Essential Luminosity Mask Tutorial For Beginners - Photoshop Guide
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- čas přidán 20. 07. 2024
- Luminosity masks are a fantastic way to start creating top quality, clean images. They allow you not just to blend exposures much more cleanly than HDR software, but also to take control over your entire workflow.
This beginner's tutorial will show you the basics of exposure blending, how to layer in Photoshop and which exposures to use in blending. You will also see the Easy Panel used in creating ideal 16 bit masks.
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Surely one of the best tutorials for learning Exposure Blending, love Jimmy's Art of Photography course also.
This is an amazing tool Jimmy! I've been using Lr for a few years and am finally starting to use Ps. I had to watch some parts a couple times, but was able to follow along using your sample images. You're an excellent and patient teacher. Thanks for the Easy Panel and your vid. I subscribed and am looking forward to watching other vids you've made.
I am a 100% self taught photographer and I have found my 10+ year journey to be a series of 'lightbulb moments' but these lightbulbs only turn on when I'm ready for them. I have visited this topic, and this particular video, in the past but put it all in the too hard basket. Lately I have found myself wanting to revisit luminosity masking but I was still struggling... until today. After watching this again, the 'lightbulb' has turned on big time and it all makes perfect sense. I am now excited for the next part of my photographic journey and I would like to say a HUGE thankyou for sharing your knowledge.
Thank you for this amazing tutorial. I feel I can finally start using luminosity masks. Subscribed and and will be going through your content, again, thank you.
The man is back !
Yup! So long waiting for his post 😅
Just ordered Raya Pro 4 plus the course. A friend recommended your approach for Astro. I’m looking forward to trying it on some bracketed landscapes from the last. Thought I’d check you out first and you’ve sold me within the first couple of minutes of your video, just your easy way of explaining.
Really looking forward to this Jimmy. I struggle to understand Luminosity Masks - so sure this will be of great help. Thank you
This is an awesome video for beginners! I downloaded some luminosity mask panels and I have no idea how to use them. Now I understand much more about this! Thank you so much!
You are the best Jimmy. I never get tired of watching your videos even when I already know what you are explaining.
What a fabulous tutorial. I have always been mystified by luminosity masks and afraid to even try them, but you really broke it down in an understandable fashion. Will definitely be looking at your software! Thank you.
Jimmy. Thank you so much for doing this video. I downloaded the easy panel a while a go, but never was happy using it. This video has explained so much on how to use it. Time to experiment. 👍🏻
You are a great teacher!! Thank you!
Jimmy, you are the best! Thank you for the comprehensive guide!
brilliant Jimmy. I get it now, and I understand how I can use this in some of my own images. I do quite a bit of night time city scapes and your last example makes it clear how to improve images there. Also I do lots of landscapes and like to blend skies, so your first example is very clear and helpful. up and running - off we go, thanks
Just giving the easy panel a test drive... this along with your helpful videos has opened up a new world! Thank you :)
Fantastic tutorial Jimmy. I was struggeling with LM so much that i would stop using it. But this is such a good explanation i continue! Yes I do!
Awesome Tutorial. I Love your teaching style!.
Amazing video. Very well conveyed and informative! I now have the confidence to try this myself.
Thanks for taking the time to make this tutorial. Very helpful.
Super useful tutorial and tools, thank you very much for taking the time to share it.
Thank you so much Jimmy for your nice tutorials! I love your channel!
I've today subscribed to your channel and it's fantastic. I'm quite new to photoshop and it's really exciting to see what can be done with this software. In the short time I've been using PS I have realised that it's going to take me some time to learn what's possible, it is however really enjoyable and it will help me enormously with my photography editing. Looking forward to watching all of your videos. As others have said you are a very good teacher and your videos are enjoyable as much as they are informative. Thanks for sharing what you know, it is appreciated.
Ok, you convinced me, i bought the raya pro 4.0 and the exposure blending course!
Thank you for the informative tutorial. Will be using for my future projects.
Thanks Jim, your tutorials are excellent.
you are back, nice to see you that post video again
This was incredibly helpful!
Great tutorial Jimmy, and fantastic tool thank you!
Super, super helpful Jimmy! Thank you!
Hi there Jimmy,
In this tutorial you mentioned that you have tutorials about single image luminosity masking. Can you tell me which tutorials you mean?
I loved this tutorial, learned a lot!
