The HIDDEN Power of Luminosity Masks in PHOTOSHOP CC

[@amdenis]

You know how there are a lot of tutorials out there, most of which you learn a little something if you are lucky-- this is not one of those. I have used Photoshop on and off for many years-- since about 1989; and this video has a lot of very useful information, which I had not specifically learned before... equally important, you put it all in usable context and examples. Thank you so much for sharing this, and I wanted to say, AWESOME JOB!

[@TikiTim]

This is why you're always my favourite tutorial channel. Great work dude! Keep it up 🤜🤛

[@susanfromvermont4843]

So much information! You clarified several things about making luminosity masks. But I am so glad I can pause the video because I cannot keep up with you! Now all I have to do is figure out how to create an action...

[@Ani_Skevi]

Awesome as always! You make Photoshop learning so easy.

[@Puptrait]

Found this clip through fStoppers. Really digging your delivery @tutvid, especially your shotgun approach towards demonstrating the technique in action. Just hit the bell, looking forward to watching future videos.

[@nurb2kea]

Try 'Lumenzia' luminosity panel/extension. Less layers used with better results + individual luminosity, color, saturation, ...etc. masks. Also exposure blending, what you did here + luminosity mask sliders. That's the leading luminosity panel and leaves no wish open.

[@Nehalem01]

Hey Nathaniel, I so appreciate this video! It really helps getting my pictures to pop. Unfortunately, the download link for the Photoshop action seems to be broken, would it be possible to check it out or put the actions on your website? :) Thanks a lot! Edit: Just in case someone else has the same problem: The link is not broken, KZbin's redirection system is. You need to copy the link and paste it in a separate window or tab. Simply clicking or Ctrl-clicking the link won't work. Hope that helps :)

[@Sidweddingphotos07]

Not able to download the action anymore. Is that working? very useful video which helped me to add the contrast n color also. Something which most of luminosity mask tutorials don't tell.

[@victtormphprivatecollectio4232]

Hi there! I cant download the action, is it still available? thanks!

[@Nehalem01]

You need to copy the link and paste it in a separate window or tab. Simply clicking or Ctrl-clicking the link won't work. Hope that helps :)

[@aminaghaei9090]

Very very useful and awesome🔥 And special thanks for the action❤

[@tutvid]

Thanks for watching!

[@mohamedaoufi5666]

Great video as always, just a question can you make a video about how to use this for product photography and use it for some ad or anything that shows product and how to play with light and shadows. Thank you

[@tutvid]

I can work on a video for that. Right off the bat, the ability to have this level of control in selecting highlights and shadows is very useful with many different types of product photography :D

[@mohamedaoufi5666]

@@tutvid i love you man

[@danpop1714]

bro! And i told ppl I'm good at photoshop.. 15yrs of photoshop.. guess I am still learning. Thank you brav

[@domellis7044]

At 2:15, how did you bring up that magnified window with a shortcut? Be keen to find out how!

[@tutvid]

That is an app for the Mac called Zoom it

[@nikhild9918]

Arguably one of your best tutorials! Loved it!!!!!!!!!

[@andrekaled]

I had no idea it could be done inside Photoshop. I've always used Lightroom for that cause I couldn't live without that mask. Is SO useful and powerful. Love the video.

[@tutvid]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@gr8_22-15]

Excellent vid. I use a panel called lumenzia by Greg Benz, but for people that don't know about luminosity masks this is great.

[@frank1crayon]

Nicely done. Just a hint, which I suspect you may know, clicking the first icon in the icon tray of the channels window will do the selection for you.

[@sascha.gregori]

thanks for this valuable lesson!! One thing that doesn't work: I have a focus stack. So I alligned all the layers, blended them to a all-in-focus pic and then converted the two layers into a smart object. from there on I made the 8 Alpha channels. Now the two smart object copies wont open in CameraRaw. Is this because there is a focus stack behind?

[@macmcmillen6282]

Super powerful. Can definitely see how useful using luminosity masks would be. Your file size at the end ballooned up to 1.6 GB. Would you then flatten the image to bring the file size down to a more reasonable level? Thanks!

