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Lightroom Classic Masking Overview

Lightroom Classic Masking Overview

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Lightroom Classic Masking Overview

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We are going to start by going into our masking panel, and there you're going to see three different options. I have touched on this a little bit in the masking overview. So we have our select subject, we have our select sky, we have select background, and in a future video, we are going to talk about select people. But for this, we're going to go ahead and select subject. And we're going to then, now that we have this lovely mask of our subject, we're just going to go ahead and brighten the subject, just a touch, so that she pops off of the dark gray background. But let's say we wanted to add a spot in the back of her head so that it looked as if this was shot in studio, how would we do that? Well, we would create a new mask, so we would start with the Create New Mask plus sign, and we're going to start with a radial gradient. We're going to hit that radial gradient, and we're just going to click and drag. And we're going to have it right around the nose and mouth of our subject…

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