A Simple But Effective Way to Create Luminosity Masks in Photoshop
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- čas přidán 8. 10. 2017
- Create Luminosity Masks Visually! Without having to worry about selections, channels and all those complicated stuff in Photoshop. Learn how to use Luminosity Masks to not only target the exact area you want (For instance, sky) but also use the same to mold the light, apply some really dramatic effects and extract amazing details.
In this video, we will learn how to create Luminosity Masks using "Color Range" Feature under Select Menu in Photoshop and discover different ways of using the same, discussing its applications. Hope this video helps you. Thank you for watching!
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This guy deserves more subscribers! He puts so much effort into his videos and that really shows in the quality! He also really knows his stuff, and explains it so well! This channel is 10/10
more like 100/10. He definitely deserves millions of subscribers
They are the best photoshop tutorials by far.
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thank you its really amazing how you explain !
Can't believe these are free! Better than a lot of tutorials that are for sale.
As a photoshop veteran I've watched hundreds if not thousands of hours of tutorials plus many live events. This is without a doubt one of the best. Thank you, sir. The alternative way to create luminosity masks is nothing less than brilliant & your explanation is clear & concise.
Now I finally understand luminosity masking and a great way to create them. Thanks a bunch for this great tutorial (and all your other great tutorials). This is my go-to channel for learning photo processing.
Love how he explains everything. This helps so much more than "just do this or just do that".
Absolutely brilliant. Best teacher on youtube.
I'm crying. Not only does he have the best tutorials but he updates his tutorials when he finds a better way of doing it. Do we even deserve him?
Thanks for all the great tuts. After a little test, comparing mask of this method and "traditional" method, I find in this method there're many black or white areas in the mask,instead of all kinds of gray. This is the difference. I recommend: in mask properties, increase feather and immensely lower density. Or obvious edge will occur often when adjusting.
You're very articulate Unmesh, and then I remember that English is your second language. Mind blown.
One of the best photoshop tutorials I've ever seen. I've recently been wanting to learn how to do luminosity masks and all the other videos were youtubers trying to get you to buy their luminosity panels. So frustrating because I want to know how to do them myself. You really laid out so much info here in a very digestible and learnable way. Well done.
The best luminosity mask tutorial ever. Beat anything I have viewed so far... Thumbs up!
There are 2 photography channels I keep coming back to and this is one of them. The other has a much more philosophical bent so most of my photoshop learning comes from here. The more I learn the more I appreciate how good Unmesh is both technically and at serving that knowledge up to us. Many many thanks Unmesh!!
This is by far the best 32 minutes of my day. I hope you can post more videos on luminosity masking. Enthusiasm + knowledge = great tutorial.
I have searched numerous videos to explain luminosity masks. You have explained it the most accurate and simplest way. Well done. And thank you so much for your simple way of explaining this.
I love all the info you provided! I had to stop and backup several times just to try to absorb everything! You are just an amazing teacher!
You are by far the best teacher on the web. You are so smart. Thank you so much for those incredible tutorials.
Honestly, you have a better pronunciation than most other youtuber even with a slight accent, better way of teaching, patient, good tonality and very usefull tips and trick.... this is by far one of the best channel on youtube for photoshop !!!! Thanks a lot for doing what you do and helping me (and others) perfecting my art every day and makes money doing what I love !
You have a gift on explaining stuff in a very simple way. I agree with @Nandish, this guy deserves a million subscriber.
There are two people in this world of photography, and i mean it, that i would love to meet in person. One is you. I wish you could sit here in our place with a smile on your face to understand what a joy you bring to us with your every video. Respect. Thank you for everything you do
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The breadth of possibilities within this concept are overwhelming. I have scores of landscapes from this past summer and am incessantly editing them. Thanks for your help!
It was just now I understand your luminosity mask application. Been doing other methods and camera raw alone for quite sometime now, this one is an eye opener for mer. Not to mention this was uploaded since 2017. Thank you Unmesh. been learning PS CC thru your tutorials. I just need to continuously play those video of yours when I need them on an image I wanted to edit. Kudos to your teachings!
GENIUS! Thank you!! And BTW, I love when you said "quantize your selections" being the limitation of the old way. Such a perfect description of the issue, in one word--instant "aha!"
