tcthome Loc: NJ

Dan5000 Loc: New Hampshire

Thanks Gene51

Rab-Eye Loc: Indiana

Same here.

MG Audet

Ben,
On YouTube Anthony Morganti has a good tutorial on Masking in Lightroom.

Rab-Eye Loc: Indiana

Thanks, MG.

Gene51 Loc: Yonkers, NY, now in LSD (LowerSlowerDelaware)

It came in liquid form, as well as a self-adhesive film, primarily used in photography and with watercolor art. The film was cut precisely with X-Acto knives - and pasted - sort of a cut and paste :)

amfoto1 Loc: San Jose, Calif. USA

I always associated layers and masking in Photoshop with "amberlith" and "rubylith" we used in newspaper and magazine production. It comes in sheets and has a weak adhesive. It's cut with an Xacto knife to block parts of a graphic or photograph, such as to drop out a background. As the names imply, amberlith is yellow orange and rubylight is a deeper red. It was used in the same manner as frisket, but less messy.

I never thought of amberlith and rubylith as dangerous until we had a somewhat crazy artist assigned to our department. "Ardith the Artist" was the last person in the world still wearing go go boots and miniskirts... and she was many years past when she should have done so. One day an ad sales person asked her to redo something and she stabbed him in the hand with her Xacto knife! Supposedly it was accidental... But just in case, everyone was a bit careful around her after that.

Blair Shaw Jr Loc: Dunnellon,Florida

Gene: That was magnificent. Your detailed explanation really spelled-out the genius of this skill and just how amazingly valuable it truly is. Thank you man ! You're the best.

Jimbo

Nickaroo

As I read your comment out loud my Cat thought that I said Friskies and she ran over to her food dish that I keep in my little 20 by 30 Heated Pole Barn of course. Then I looked at her and said Frisket, she still stayed at her bowl. Ya learn something new everyday. You did explain it very well Gene. Now it's time to turn everything off and go inside eat then come back out and watch some games tonight, I just hope that the winds coming off Lake Superior tonight are a little calmer than the past few nights. Thank You for the tutorial.

via the lens Loc: Northern California, near Yosemite NP

Hi, I am assuming you, or your "friend," uses LrC? Lightroom has always had an ability to mask using one of the tools in the Toolbar, which is where the Brush, Linear and Radial Gradient, as well as a couple of other things, live. I am assuming there was some demand to see the mask as a mask in a "box," as per PS, not just with a red mask over the image area where the change would occur, which is what LrC did. Now, each area changed shows a mask in a box and shows what areas the mask is over, and that can still be done with the actual image. One of the best parts about the new LrC masking ability is that you can select choose image or choose sky and the software defines either one and chooses it, it does a great job on subjects with simple backgrounds. You can correct the mask as needed by adding to it or subtracting from it. Any where you see the mask color, there are several color choices, is where the specific corrections would be made. Why would I mask an image might be the question someone would have. I mask an image so that the corrections made only affect that part of the image and no other part. I can do multiple masks for various image parts as needed. For example, for one of the sandhill crane images I recently took as the crane flew through the sky I would do some general edits, but then mask the crane and do other processing with it that I would not want to apply to the sky. I routinely use masking in LrC.