[@LumpyHippo]

Psb

[@respectall7714]

brother whats the mic it is? thank you

[@susanfromvermont4843]

Your handling of luminance masks sounds very good, so decided to use it. I went through the video again, and everything was fine until I started to try to mask for the shadows. Here are some questions: When you were constricting highlights, you used ctrl-shift-alt-click on RGB and continued that for all subsequent new channels. But when you were constricting shadows, you used ctrl-click on RGB in first step, then ctrl-alt-click RGB after that. Is this correct? When you were constricting highlights, your next step was click on new channel, then Ctrl-I. But when you were constricting shadows, you changed the steps for subsequent constrictions to ctrl-alt-click RGB --> new channel --> ctrl-D. This would result in a black screen, so I tried using ctrl-I as on the first procedure for shadows. Is any part of this incorrect? I tried several ways to do the shadows but results were inconsistent. Cannot figure out what is the right way to do the shadows! You were moving fast, but I used pause and took notes. Hope you can help me with this.

[@AMLunaMax]

Thank you for the awesome action! I do Real Estate Photography and this is changing my Twilight shoot process! Very much appreciated :)

[@oneavenuemedia2001]

what is the focal length used in the photo?

[@tutvid]

I shot this on the 50mm Sigma ART lens on a 5D MK IV (full frame)

[@BURTBROWN]

I've been wanting to know more about luminosity masking for some time now... This is terrific!

[@tutvid]

Thanks!

[@custom240sx]

OK am I missing something here? I followed the tutorial EXACTLY, but when i hit ok to apply changes in camera raw to the layer the changes are made to all the layers and the luminosity masks dont then change anything in the selection bc all the layers have now changed? Whats going on? I cant find a solution on google for this

[@iamtommyok]

Awesome video as usual but one thing I really noticed was the attention to detail on your video composition. Dude, you have 2 tabs with both name and handle and perfectly cropped video in a panel area of photoshop. Very slick and again, great video and awesome creative den with the bike on the wall.

[@tutvid]

Thanks, Tommy! I love my cycling :D

[@tichcang]

it's great video and very helpful in using luminosity mask, but can you check the action download link again, i think it's not working, thank you so much

[@mrrcassidy]

Congratulations. You're a Photoshop whizz. I have no idea what you just did.

[@mrrcassidy]

@@shadsantee3238 I'm sure it must have been. Except I didn't understand any of it.

[@brucecooper8559]

Nice explaination and I like the application to the various adjustment layers... very helpful, thank you! 🙌🏻 What would the midtone masks be good for?

[@tutvid]

Basically any time you wanted to add something to the midtones. Think about your histogram. All that stuff in the middle is midtones. So let's say you wanted to increase the contrast of that stuff and not blow out the highlights and shadows, you could do that with a midtone luma mask. Maybe you want to increase the brightness of the midtones to add punchiness to the image. Midtone luma mask. Maybe you want to increase or decrease the saturation of the image, but you don't want your shadows to get milky or contaminated with color. Midtone luma mask. I'll start working on another video for the midtone luma masks. They're super helpful in their own rite!

[@rodshelley1170]

Got the action, can't wait to play with 'em! This is wicked cool stuff and looks like it's going to solve a few problems for me! Thanks bro!

[@tutvid]

Glad you enjoyed it, Rod!

[@Ronin760]

Great video. I cannot imagine Take 1 being more entertaining than Take 2. You had me laughing with some of you comments. Great tip and advice. I regularly use luminosity mask but never thought to constrain them multiple times as you did. Great effect. Thanks for the action - that will help a lot.

[@tutvid]

Thanks, Frank! I think I was annoyed enough with myself that I was more relaxed while actually making the tutorial in some strange way

[@ChalLeOye]

Loved it. Thanks a ton. ❤️❤️😘🙏

[@tutvid]

Thanks so much!

[@EightTwoFourWeddingStudios]

Thank you so much for this video!! I'd love to see more of these! They're so useful!

[@tutvid]

For sure! Thanks for watching!

[@majky358]

thank you, one of the best tuts about luminosity masks on youtube

[@DanielVazquez]

I don't know why YT recommend me this video but I watched the whole thing. This is what I call an advanced PS tutorial.

[@jeffreber3205]

More luminosity vids please. Really learned something today.

[@PopGoesTheWorld2023]

Awesome videos you make! Question: That video of yourself in the top right corner. It looks like a regular photoshop tab. Is it done in post or is there a plugin or something for that? Imagine being able to stream youtube tuts directly in a window inside photoshop. That would free up some screen when following along your videos.

[@cyberwasp461]

Great tutorial. Can also be used for color adjustments also!

[@tutvid]

Absolutely! You can use it for tons of different things

[@mhuddlestone8209]

Awesome Video, learnt a heap from it. A question that is some what related... you opened the file initially and Adobe Camera Raw opened. I open my files through Lightroom using "open in photoshop as a smart object" is this the exact same thing? i noticed the screens look different. Also as an FYI there is an issue with your discord link. Keep the great work up.

