#Lightroom 5.7.1 tutorial mac

The black areas arenвЂ™t getting darkened at lot. Those darker areas arenвЂ™t getting darkened now nearly as much. In the image above, you can see how it cut most of my head and a lot of the sand dunes out of that darkened we added.

STEP FOUR: Now drag that Range slider to the right and it detects the dark areas of your original image and it masks them for you. You can see how it gradually goes from darkening at the top down to transparent (the black areas) at the bottom.

The white area you see at the top of the gradient is the part of the image thatвЂ™s getting affected by that darkening you added by dragging the Exposure slider to the left.

#Lightroom 5.7.1 tutorial mac

STEP THREE: If you hold the Option key on Mac (the Alt key on Windows) and you click and hold directly on the slider nub on the left side of the Range slider, it gives you a preview of the mask that the Graduated Filter creates by default. Today, weвЂ™re going to look at my favorite, and my go-to Range Mask feature -В Luminance, which lets you mask parts of the image based on their brightness, so choose Luminance (as shown above). STEP TWO: Go to the bottom of the Graduated Filter panel, and youвЂ™ll see a Range Mask pop-up menu. Yes, I could carefully paint over my face and part of the dune to mask away those areas so theyвЂ™re not dark, but Range Mask is faster, and in many cases does a much better. The darkening that added to the sky with the gradient, also darkened my face and part of the sand dunes as well. This is where problem comes in that the awesome Range Mask tool can fix. Here I clicked on the tool lowered the Exposure slider by more than 2-1/2 stops dragged the Temperature slider a little toward blue (to help the sky not be just a boring gray) and then I took the tool and dragged from the top of the image down to about my waist (as seen above). STEP ONE: my first thought would usually be to grab the Graduated Filter tool to darken the sky. HereвЂ™s our original image (photo of me in the desert outside Dubai by Brad Moore) and the sky is pretty washed out, so weвЂ™ll want to darken it a bit. ThatвЂ™s why today IвЂ™m doing to a quick introduction - kind of a beginnerвЂ™s вЂњget started with Range MaskвЂќ tutorial toвЂ¦wellвЂ¦get you started. Awesome is right -В the Range Mask feature is pretty darn awesome, but any time I show it, I get lots of comments from Lightroom users who didnвЂ™t realize it even existed.