- So now that we've had a peak
at what the selection options are,
there's even more cool stuff that I want to bring
to your attention now, and that is
the fact that you can add, subtract, and intersect
different masking options together.
And you can say what the heck is intersecting?
It's basically taking one kind of masking selection feature
and then layering another type of masking constriction
on top of it and you're only left
with what's covered by both.
So it really allows you to create extremely intricate masks
all in Lightroom with a couple of clicks.
So I'm really excited about this section
and let's get started and I'll show you
where all of those things can be found.
So we're picking up where we left off in our last section.
We've got our select sky which has been created,
but now what I'd like to do is actually remove
the area of the umbrella and the cloud from the selection.
They're making it very easy for you,
you can subtract from the original mask.
Let's go ahead and we're going to rename this mask sky
and we're going to click once on our sky mask
and we're going to choose Subtract.
And what comes up when you choose subtract
is how exactly would you like to subtract from your mask?
Which tool would you like to use to make your subtraction?
So, as you can see, you can choose to subtract
using any of the selection methods, but for this,
you could either use radial gradient
or you could use brush, let's go ahead with radial gradient.
I'm going to go ahead and click and drag in the area
around the umbrella and if I go ahead and zoom in,
we have a couple pinpoints here.
The red pinpoint in the middle on the inner circle
is going to modify how much feather that you have
on this selection.
And you can see that from over here as well,
you've got a feather slider there.
Then you have a larger pinpoint
which is going to help modify the height of your selection
and then you have pinpoints on the side
which are going to modify the width of the selection as well.
One new thing that we have is this little rotation
button here which is going to allow you
to rotate in any direction.
So those are your new modification tools
for the radial gradient.
So now that we have our mask created,
you can see a couple different things over here.
We started with the sky
and then you can see that we have a few choices.
We have made modifications to this,
here is the sky that we started with
and then, we have the radial gradient subtraction
and you can see that it's a subtraction
because of this little icon right next to it,
so radial gradient, subtraction,
and then here is our hybrid mask.
So you're always going to have the hybrid mask
as the mask icon, but underneath of it,
you're going to see the different masks
that got you to your hybrid mask.
And if we zoom out and we hover over each one of these,
you can see the differences.
If I hover over the icon of the sky one,
it's going to give me the entire sky mask.
If I hover over the icon of the radial gradient subtraction,
it's going to preview and show me the mask overlay
of the radial gradient subtraction of the umbrella,
and if I hover over the sky mask icon,
it's going to show me the hybrid version of the mask.
So now that I've used two different selection methods
to create my mask, now I can go ahead and change
the settings underneath the areas
that are currently illuminated in red.
And as soon as you start moving any of these sliders,
the red overlay is going to disappear
whether or not you have the show overlay checked.
So I'm going to go ahead and just darken the background
of the sky, make it a little bit more moody,
maybe we can add even some Dehaze
and some texture to that background,
or some clarity to that background
and really make it kind of an angry sky.
But you can see how easy it was to make a hybrid mask
by using the different selection methods that we have.
Now that I've showed you a little bit about
how to select a sky using these methods,
let's go ahead and see if we can mask something
that's a little bit more intricate
like this blue jean jacket, which, as beautiful
as this face is, the last thing that I want to do
is have this distracting bright jacket take away
from this face, we need to go ahead
and create a mask over this jacket.
So let's see, how are we going to start?
Let's start our masking journey
using a linear gradient because it's very easy to do
and we're just going to go ahead and click linear gradient
and let's go ahead and just manually draw a line
of that linear gradient over the area of the image
that includes the jacket.
At this point, what I would like to do moving forward
is I would like to subtract all the colors
that are not the jacket from this area of red,
because we're trying to create a mask
that is just going to modify the color
of the bright blue jacket.
So in that case, instead of subtracting
multiple different colors from our mask
that we currently have, which would be totally a mess,
what we want to do is use a new command called intersect.
So inside of the linear gradient option here,
whatever your mask is that you have here,
you have the option to Intersect Mask With.
And for this example, you're going to have to think
in your mind about a Venn diagram.
So, you have one circle on the left
and you have another circle on the right,
and the circle on the left is the linear gradient
and the circle on the right is going to be a Color Range.
What we want to do is we want to say, anywhere that is blue
within the white section of this mask,
we want that to be what gets modified,
any other color, we don't want that to be modified.
So we're going to go ahead and zoom out
and as you can see, we have an eyedropper over our image.
This is prompting us to select the color
that we want to be included in the intersect of the mask.
I don't like using the word intersect,
I like using the word mask constriction
because I only want it to be visible on the blue area.
And you can see that now that I've clicked once
on the blue jacket, it is selecting
the areas of that jacket.
Let's come on over here and see what we've got going on
because, if you take a look right here
you can see the color that was eyedropped.
You do have the option to refine this mask
by increasing and decreasing the size of the selection,
but my favorite way personally to use this
is to actually click and drag over a small subset
or selection or area of this
which is going to give you multiple different colors
to include in your mask,
and you can see how that snapped in.
It is picking up a little bit of the hair
which is perfectly fine because I can easily modify this
and constrict it a little bit more
off of the hair using the refined slider,
so I'm going to go ahead and pull that down just a bit.
And without any freehand masking whatsoever,
we were able to create quite a intricate and advanced mask
of this jacket just by using the two different options,
and now we have our hybrid mask
which started with the linear gradient
and then we said, use a color constriction
to subtract from the linear gradient
everything that's not blue
and then what we're left with is this mask
that we have up here at the top.
Let's go ahead and rename this mask jacket.
At this point, it's very easy for me to just lighten
and darken the jacket quite significantly
to make the image just pop with her skin.
So I can decrease the exposure of just the jacket
so that it's a little bit less bright
and it's detracting my eye a little bit less
and then I can also take the saturation down
of the jacket so that it's a little bit more washed out,
little bit more acid-washed
and pulls my eye a little bit less away from her face.
So if we want to preview what the mask looks like before
and after, we do have an eyeball right up here
in our mask area which is going to allow you
to turn the visibility of the local adjustment on and off.
So if I go ahead and click on and off of that jacket,
you can see the significant difference that was applied
just using our two mask constrictions, right?
The linear gradient is what we started with,
then we subtracted a color, and we made it
so that it only showed up with the color of blue
and then this is our final mask that we have.
We could, if we really wanted to, we could add to this mask
because there is just a slight area right here
along that seam that wasn't included in this
so we can make another modification to this mask
by hitting the add button, and how are we going to add?
How would we like to add to this mask?
I want to choose the brush tool,
that's how I want to add to this mask.
So I'll go ahead and press add
and then I'm just going to go ahead
and brush over that scene to make sure
that it is indeed included in our selection.
So there is our little brush add to the mask
and then there is our overall tweaked hybrid mask
that looks absolutely perfect.
So again, let's just see it where we started
and how we ended.