[@audunseverin]

This was a game changer for me. Thank you!

[@dabble778]

Great tutorial, getting the details on LM editing. BTW I found out how to reduce the play speed to 75% as your vocals were too "coffee" for me ;-)

[@Mcxee]

Wow this is a very powerful tool, i won't lie i didn't know this tool but im glad i do now 😄😉

[@tutvid]

I'm glads you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching!

[@69dadawg]

Is the action for the luminosity mask still available, clicked on it and it didn't do anything.

[@Nehalem01]

You need to copy the link and paste it in a separate window or tab. Simply clicking or Ctrl-clicking the link won't work. Hope that helps :)

[@hertzdesigns9166]

Killing it with the videos keep it up

[@tutvid]

Thanks, man!

[@LuckyDay09]

This is an awesome video!!! I dont know about yall but i like the detailed videos. I like to understand what and why we are doing it this way and how it works. Thanks again!

[@compositae01]

Great info, I appreciate it. The only drawback is how fast you were doing everything. We can always use the back button and see it again, but it defeats the purpose of explaining something to an audience with clarity and class. There is also the issue of unnecessary information merely intended to look funny.

[@dsulvadarius]

Is that a stock image?

[@sweetscience1988]

Im a beginner at photo editing but i know once I understand this technique my life will be alot easier in PP thanks for sharing!

[@sathwikkanneganti]

Man your videos are so so so incredibly informative! The views don't say it but damn so helpful! I actually love the fast speed of your vids

[@palpytine]

Leave that clarity slider alone... dehaze does a much better job on this sort of image, even if there's no obvious haze. It'll also give you the contrast boost you wanted. I also try saturation before vibrance when there aren't any skin tones or already highly-saturated colours in the image that I want to protect.

[@MichelleLevasseur]

Thanks for this! Oh and believe it or not my thanks comes with no strings attached :) You DON'T have to change anything about your channel or the way you speak or the tools you use. I trust your channel and I appreciate you taking the time to do a second take - must have been quite frustrating to realize the mistake made in the first one!

[@murielannnissen1042]

After I made the masks and tried to open new smart object - my image did not open in Raw? What did I do wrong?

[@ronaldaviso7309]

How do you magnify in photoshop? Same as what you did.

[@lorenzbruckner189]

Thank you very much for your helpful post Nathaniel! I'll internalize your way of adjustment, and I'll subscribe and watch more of you stuff! Greetings from Austria

[@sonjon1000]

Amazing tutorial, and many thanks for the action, very powerful stuff.

[@tutvid]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@rafaelohana5812]

Thank You for sharing this amazing technique

[@miriamnovoa4368]

It would be great if you do a tutorial with food, for food photographers : )

[@annavoloshyna3524]

Thanks for your tutorial! Very useful technique!

[@bernardjackson4974]

first time i tried this it worked perfectly but now for some reason when ever i have the 3 smart object images when i adjust the H image it applys it to all of them . ( the L and original what am i doing wrong ???????

[@tutvid]

You need to right-click the smart object and choose "New Smart Object via Copy" and not just do a Ctrl + J copy. Ctrl + J duplicates an instance of the Smart Object so when one changes, they all change. Creating a new Smart Object "via copy" creates a new Smart Object altogether. Hope that helps!

[@bernardjackson4974]

@@tutvid saved my life thanks !!!!!

[@GermanLoLGam3r]

5:58 For some reason I actually really like the picture like this . Just needs to be cropped.

[@tutvid]

I like it there as well. Part of what I love so much about capturing and editing photos, so many options!

[@theukstutorial268]

Will definitely try this

[@gsrorive]

TIL the reason why some of my more complex work files require to be saved as PSB. I use channels to select and mask everything that’s not a clear edge (hair, depth of field,...). I never figured masks / saved channels could be the culprit. Here I was turning everything to raster later on during my edits. 🤦🏼‍♂️

[@alberthita7712]

Wou man! Congrats for that amazing video!!

[@tutvid]

Thanks, Albert!

[@JohnyLupu]

This is really helpful thank you

[@candelabra7764]

This man is a treasure.

[@Gaarinks]

thank you ! tested on my projects, fantastic !

[@SwissplWatches]

Fantastic video! Thank you

[@tutvid]

Thanks, Swiss!

[@jupamoers]

My OCD is coming through when seeing this perspective xD Just a bit to the left and the bridge would be perfect.... 172 MB is quite a high amount of RAW data...how many megapixels does this photo have?

