Luminosity masks are one of the most powerful tools we can use to edit our images. They are just what the name implies, a mask that lets you edit your image based on luminosity values. A couple of years back, Lightroom added the ability to create and edit using luminosity (or color). Richard Smith is our club expert on Lightroom luminosity masks but since we haven’t had any meetings for the last year (hopefully that will change in the next month or two) he hasn’t been able to deliver any of his Lightroom Boot Camp presentations. But, if you’re interested, here’s a recent tutorial from Colin Smith of Photoshop Café going over it in great detail.
(284) How to use Luminosity masks (Range Masks) in Lightroom & Camera RAW – YouTube
Sometimes you just need to add something to a photograph to get the impact you need. Since we’re not photojournalists, at least most of us, that’s perfectly OK. I guess true nature photographers have a problem with
adding or removing stuff also but let’s ignore that for now. Aaron Nace of Phlearn has added something new to his YouTube channel that he calls Quick Tips. Just short videos on how to do something. Here are a couple of interesting ones. How to add the Milky Way to a photograph and how to add any size moon to your images. Once, just for fun, I added the Milky Way into a night shot of the Market Street bridge. You’d need a total power outage in Hamilton County on a very specific night of the year to maybe able to see that.
(284) How to Add the Milky Way in Photoshop – YouTube
(284) How to Add a Moon to a Photo in Photoshop | Quick Tips – YouTube
This one’s from our friend at PIXimperfect. He’s found a free website where you can use their artificial intelligence to convert those old black and white images to color.
(284) Hands Down Best A.I. to Auto-Color B&W Photos! – YouTube
Blake Rudis of f64 Academy has an interesting way to recompose your shots after you take them. He uses content aware to add space to any photograph you might have wished you had composed differently.
(284) Recompose ANY Photo in Photoshop – YouTube
Our June Contest theme was Abstract photography. I don’t know about everyone else, but I had a hard time defining what abstract photography is. Maybe the category is too broad to be tightly defined, who knows. A lot of images included in abstract groupings online, didn’t look very abstract to me. To me, if you don’t know what it is, its abstract. I did find a technique that was definitely (in my mind) abstract. It’s called Twirl Art and you can learn how to do it in this tutorial first shown on the website Photoshopessentials.com.
(284) How to create abstract Twirl Art Effects in Photoshop – YouTube
