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Create a luminosity mask

Create a luminosity mask - Photoshop Tutorial

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Create a luminosity mask

- [Instructor] For this image of the Milky Way Galaxy over a mountain range, the goal is to create tonal adjustments that specifically target the lighter areas of the Milky Way so that we can adjust them separately from the rest of the sky. We're going to get this process started by using the existing brightness values in the image to create a luminosity mask. I'm going to begin here in Adobe Camera Raw with the Raw dng version of this file. Mainly just so that you can see what adjustments have already been applied to it that help to make the Milky Way even more visible. I'm going to come to the Basic tab over here in the right of Camera Raw, and in the upper-right of the Basic tab there's a little menu icon, I'll click on that, and then I'll choose Camera Raw Defaults. So this is what the image looked like straight out of the camera with no adjustments at all. I'll come back to that same menu and then I'll choose Image…

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