It's finally clicked! :-) I am up and running ! Many thanks Jimmy
Hi Jimmy. I like this tutorial - thanks. I have been thinking about the question you pose at around 14'25" relating to the ability within PS to make multiple passes of the brush to reinforce the effect of brushing in the selection. In my experience, this is related to relative "strength" of the selection made from the luminosity masks. In other words, if is use an LM where there is a sunset, with lots of highlights in the sky but also a good deal of darkening sky, and very heavy shadows in the foreground for instance, I find I can quickly recover the highlights with one pass of the brush and further passes don't have any impact, but that the darker sky will continue to be affected with multiple passes irrespective of the flow setting on my brush. I think of this almost like the LM's degrees of greyness being the driver of this behaviour - where my LM starts off the most white (in the channels panel rather than in the normal layer mask - this is the key), the brush has an instant effect, but as the degree of greyness (in the mask) increases across the sky, more brush strokes are needed as the pixels are covered by grey. It's like the LM is a neutral density filter. As the grey on the mask darkens, it becomes harder and harder for me to brush away the mask with my white brush but I will still be able to do it for any selection that is anything other than black on the LM (in the channels panel) as when the selection is loaded into the layer, only those pixels which are 100% black in the original LM will be the ones in the selection. This hypothesis is supported by your tip in the tutorial to pick a mask that is going to do a good job of grading the transitions - these are the masks with the greatest control, but some care is still needed and in some cases, with an LM that was a bit less contrasty to start with, there may be a need for some careful brush work after the selection has been deactivated. LMs are fantastic, and this tutorial is one of the best - thanks for your work.
Hi Jimmy, I have been your fan for a long time. I would love to see you updating new video at higher frequency and show us your work on astonishing landscape locations. Is this doable?
I have learnt so much from your videos, THANK YOU! I miss your Challenge Jimmy videos. They are fun and very useful; brilliant idea too. Will there be more coming? : D
awesome!. you are a great teacher.. ps. what is the box below the imac? thanks
This is amazing, Thank you Jimmy.
superb tut Jimmy
Great video once again, I am using the photoshop cs5 and not able to install the easy pannel , is there any work around ?
Jesus Chr***, Jimmy !
I consider myself a pretty experienced Photoshopper, using it since ver 4 way back in ... sometime ... But here I am - with my jaw hanging down, brought back to school.
I've learned a ton from you on Luminosity Masking and put some of it to effect the hard way = Channels and Levels. It would not have been if I hadn't watched your videos, I can tell you that. I may or may not jump the Raya Pro but Easy Panel will definitely go to begin with. Going to make that workflow soooo much smoother. I can't thank you enough for your tutorials and please try to find motivation to continue them.
great video! and i stopped at 14:07 and ran to your page and bought the plugin!! Thanks!!
Thanks for the much needed tutorial
Great Tutorial full of helpful information
thanks Jim and more tutorials on easy panel landscape, thanks very much
Love this! I love to Shoot Landscapes and this will make my life much easier :) Thank you Jimmy!
Great lesson, thanks!
I have to agree with Jimmy about getting lost if you haven’t played with masks n layers for a bit in photoshop. I was one that got totally lost when 1st trying to follow or understand Jimmy, thinking this was all to hard & a little disheartened. Once you play with basic layer masks in PS for a while Jimmys layermask panel / workflow WILL fall into place.
Thanks Jimmy for this video. I’ll be purchasing the full panel soon.
That's my situation also, just starting to play with EasyPanel2 and Jimmy's samples. The tutorial does make sense to me after using layer masks for the past while.
Hey Jimmy,
I'm a huge fan of all your tutorials and panels! thx!
at 14:15 you said, that you are not sure, why it is possible to reenforce the selection by multiple times of painting over. Isn't that just the case because the selection is like 60% in that region. So even a brush with 100% opacity&flow is just applied with 60% strength (based on the selection 'strength' locally) and thus it leads to a 60% grey on your mask? and if you paint over a second time, you just add a bit again? (opacity is 100% so it keeps adding the color of your brush until you hit 100% black)
greetings from Germany!
Thank you sooooooooo much for sharing such priceless tutorial
Thank you so much for this amazing tutorial. I couldn't understand luminosity mask until I watched your video. You are a wonderful teacher!!! Thanks!!!
Glad it was helpful! We've just released a FREE E-Book to help even further. Check out our Essential Guide to Luminosity Masking here: bit.ly/3mym4BF
Brilliant Jimmy!