This is the most mind blowing edit education video I've ever seen! You sir are a CHAMPION of your craft!
I agree, I'd love to see more critique videos. The learning from these is fantastic. Beautiful images submitted as you say. I love how humble you are, never taking away from others talents. You obviously have a great eye though to critique so well. Thank you for this learning. Any of your teachings are good, you explain so well.
This is amazing! Thank you so much. Your videos are some of the most helpful I have ever viewed. Your explanations are very much appreciated.
Another great tutorial. I did learn a trick to control how much is hidden in the mask. Select the mask and control the density in properties to control how much is hidden. You also hit Shift+Control/Command and click in the mask to select black section. Change the background color to 25% grey. Hit Control+Backspace (Command+Delete) to make the black 25% grey. You can now hit Control + I (Command+I) to invert your selection and change the color of the background color to another shade of grey and repeat the process. Now you have a dual grey mask. I like it because I can dim the shade of certain objects in my composite. I'm quite sure you knew this. Just thought I'd post it. Thanks again for another outstanding tutorial.
I love the way you recap the whole work at the end of your videos ! What a great channel !
I have been watching a lot of tutorials about photoshop, this guy's way of explanation is simply amazing! Can't believe it's free.
Your enthusiasm really makes it easy to watch your videos. I learn so much by watching them and it's painless because you can see you are having fun explaining all the details and nuances so eloquently. Great channel!
I've tried really hard to understand channels and alpha channels and it seemed like a lot of work for something I didn't get noo matter how hard I tried. This tutorial is awesome. I've tried it out and am very pleased with how effective it is. Many thanks - I'm going to keep watching your tutorials
There is no other better person on the internet, who can teach editing with photography, You also teach the core basics of photography with your tutorials..You are great Sir..
This is one of the most thorough and easy-to-understand PS tutorials that I've seen in a while! Very nice!
Some of the best Photoshop tutorials on CZcams! You explain it so well! Great work!
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Unmesh has gotta be one of the best tutorialists on the planet!! he makes sense of complex proceedures and always flips my creativity switch back on !! thanks man for another awesome tut
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Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! Your method is MUCH more powerful and intuitive than ANY of the videos that I've seen on the subject.
Oh man that color range tool is a time saver!
A really great way to create luminosity masks that I did not see on the internet elsewhere! Als o very well explained!
This tutorial is simply brilliant. The use of Color Range to control your selection luminosity is so much simpler than the traditional Luminosity methods. You really should take out a patent on this method.
you're the best!! I'm a very bad listener but you get me listening 😀
Thank you for taking the time to share - super helpful and much appreciated. And very well taught, too!
This is hands down the BEST method of creating those luminosity masks! Thanks man!
Great tutorial, I understand luminosity masking better now. But I may have to go back and look at it again. SO much information to absorb!
This video just took my work up 10 levels!!! Thank you!!
Fabulous! I love this tutorial. You are a great teacher. There is probably a lot more work in preparing this tutorial than one might think. Thank you.
I'm very glad that I have found your videos. You do an outstanding job of explaining things. Thank you!
Ι love this guy. He have his way to explain it perfect so you can understand it. Now i understand the color range and luminocity masks together). Thank you
Thank you for taking the time to describe luminosity masking. This was very helpful to me.
Wow! Your great explanations and examples blew my mind away. This is absolutely amazing as all of your other video tutorials are too. Thanks so much for sharing!
Absolutely ripper. I learned photoshop like Topsy, so its was just out with the basic layer mask and brush away vivid and wild as best we could. Sometimes the colour selections, again Topsy. I had never used luminosity masks. By the way starting from scratch over colour, brightness, and masking is so good. Making defined and understood terms caters for all of us at any level. Very pleasing.
Fantastically explained luminosity masks. Thank you.
Great video, this technique makes much more sense to me than the usual method. Keep up the good work, it's appreciated 👍
You are an amazing teacher man. Thank you for all the time and effort you put in your videos!
Absolutely fantastic tutorial. Thanks
Great tutorial.
This method is NOT YET very well known and many people are STILL selling/using Actions for Luminosity Masks (based on the "Channels" tab) everywhere in the internet.
