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Lightroom classic 10.410/22/2023 ![]() It did a great job of masking only the stem and flowers. What if I started with Select Subject? I deleted my previous mask and clicked on Select Subject. Of course, if needed, I could use the Add or Subtract options to refine the affected area even further. Now the mask only affects the area within the Subject AND the selected Color Range (just like in the previous version of LrC). Let’s try Select Subject and let LrC do the heavy lifting instead of me painting. What about Intersect? If I click the three-dot menu next to Color Range 1 (or right-click) I can go to Intersect Mask with … and choose from any of the existing tools. That works, but it involves brushing all over the image, which might not always work depending on the photo being adjusted. How can we limit it down to just the flowers? One option would be to click the Subtract button within Mask 1 and choose Brush, then brush over any areas I don’t want to include in the mask. I’ve used the Refine slider to narrow the range of colors down, but it is still affecting areas outside of the flowers I want to adjust. Now Color Range can be used all on its own, so let’s start with that and select the same range of colors (note, I have the overlay set to Color Overlay on B&W with a bright pink to make it easy to see the mask). Let’s try to create that same mask using the new tools. Let’s look at how to do that in the latest version of Lightroom Classic with Masking. Once I finalized my mask, I could then dial in the desired settings I wanted to apply to the affected/masked area. Only pixels within the area defined by both of those tools are masked. Then, clicking the Range Mask drop-down menu I could choose Color, and sample colors within the flowers to refine the mask to only affect those colors within the Radial Filter I had drawn. ![]() One approach might be to grab the Radial Filter, and place an inverted oval (so it affected the inside of the oval) over the flowers, like this. Here’s a simple example, let’s say I wanted to affect just the flowers of this hosta (I think) plant. In the prior version of Lightroom Classic (10.4), within either the Graduated Filter, Radial Filter, or Adjustment Brush, we could refine the affected area by applying a Color or Luminance Range Mask. However, let’s first take a step back to the previous version, Lightroom Classic 10.4, to see if that can help us as we move forward. ![]() There’s one aspect, Intersect Mask, that seems be a little harder to understand on first look, so I thought it would make a good topic for a deeper dive. The new/upgraded Masking functionality in Lightroom Classic (and friends) has been very positively received so far.
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