- In this video, we are going to dive deep
into how we can select different things in Lightroom.
And I'm really excited about this,
because there are so many possibilities.
So here we are, I've got an image of my daughter open,
just for this example,
because it was one of the only images that I could find
that I had a picture of a sky in.
So I'm going to go ahead and open up my masking area
by clicking on this little icon over here.
And let's just zoom in and see what all is in there.
We have a lot of options here.
Like I mentioned, you are going to be familiar
with the brush, the linear gradient,
and the radial gradient, because those were the ways
before this version of Lightroom,
that we made our adjustments.
You may be a little bit familiar
with the color range and the luminance range.
Those were originally constrictions
that you could append to a
radial gradient, linear gradient, or brush tool
that you had created in your image with a pinpoint.
So these were more masking constrictions
that applied to these three tools.
Well, now things are a little bit different.
You do have the ability to use
your original tools for Lightroom,
or you can actually just create a mask
by a color, or you could create a mask
just with a luminance range.
Now on top of all of those new additions,
you also have the option to select subject,
which I touched on in our previous video, or select sky.
So these two selection tools
are integrating AI technology in Adobe Sensei,
which is their AI machine learning engine,
to create selections for you.
And they're actually very smart
and very good at what they do.
For example, I'm going to just hit select sky here
and I am giving Lightroom a little bit of a challenge,
because as you can see here, this is a cloud
that I have put in front of the sky of clouds.
So we'll see what it does.
I'm just going to go ahead and select sky,
and there we go, so it has done a pretty good job
of selecting the sky, but it has included the cloud
in the umbrella as well.
And that's perfectly fine, because we have
all of these other tools.
I'm going to show this in more detail in our next section,
but I can use the subtract button here
from this original selection,
to remove the umbrella and the cloud
from my selection if I wanted.
I could also use the radial gradient
to subtract from this as well.
And that's something I'm going to show in my next video.