The reason for it is simple: The "Color Range" selection applied to brightness levels didn't have either the "Fuzziness" slider, nor the "Range" slider usable UNTIL Photoshop CC.
In Photoshop CS6, for example, the "Color Range" selection applied to brightness levels has a *fixed* "Fuzziness" and a *fixed* "Range", not being possible to refine the selection and play with it "visually" as you show in your tutorial.
With Photoshop CC 2015 it is possible, and at least since then, it does not make sense any more to use the classic method (based on the "Channels" tab).
I am not sure about when (in which Photoshop CC version) did Adobe include the usable "Fuzziness" and "Range" sliders in the "Color Range" selection applied to brightness levels. I know that in Photoshop CS6 they were not usable, and with Photoshop CC 2015 they are.
Conclusion: IMHO, if you have a modern Photoshop, stick to this new method, It's much more visual and intuitive than using "Channels".
Another excellent tutorial which avoids creating the rigid percentage selections of other tools.
Thanks for all the tutorials you provide!!!
You are my best tutor 🔥❤️❤️
Amazing Bro i've been watching a lot of tuto about luminosity mask and so far your technique kick ass !!
I will keep creating with YOUR HELP !!!!!!!!! Your fantastic.
Your best tutorial yet. Thank you!
Thank you. Have been looking forward so long for you to teach about LM. Traditional method is really difficult .. your method using curve & color range make it easy. Hope for more tutorial on landscape photo processing for a change!
Great tutorial, best approach I have seen so far, great hands on method to getting a precise selection. Keep up the exellent work
You're doing great job :) teaching people in a very logical way! The only thing I would add - when I do luminosity masks, I change the blending mode to "luminosity" to affect only light, and take care of colors separately later :).
another first class tutorial - and another real time saver! Thanks
Always very clear and enthusiastic, Unmesh - great job and great tips!
You explain everything so clear and wonderful🍀
A creative genius and an inspiring tutor
Another awesome tutorial Unmesh. You usually teach about something I already know how to do but then you go to the next level and show how to improve upon it. I love your teaching method of really breaking stuff down and showing us not just how something works but why it works. Thanks.
I wish you could do a video on selecting a tree with leaves on it that is so difficult that using multiple methods is necessary to make a good clean selection. And then, knowing that no selection is perfect show us how to get rid of the fringing and what ever else is wrong in order to get the best possible selection. This is the one thing in Photoshop that I just can't seem to do very well. I believe if someone can select trees than they'll be able to make the most difficult selections of hair.
love your tutorials! thanks.
absolute best professor, gifted.
A masterful presentation-thank you!
This is simply amazing. Thank you so much!
Teaching advanced stuff like this to amateurs like us... Bless you buddy!!
You are the best and my only teacher in Photoshop. Watching your video and then at the end just say wow.
amazing- at last now i understand luminosity masking ... thanks for sharing the knowledge... ur amazing
This guy just explained exactly what I was looking for.
Great tutorial and you make me think of using this method for sky replacement and you know what, this is probably the best and fastest way to do it. Thank you
HUGE man ! thanks so much for explain it so deeply and well ! And with smiles it is beautiful to watch :)
This tutorial is so great, it makes me wanna pay you! Man, you are unbelievable!!
Thanks for your simple, effective and very informative tutorial.
Thank you! This was so helpful. Love your videos❤️🙌
这是我最过的最好的视频，非常感谢。
The flexible method is brilliant. Many thanks Unmesh
I agree with Nandish- You're the best!
thank you for the explanation of color range.
Thank you for sharing all your knowledge! I love this and I am learning so much!
I have just started mastering photoshop by watching your channel. You are amazing my dear friend.
The way you explain everything 👌👌
i have seen a lot of lum mask videos. your method really rocks! well done!
Excellent tutorial. He took his time and explained everything very well.
Never close my eyes for more than 30 minutes.. so interesting! Thanks so much, and yeah you should have a million subscribers by the way
You are as useful as my Wacom tablet! Thank you for doing the teaching videos!
Thanks so much....great tutorial! Need to rewatch to get it all.
The man is a great teacher,one of "if not the best"on youtube
Thats gold mate, opened my eyes, great videos by the way.
Great tutorial. Thank you.