is super-useful.

[@2202flo]

the knowledge shared on this channel is always worth watching, great technique :)

[@ThePhlogPhotography]

Thanks a lot!

[@mustangshelby2740]

Bravo - simple tool , i used to do dodge & burn but this method is very effective controlling the midtone evenly . Excellent tutorial , your exercise is really good , nice and clear subject not confusing like other teachers.Thanks . again .

[@ThePhlogPhotography]

Thank you so much!

[@the_rat_run]

That is impressive! Thanks Christian.

[@michaellanoue9156]

Another amazing tutorial. Thanks.

[@Hannemanneke]

Thanks a lot for this video! I’ve really learned about the possibilities of the mask functions by your videos 👍

[@rmanuelb]

Great video. Thanks for sharing

[@rrr46060]

great tutorial Christian

[@samelogio7441]

I like what you did with the mid-tone luminance range mask. I previously did this type of edit in Photoshop with a luminosity mask created with the TK9 panel. I would prefer to do this on my raw file instead. Thank you for this great lesson.

[@ThePhlogPhotography]

Doing it in Photoshop with luminositiy masks is the way to go if you want high quality, ultra precise masks! I love the TK Panel :-) Sometimes I'm just lazy and rely on Lightrooms masks to do the job in poorer quality and hopefully nobody will notice :-)

[@scandinavianthinking1251]

Christian, You have illustrated briefly how to make the foreground and the background appear with a slight sheen by using Luminance Range Mask of the Lightroom. Then the wooden stake and the forests are getting luminous with a glimmering light. Your inspiration of mid-tones contrasting effects is brilliant and helpful to me. I am so thankful to you for your outstanding presentation! I learned more from you. Thank you so much for your beautiful and spectacular photos!

[@ThePhlogPhotography]

Thank you so much for the kind comment, always happy when people can learn things from my videos!

[@Jonathan.Aubert]

Amazing job !!!

[@euripedesbrasil3704]

I love it

[@IsmailKhan-qx5gw]

Thank you sir i learned alot from your tutorial 🙏

[@ThePhlogPhotography]

Very happy to hear that, thanks a lot!

[@DanYosua]

Great tip with that midtones mask!

[@ThePhlogPhotography]

Thank you!

[@sunmoon9x6]

Thanks for your great job. Please teach us more about color calibration.

[@csvapeldoornjeugd3853]

Really helpfull!

[@bjartewergedahl5824]

Thank you very much for yet another great video. You really make those landscapes pop. Is it a reason you chose to crop the image yourself after doing the transformation instead of using the 'Constrain Crop' check box in the bottom of that panel?

[@ThePhlogPhotography]

Thank you for the comment! I usually prefer to crop myself to have some more control over it

[@mattia.astorino]

You should try to edit HDR merged photos with HDR edit on, this brings the editing to another level, plus every mobile screen is HDR (and socials now supports HDR avif images).

[@ThePhlogPhotography]

Thank you for the comment, unfortunately, I dont have an HDR display at the moment, but I will definetely check that out in the future!

[@SergNikiforovGordeev]

Thanks for the great lesson, Master! Why do you highlight the sky through the color range and not through an intelligent sky mask? After all, sometimes there may be blue objects and surfaces on the ground. You will have to do an extra operation to edit the mask by erasing it.

[@ThePhlogPhotography]

I just wanted to target the blue parts of the sky to not affect the white clouds in a strange way, otherwise you can of course use the sky mask to be a little quicker! :-)

[@aftereight8341]

Very good job, Christian, as always. I highly appreciate all the details of your process so the things looks very easy to pick up. If it not a secret, where did you get this scenic shot?

[@ThePhlogPhotography]

Thank you so much! This was at the Lago Inferiore di Fusine in northern Italy, close to Slovenia

[@alansarpy]

great video... I just find that luminosity mask in photoshop produces less artifacts .then this method in light room

[@ThePhlogPhotography]

Thanks for the comment! You're totally right, for better quality Photoshop is waaaaay better!

[@summerfazed]

Ask yourself how an image makes you feel. It’s personal preference but I liked the natural moody shot. I mean it’s a dead tree stump…

[@harrykaravias4823]

When you merge all the hdr RAW images, is the merged file RAW?

[@evanwilliams4351]

It creates a DNG file (Digital Negative) which is a type of RAW file, it still gives the ability to process it like a RAW file 👍

[@ThePhlogPhotography]

Sorry for the late respons,e but I guess you already got the answer by evanwilliams4351 :-) its in fact somekind of raw file!

[@horandestudios]

Good on the mid tone. Would be nice to go faster and don’t waste time over explaining.

[@ThePhlogPhotography]

I try to explain in detail so it gets clear what my intentions are and why I do things so it hopefully gets easier to understand for beginners

[@tonirowsell2996]

​@ThePhlogPhotography thankyou helps me alot 😊

[@Don_terrenos]

Did you use focus stacking on this image to get the sharpness all around?

[@ThePhlogPhotography]

I did not focus stack on this image :-)

[@sepp9876]

Sorry, but I think this is horrible. You took away the whole natural look and lightning. Clarity overdone and even applied to the same area multiple time on different layers (because you love the soft look ;). This image just looks overedited and lost all the natural beauty of photography now. Less is more. Just my 2 cents.