[@JesusFreak200100]

Ily for the action

[@dmgphotos6364]

Love you for this

[@ashish3120]

Awesome Sir

[@bollox05]

Great vid, ease up on the coffee. 👍

[@amateursontour507]

Very awesome Tutorial :) Thank you so much for it!

[@AbuHamzaArtStudio]

very nice tutorial

[@The_Villi]

Great Tutorial! Thanks a lot!

[@s.f.8447]

Thanks for the action!!!

[@phenoconcepts]

*Road to a million SUBS. Woooooooh*

[@phenoartwork5931]

:-)

[@tutvid]

SOON!

[@rosieisbored]

Wow this was so useful, thanks for a great video!

[@barbarahansen-duncan4105]

Love it!!!!!

[@tutvid]

Thanks!

[@hylee1811]

Thx man. Love this tutorial.

[@jomac_ph]

Im a simple guy. I see tutvid video, i hit 👍 🙏

[@tutvid]

When I see your comment, I just have to hit the heart, too

[@RobCollins2015]

I have never understood why Photoshop doesnt have lumenosity masks built in (rather than through channels.) If you like lumenosity masks it is good to get a Photoshop panel for them - I use Lumenzia but there are plenty others....

[@tutvid]

Same. It would be so useful to have a one-button Luminosity mask generator built in. If I can do it with an Action, surely it can be programmed in, right?

[@agiverreviga4592]

Basically an HDR photo?

[@tutvid]

Yes in so far as it is literally a "High Dynamic Range" image. Our eyes can see much more dynamic range than the camera sensors. This way you can choose how much dynamic range your image has AND not get the nasty halos, fake Clarity-looking effects, and artifacting that we saw when bad HDR was trendy.

[@incantationGoat]

Thank you kindly for sharing the action without making us sign up for something.

[@ironmanjakarta8601]

Nathaniel gives out advanced Photoshop techniques for free that would cost $1000s at your local Uni.

[@tutvid]

Life is more fun when everything doesn't require a newsletter sign up :P

[@AlexNiedt]

Fantastic, thank you!

[@niklaslill]

hahaha 😂 nearly fell out of may chair, loughting about your joke about the downloadble aktion

[@pressxtojason]

Incredible man!

[@idrischemali5991]

Thats a very smart way to retouche an image 👌👍

[@JohnJJay]

That's it, I'm going to ask KZbin for a 'Love' button. 'Thumb-up' in such cases feels like luminosity masking my gratitute away. Thank you!

[@Knil11]

Great vid thanks!

[@tutvid]

Thanks, Orion!

[@MrCherbis]

канал "alfa 8" временно не доступен....

[@SteveStrummerUK]

#Nathaniel - I've watched a lot of KZbin videos about Luminosity Masks but yours is by far the best out there. I now feel I actually understand what's happening, which makes it much easier to use them 'properly'. And a free Action! I am in your debt kind sir :)

[@Paradox1P]

Wow really good video

[@tutvid]

Thank you so much!

[@foodstudio5339]

Hi There !!! А bit difficult lesson, but very useful

[@tutvid]

Thanks for watching :D

[@RewDowns]

9:22

[@allthingsdandan.2711]

amazing.

[@nicholas1956]

When you said "it will feel like you know more about photoshop then your friends when you start playing around in there” I thought about that none of my friends know how to use photoshop at all😂 I am the only one who edits photos in Lightroom and photoshop🤷‍♂️

[@ayagamal3963]

What's lightroom used for please?

[@nicholas1956]

Aya Gamal Lightroom is like the OG color grading program from adobe.

[@flexferum]

Amazing

[@tutvid]

Thanks!

[@petermarshall5450]

Very enlightening. However, it would have been more effective had you spoken more slowly.

[@petermarshall5450]

After working with this for a few hours, it's fantastic. This is a great video!! Thanks. Peter

[@brianm.butler8799]

I'm always impressed how much information he can pack into a video. Either pause the video every minute to catch up, like I do, or Settings > Playback Speed > 0.75

[@jp99575w]

Yeah Big Time

Great done @Tutvid ;-) but you must know that you are out of date with this particular tuto lol ;-) LUMENZIA does everything for you and very quickly now ...ANd the power of LM in ON1 photo raw is today amazing with a complete control of the Density of the masks&layers ;-) I was used to see this kind of masks créations a few yars ago^^ Anyway, great explanations, thank you for your years work :-) Greatings from France :-) JF

[@frown5664]

It does everything for you. But there are people that would like to broaden their skills and knowledge in photoshop. Instead of letting a computer do everything for them.