This Masking Tool Doesn't Get Used Enough

[@danielaargandonalowe9764]

WOW MATT , Your photos are just breath taking!

[@garykanston]

I recognized the third photo - beautiful farm in Vermont. Had an opportunity to visit there this past October while visiting the area!

[@i-primeproductions1517]

Subtracting with the linear gradient is a fantastic idea that I have not tried. Looks like it works amazing

[@Smoothblue90]

Thank you. I am often selecting a background mask in Lightroom. And then having to use the brush tool to add or subtract to what Lightroom thinks the background is. Watched this yesterday and today used it and it works great. Thank you.

[@johngrant765]

Thank you. Works very well when Lightroom won’t select subject correctly, particularly if you have multiple subjects.

[@quirkworks4076]

One cool tweak on the brush tool when selecting objects is that you can keep the brush size small initially, for selecting the edges of something, and then AS YOU ARE BRUSHING you can increase the brush size to fill in the big middle sections. So cool!

[@elizabethhicks322]

This is by far my favorite mask. It is sooo great for landscapes. In the mountain scene at the end, you could also subtract the luminosity of the lower part of the mountain. With the tree, you could subtract the color blue and with the wedding dress you could subtract either the luinosity or the color of the railing. Any choice, of course works better or worse depending on the situation. I still have a lot of trouble getting tree lines against the sky to look good. Thank-you so much for doing these videos.

[@lifeandlandscapesinecuador]

Thanks for the info. I have not been using this tool in LC. For some reason I forgot about it. Thanks for reminding me.

[@gabeatv]

Maybe add a color range mask or a luminosity mask for that wedding dress? Great video!

[@CostaMesaPhotography]

Always a fan of your presentations...useful, clear, and above all, helpful and relevant to many common editing tasks!

[@russstamp5965]

Another great free tutorial! I've struggled with inverting masks since LR came out with the new masking tools. Duh, "Duplicate and Invert Mask." So, that was a bonus for me. And, of course, the "Object" mask was new to me as well which will be a great time saver from what I was doing in the past to make selections. Subtract sky on the trees-so simple but certainly opened my eyes! Love your teaching style and have for so many years! Thanks for this one!

[@MattKloskowski]

You're very welcome!

[@rolsonn]

Great presentation! I can see so many uses for the object selection. Thanks!

[@ionutvlad]

Excellent, Matt! I never realized that the Select object mask has also the Rectangle select :). I used this mask, but in 'brush selection mode' (the default one, I think). Another cool thing I didn't know is the The show overlay modes for the mask - the "black and white" is very cool!

[@Topgunphoto]

Love this new masking, your videos make it so much easier to learn. On your 3rd picture, that's a great location, Jenne's Farm in VT. Motif #1 for VT

[@JanieP53]

Matt, thanks for this video! I learned a lot from it! These tools keep evolving faster than I can keep up with!

[@garretmurphy4544]

Thank you so much, I learn something new :)

[@Julius_S]

Spot on!! I use this with everything from weddings to events to landscape to architecture - incredibly useful!

[@simplesimon755]

Very useful info. Another great video. I was surprised at how the linear gradient at the end of the video suddenly made the rainbow in the photo pop out. I had not even noticed the rainbow until that moment. Pretty cool stuff. Now to check out your Adaptive Presets video. Thanks.

[@janetbonner2100]

This helped me so much, I can't wait to go play with my photographs. This has made the most sense to me, thanks so much for your free tutorials.

[@warricksmith5178]

Agree that object selection is a truly invaluable tool. I use it often to extend or refine inadequate selections of sky or subjects. And I often intersect it with luminosity or color range to provide more precise masks in many other situations, like leaves against a sky, or like the part of your bride's dress that was partially obscured by stair railings. Powerful stuff.

[@bigbigsquid]

Awesome! Thank you Mr. Kloskowsky

[@TC_Conner]

Great tutorial Matt! And I agree, Adobe has really upped their game with masking! (BTW, I'm really enjoying, and learning a lot from your Inside The Composition course! I'm 40% complete.)

[@martinlennon4673]

Thanks Matt, Good tutorial, helps me a lot. Martin.

[@Greg_Ashley]

Very informative. Thank you.

[@keithsimpson8676]

Very good video Matt. I'd forgotten about that tool.

[@betht224]

Thanks!! This is awesome!

[@marierouble1191]

Fantastic video on the AI making. I'm new to presets and my question is how do you save a AI preset and still be able to use the sliders. Thanks!

[@MattKloskowski]

Hi. Just make a preset. Nothing changes about how they are used even if it has an AI selection in it.

[@urbaneplanner]

Interesting video - I think some of this could also be done using channels in PS to make fine selections. Obviously the masking is easier but I was thinking for example of that red flower with spikes - there may be good contrast there in a channel that could allow a clean selection

[@MattKloskowski]

Hi. Photoshop has about 10 ways to do everything. In my opinion, channels are never the way to make a selection with the modern tools we have. Just about every selection option we now have is far better than making a selection with channels. But whatever works for you is usually always the right answer. Thanks.

[@lisaouellette2656]

Anything that keeps me out of Photoshop is a good thing. Thank you!

[@marclabro]

super tuto ! i didn't know that mode and way to use it

[@andyv6127]

Excellent! Thank you

[@alanplatt888]

Amazing video, thank you

[@clairearcher2549]

THANK YOU!

[@eddiegutierrezjr6226]

Don’t forget about using the intersect mask function.

[@adamdagosto570]

You are my new hero!

[@rhodesplayer]

Matt is one of the best!

[@gary.kenyon]

Thank you 🙏

[@MichalOlender]

awesome stuff!

[@BernieM]

I wonder what would happen if you used the rectangular object selection box over that whole bottom of the wedding dress. If it would just add the wedding dress and omit the railing.

[@BURTBROWN]

EXCELLENT!!!!

[@paulby88able]

Hi Is this object selected only work on camera raw on lightroom classic and photoshop Do it work on lightroom cc and mobile

[@crabsterk]

Thank you

[@bamsemh1]

I use lightroom masks almost all the time, instead of bracketing.

[@bobrutan4735]

excellent

[@tonitischer7240]

Question people can you export these selections?? can you open these in photo shop so you can delete backgrounds etc???

[@MattKloskowski]

Hi. No the masks can’t be exported but Photoshop has auto masking for most of the same things

[@hurleygreen927]

TEACH, MATT, TEACH! LOL

[@RewDowns]

Next step is opacity sliders!