Amazing tutorial. @ 15:10 you mention the black edging around the trees & said that it's easy to fix, but you'll keep it for another tutorial. Do you already have a tutorial like that or can you point me in the right direction to fix those issues? Really learned a lot from your tutorials. Keep it up!
I can't tell you how many shitty exposure blending/masking videos I've watched. This is the first one that has been useful and full of detailed information for the more experienced photographer that doesn't want to take a sledgehammer approach to photo editing. Thank you Jimmy!!!
Amazing tool!
Hello Jimmy, I do have a small question, I am looking for a tutorial about how to create the luminosity masks themselves, first to do them then to use the programs as your raya pro- These panels make me kind of crazy! Do you have any about the first steps of Luminosity masks only for one photo? Not an Hdr... Please let me know, thanks , Daniela from Uruguay.
wow wow wow. Thank you sir!
JImmy thank you for a great tutorial!
Great video!
superb tutorial..
Great, thanks!
This man is my hero
Good job legend 👍
Jimmy, I have to say that after watching a few videos I am completely lost with all your explanations! I feel that I am back at school in a Mathematics class. Your software looks absolutely amazing but because you explain what to do AND what not to do, AND all the different panels - free panels, beginners panels, intermediate, etc... , I just don't know how I can simply blend photos together. I thought the goal was to easily blend 2 or 3 exposures with a click of a button but this whole Raya Pro is becoming a very complex equation. It really is a shame because there must other people in my situation who want to buy your product but don't act because it's wayyyy to complex now. With Raya Pro can very easily blend 2 or 3 photos together? How? Thank you.
Hi Jim I requesting a link for the easy panel but the link never arrives thank you
Nice work
Hi, Jimmy. What is the brand and model of your Graphic Tablet?
When you say you have two - three different exposures, can you please clarifie if you mean they are bracketed, or adjusted manualy over and under in photoshop/Lightroom.
Cheers.
Most of the time it will be bracketing. Doing this manually can introduce movement between shots. I know for the last shots I did (Moonrise) even a 4 second gap made for alignment issues.
If we got a bracketing of the scene I see the advantage of using the luminosity mask applied to one of the exposures with the base exposure in the bottom. However, many times we have one exposure and some tutorials generates the different exposures based on copies adjusted with curves. In such cases, is there any difference if I just apply the masks of luminosity to a series of curves and test each one adjust better the photo? Usually, I create 6 curves with different luminosity masks levels and looking at the curves PS adjust the curve showing the levels only for the pixels after applied the mask indicating the luminosity level region that curve would adjust.
This is a better way to deal with single exposures: czcams.com/video/tiNCB3s6gt0/video.html
Hey Jimmy, where can I find the tutorial to remove the duplications on the trees caused by the wind you talked about? Thanks
Yes, I'd like to find that too!
That's very simple to learn
here you are ... awesome jimmy
Great video Jimmy. I've been using Easy Panel for a while and this video explains it really well. Just one question though - what would you say is about the maximum difference in exposure you can have between your two starting images before you start getting unrealistic effects in the final image?
There's no set formula, as long as your base exposure level is correct (not too over or under exposed) then for your brighter and darker exposures you should have to go any further that 1.5 stops.
@@JimmyMcIntyre thanks mate, much appreciated
Fantastic tutorials but I just can't make it work. I'm completely new to PS (using mostly Lightroom) and even newer to HDR and exposure blending. After watching your tutorials for some months I used the summer discount to get a hold on Raya Pro and challenge myself to blend some of my shots. Sadly I'm still rather confused about what does each button, and even with the tutorials opened I can't make it look nice and natural like you do... Back to practice I guess!
Hi there,
These things do take time, but that this is why I always recommend people purchase the course as well. You can save yourself months of work.
Jimmy McIntyre thanks for the tip! Will definitely look into that later. For the better news, I actually pushed through for another hour and managed to make what I wanted (some sliders confused me earlier and I was unable to get a nice result). There is still room for improvement, but it is definitely a huge step forward. Cheers !
Hi Jimmy!
I see the first time you create the masks (you choose mask 6), is from the brighter "layer 0", (minute 10:30), but the two last ones you create them ( you chosse mask 1 and mask 2), you do it from the darker "layer 1".... (minute 12:44 and 13:50). Why?
Using different masks gives us different selections to control. Sometimes you might want to make a small adjustment which is what mask 6 will give you.
