Looking to spot-correct your images using selection masks? Or looking to refine your knowledge of Masks and learn how to get more natural-looking results?
Join us for a Livestream where we dive into the art of precision editing through masking.
Simply put, masking tools give you control over how and where an adjustment takes place.
One example is if you want to edit the exposure or tone of a subject’s face without altering the rest of the image.
You will learn to create, feather, and refine a mask. From hand-drawn to luminosity and color-based masks, you will cover all the steps to edit more efficiently and confidently.
A summary of the Live Q&A has been attached to this article.
[00:00] - Countdown
[08:50] - Intro
[12:50] - Importance of Flow
[24:30] - Refining masks
[34:05] - Luma Masking
[52:10] - Colour range masking
[58:50] - Final Q&A
Comments
8 comments
Hi David,
I want to know if Capture One will develope some Auto Masks, suchs as: background, subject, sky. I'm not a professional, but my main interest is bird photography and this "auto mask" will be a great tool for other photographers like me. You can see my photos on Instagram @jbmejiao, hope to see you round there.
Saludos desde Colombia!
Hi David,
I do find the magic brush to mask objects often hit and miss. For quick selection of straight edge objects there is the shift -Draw Mask function which I can use to form shapes and fill in, but there is no opposite Erase Mask "fill". As I cannot subtract or add toegther masks from different adjustment layers, I have only the Erase Mask tool to use which takes time. I often have to edit framed artworks. The invert mask often doesnt solve my problems. Can either "shift-Erase Mask-fill be developed or capability to add or subtract mask in adjustment layers?
Hi Juan Mejia. We can certainly discuss this on the day. We have already announced we have this coming for Capture One too. :)
kitmin lee Thanks for your comment! We can look at ways to improve using the Magic Brush.
Thank you David for looking into this. As the artwork has similar colour to the frame .e.g white frame and white artwork (either all white or partial elements white), I find the Magic Eraser tool too inaccurate, so a manual erase of the mask is required. I can start the erasing the edges using shift-Erase tool, but the inside area I have to manually erase, like wiping a whiteboard clean. i think the Magic Brush will struggle to differentiate areas of very similar colours, hence the need for "fill" the area defined by the shift-Erase tool. Sorry if this is not clear what I am trying to achieve.
Hey David,
some of my portraits show a very similar color range between skin tone and hair. This makes it very difficult to adjust the skin tone without tempering with the hair. It would be great if you could cover this in your webinar - I'm definitely struggeling with stuff like this a lot. (Color mask doesn't work, because the color is too similar, hand drawn mask is tedious due to the hair, and luminosity mask - well, maybe this might work, but it seems the luminosity in hair and skin are quite close, so this also is not working for me!)
I'll join the evening webinar.
Thanks in advance and kind regards
When can we rewatch this? It says upcoming but it was yesterday?
Troy House. I have just added the recording. I will add chapters and the Q&A summary tomorrow.
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