I really enjoyed using luminosity masking over the weekend
The feature saved me a ton of work. Many of you probably already caught on to this but for me it was the first time I made this kind of use (repeated) of the feature.
Saturday morning I had an opportunity to photograph a Northern Hawk Owl. They like to hang out on the tip top of trees when they are not hunting so they spend a lot of time against a bright sky. I was a pretty overcast day so obviously I wanted to make separate adjustments to the owl and the sky.
I created a layer for the sky and used the Luminosity mask to select the sky and brought up the blue that was there. Then I created a second layer for the owl and copied the mask from the sky layer, rasterized it and then inverted it. That gave me a mask for the owl. I made my adjustments for the owl and was happy.
https://www.lesliesoftware.com/imagehost/i.php?/upload/2020/02/03/20200203112550-922d4918-sm.jpg
I copied the layers from the first owl picture to the others. The sky layer was a perfect mask (luminosity) for the sky in each image and to get a mask for the owl all I needed to do was clear the mask on the owl layer copy the sky mask for that picture, rasterize it and invert it. Bingo the next own looked great.
https://www.lesliesoftware.com/imagehost/i.php?/upload/2020/02/03/20200203112552-97f70ecf-sm.jpg
The above even worked for the shots while the owl was hunting. More branches were just ignored by the luminosity mask. I'm sure if I was lucky enough to get some shots of the owl against the ground I would have had to use different technique but I didn't have that much luck this time. In the past with shots like these I had to manually make the mask for the owl for each image and invert it for the sky and then take out the branches etc.
Anyway I don't have question - just thought I would share.
Saturday morning I had an opportunity to photograph a Northern Hawk Owl. They like to hang out on the tip top of trees when they are not hunting so they spend a lot of time against a bright sky. I was a pretty overcast day so obviously I wanted to make separate adjustments to the owl and the sky.
I created a layer for the sky and used the Luminosity mask to select the sky and brought up the blue that was there. Then I created a second layer for the owl and copied the mask from the sky layer, rasterized it and then inverted it. That gave me a mask for the owl. I made my adjustments for the owl and was happy.
https://www.lesliesoftware.com/imagehost/i.php?/upload/2020/02/03/20200203112550-922d4918-sm.jpg
I copied the layers from the first owl picture to the others. The sky layer was a perfect mask (luminosity) for the sky in each image and to get a mask for the owl all I needed to do was clear the mask on the owl layer copy the sky mask for that picture, rasterize it and invert it. Bingo the next own looked great.
https://www.lesliesoftware.com/imagehost/i.php?/upload/2020/02/03/20200203112552-97f70ecf-sm.jpg
The above even worked for the shots while the owl was hunting. More branches were just ignored by the luminosity mask. I'm sure if I was lucky enough to get some shots of the owl against the ground I would have had to use different technique but I didn't have that much luck this time. In the past with shots like these I had to manually make the mask for the owl for each image and invert it for the sky and then take out the branches etc.
Anyway I don't have question - just thought I would share.
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Nice work.
I find Luminosity masking useful quite often but sometimes, with some images in the right circumstances, it goes well beyond "useful" and can be spectacularly helpful.
Grant0 -
Agreed. And another checkmark in the competition comparison...
Still getting used to it to find the images for which it is still useful just yet, besides the obvious images.
Ian you have showed a great example where it is particularly helpful, maybe I need to review one or the other early image edited with version 8, not only for the masking but also for the new rendering engine.
Cheers
BeO0 -
For the owl, you can take a short route for its mask. The point is that the Luma Range tool has an invert option. So you can skip the copy-rasterize-invert route and just copy and invert and have the additional benefit of the flexibility on the Luma Range because you did not rasterize.
Less work, better results.
Yes, I love the Luma Range since its release in CO12.0 -
Paul_Steunebrink wrote:
For the owl, you can take a short route for its mask. The point is that the Luma Range tool has an invert option. So you can skip the copy-rasterize-invert route and just copy and invert and have the additional benefit of the flexibility on the Luma Range because you did not rasterize.
Humm I tried that first and it didn't seem to work. I recall at the time I was surprised but moved on to the rasterize method. I'll have to try again and see what I missed. Knowing it should work I'll persevere 😊0 -
Perhaps useful for interior architecture where exterior windows and lumens are much higher than interior lighting.
Thanks
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