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Color and luminance masking in Lightroom

Color and luminance masking in Lightroom

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Color and luminance masking in Lightroom

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- [Chris] Hello friends this is Chris Orwig and welcome to another episode of Photo Tools Weekly. In this episode, I want to share another quick tip about how we can use this new masking feature, which is connected to our adjustment tools here. And here I want to work with a landscape photograph, and I want to change the color and brightness of the trees here. I like the overall mood of the image, but I want more warmth, and a little more brightness there. How do we do that? Well it's really easy. We can use any of our adjustment tools here. I'll use a Gradient tool, but you could also use Radial or the Adjustment Brush for that matter. Then you want to choose your effect. I'm going to increase my Color Temperature, a little bit of Exposure, Shadows, and Contrast. There's no need to worry too much about these settings, because you can change them later. Then next, just click and drag or paint over the area that you want to modify, depending on the tool you're using, with this tool to…

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