Hello, I just purchased your Jimmy McIntyre Collection, which tutorial should I start for real estate photography editing?
@Jimmy McIntyre
Thank you for your custom. I strongly recommend starting with Exposure Blend Like an Expert and then moving onto The Art of Photography. both of these have vital information and tutorials on exposure blending interiors. Please make sure you watch all of the Expsoure Blend Like and Expert course. Each video is extremely important in developing your understand in exposure blending. And if you want a quick an easy way to blend interiors, pleas watch this video as an example: czcams.com/video/Ifoe0Qhj_DY/video.html
Jimmy sometimes my pictures end up a bit mirky grey and washed out after I edit using luminosity masks? Any recommendations of what I can adjust to restore? I’ve tried bumping up the contrast but it looks unnatural
Hi Allan,
Please watch some of my newer Challenge Jimmy videos where I teach a process called Matching. This allows us to blend and maintain contrast at the same time.
Hi Jimmy!
After watching several tutorials on CZcams, I bought your Jimmy McIntyre Collection collection. Is there a certain order in which you recommend doing the courses? And why? Should I start with The Art of Photography, The Art of Digital Blending, or Exposure Blend Like an Expert? Looking at the names, I would suggest Exposure Blend Like an expert comes after The Art of Digital Blending, or am I wrong? I understand the basics of Photoshop and Luminosity Masks.
Thank a lot! I'm really looking forward to start with your courses!
Hi there,
Thanks for your message. This depends entirely on your current ability in Photoshop. If you're new to PS, I recommend going through the beginner's PS course a few times. Then I would progress to Exposure Blend Like An Expert, watching and practicing the techniques in there for a while until you are comfortable. I would then move onto The Art of Photography, which is a bit more advanced in terms of post-processing. Finally, I would watch either of the two other courses, The Art of Cityscapes and the Art of Digital Blending, once I felt comfortable with everything I had learned.
I hope that helps.
Have a nice day
Jimmy
@@JimmyMcIntyre Thank you! I know where to start now :-)
Thank you for the video. Is the Castle image at 21:04 is your final edit or still some works need to be done.
No, there's still work to be done. Exposure blending is just the first step. Thanks.
@@JimmyMcIntyre Thanks a lot for the reply.. I have purchase your Raya pro years back, but hasn't used it..at present learning about the Photoshop..was always a lightroom user...would really like to know ur views on lightroom capabilities especially with merging of raw exposure and giving more control over the dynamic range in the picture combined with Range mask for Luminance & Color for radial filter, brush etc. as compared to Luminosity mask, I may sound naive..but correct if I am wrong..can we do the same merging of exposures in lightroom with raw files and achieve same end results or there will be some limitations.
how to instal the easy panel on a Mac? since you using a Mac
Hi there,
The installation instructions for installing on a Mac are included in the download. Please make sure you are installing the correct version for your Photoshop (CS6/CC).
Hello Jimmy, just a question of beginner : do I still need your free easy panel if I buy the Raya pro 3.0 panel?
Hey there,
You don't need the Easy Panel if you have Raya Pro. RP has everything you need :) Thanks
Jimmy McIntyre thank you Jimmy. 👍
Where you been Jimmy? We miss your knowledge
Is that Eileen Donan ??. Great tutorial.
Yes it is :)
When I try to create the mask folder I get the error The command "Apply Image" is not currently available.
You probably need to change a small setting in Photoshop. Try point 6 in this support page: www.shutterevolve.com/instamask-support-page/
Thanks Jimmy, that took care of it.
can you please let know how to remove the black edging around the trees @ 15:15
Hi there,
I don't have a tutorial on this on CZcams I'm afraid.
Jimmy McIntyre, Thank you for letting me know! Will adding a new layer and the stamp tool be a good solution for that, thanks
@@JimmyMcIntyre is there a lesson in your Art of Photography tutorial that addresses it? If so, which lesson?
You can add some (very light) feathering of the mask to get rid of it.
i downloaded and installed successful i cant find it in Photoshop 2018...What to do!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hi there, go to the top menu Window, and then to extensions, you will see it there.
@@JimmyMcIntyre cool.i got it.will thanks
Is this you Jimmy ??? Without the beard, you look much younger ! :-)
hello jimmy, do you have an Instagram?
next time you are in New Zealand, make contact
omg
Seat belt newbies...
Where have you been hiding?