- So now that I've explained a little bit about the new way
we're going to think about masking in Lightroom
let me show you the new panel and what it's all about.
So here is a recent headshot that I have taken.
And if we come over here
and look in the tools area,
you can see that things are starting
to look a little bit different.
We do have some familiar icons.
We have our crop icon.
We have our spot healing brush tool
which I will touch on later.
We do have the red eye removal tool,
but then we have this new icon over here,
which does not look like a mask in my opinion,
but, you know, whatever.
So if we go ahead and click on that image
you can see that we have some new options.
These are the different selection methods that we have.
Some of them you may be familiar with, like brush,
linear gradient and radial gradient.
Those were the old tools that we had
for selective adjustments,
but we do have some new options too
and those I'm going to touch on in my next section.
For the moment, I'm going to click once
on my Select Subject Command here, which is going to open
up a new window, which we will see right here.
So let me go ahead and zoom in
to this window so that we can see what it's all about.
If we take a quick look, we can see
that we do have a mask one
and we have show overlay turned on.
And that's why we are seeing a red overlay
over the subject that was created.
So if we look down here,
you can see a little icon right there.
Now this is a little bit like a our pinpoint
from previous versions,
but it's telling you what was used in order to create
the mask or the local adjustment that we are making.
So you can see that as a little person.
If it were like a sky, we would see a different icon
and you'll see different icons pop up
as I use different methods to build my hybrid masks
in later chapters.
But right now, what we need to focus on
is the little masking area that we have over here.
So each mask that we create is going to have its own line
and you can see it right here.
If we go ahead and double click
we can rename this subject mask.
We can go ahead and press, okay.
And there we go.
There is our little option.
If we want, we can go ahead
and make this a little bit smaller
by hitting the two little icon areas there
which will give you a compressed view.
You can also expand it out and then you can click and drag
and remove it from its docking as well.
So once we have a mask, you have some options of how you got
to this place and those options are down here.
Everything is going to be delineated.
So if I were to create another mask, I'm going to go ahead
and hit the plus icon to create a new mask.
I'm going to choose select subject again,
but bear with me here.
So here is the second mask that we've created.
Let's go ahead and double click
and we'll call this Background.
So even though we've selected the subject,
what we're going to do is tweak this mask
by coming to the subject byline
and choosing the three dots next to it
which is going to allow you the option to invert this mask.
Now we have a mask of our subject
and we also have a mask of our background,
but we've used the exact same method
to get those two results.
All we've done is just inverse the selection.
So at this point, what we can do
with our background selected is we can go ahead
and just darken the background slightly
or we could even add a monochromatic color to it
to add a little bit of zhush if you will, to the image.
So just by creating two different masks
using the exact same command
I'm able to very easily and quickly modify this image
in ways that I never would've been able to do
in previous versions of Lightroom.
I'm going to get a lot more in depth
with the different selection options that we have,
as well as the different settings
that we have in future videos.
But for this, I just wanted to show the new
little area that we have, this new little window.
this pop out window that we have for our masking.
And I wanted to show the ease of using Select Subject.