Thank you so much for helping me to understand these brilliant blending techniques, no more HDR for me in future. I am very grateful for your time and patience in making this tutorial.

Clear and insightful tutorials with solid command of the English language

the very best tutorial on youtube about luminosity masking technique. thanks so much

Thank you, Steve!

The reason your tutorials are so clearly instructive is that you include verbal instructions, which help to understand the whys as well as the hows of the entire process. Absolutely superlative. Many Thanks

Thanks Steve. I have been using photoshop for years, but after watching some of your videos I now realize I haven't been using it very well. Thank you for finally demystifying luminance masks for me. I will be taking a deep dive into more of your videos.

@SteveArnoldPhoto

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Clayton! It's great to know this helped 😃

Very informative

What an excellent explanation, thank you Steve.

A very clear and concise tutorial Steve, making a potentially daunting topic all the more accessible. Well done! 👍

Thank you very much for teaching me you are the best teacher

@SteveArnoldPhoto

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Robert! 😃

Fantastic! Steve. Very well done explanation of a powerful tool. It helps when you repeatedly verbalize the keyboard shortcuts as you go. Easier for us to follow and memorize them. Great job! I just subscribed.

Excellent Video Steve thanks! Slowly slowly I am getting there! So much to learn.

@SteveArnoldPhoto

5 жыл бұрын

You're welcome Graham, glad this one is helping you get there 👍

Brilliant stuff Steve Many thanks for sharing your knowledge

@SteveArnoldPhoto

4 жыл бұрын

Cheers Donald, thanks for your feedback 😃

Yes, This one is really clear and easy to understand. Thank you

Great video. I plan on using what I learned on my own images. Thank you. So well explained too.

@SteveArnoldPhoto

4 жыл бұрын

You're very welcome!

Thank you. As always very useful and informative.

@SteveArnoldPhoto

5 жыл бұрын

👍

Superb Video , I could follow this one and understand it thank you.

@SteveArnoldPhoto

5 жыл бұрын

Cheers David, glad to hear it 😃

starting to get my head around it all now but if i watch the vlog another few times and take notes it will help...... another great vlog mate and done at a pace slow enough for me. what i have leaned is watch it on a big screen and not my tablet, it helps lol. :-)

Thank you, Steve! Helped me very much.

Great stuff! This will apply to a job I am just now starting and I am sure will help tremendously.

@SteveArnoldPhoto

5 жыл бұрын

Cheers Keith!👍

This is sooooooo good. Thank you for enlightening me about tip #1.

@SteveArnoldPhoto

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah! Great to hear Joseph! :D

Fantastic as usual mate 👏 just what iv been waiting for. I need to get out and take some pictures now and give it a try. Thank you 👍👍

Great tutorial! I use lightroom mostle for masking but i know photoshop is much better for doing it. I will definitely try your workflow!

@SteveArnoldPhoto

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Toby. Lightroom is good, but once you get to grips with advanced masking in Photoshop it becomes so much more powerful! :D

Great stuff Steve, it's beginning to sink in now. I just wondered why you seem to use curves adjustment mask for changing brightness of selected parts as dragging the centre point up for instance seems to make it it rather flat. Why not use brightness or levels or exposure adjustment mask? Also is it possible to use one adjustment mask on top of another using the same Alpha channel selection?

Thanks a lot for your good tutorials. But is it possible to up-load your sample files ? We want to following to your videos with them.

nice

@SteveArnoldPhoto

5 жыл бұрын

thanks! :)

Super new to this, what are you clicking to reset that layer mask to all black, cant seen to find a shortcut

Great tutorial. I am new to this so very informative. I do have a question. I can't figure out how to "clear" the layer mask from the curves adjustment. How do you do this? I can't find anything except deleting the layer mask. Probably easy for others who are more experienced. Thanks

@SteveArnoldPhoto

4 жыл бұрын

Hi Jane, great question! Click once on the layer mask, then on the keyboard press Command+Delete (Mac) / Control+Delete (PC) to fill the mask with the current background colour. If you press D first, it resets the foreground and background colours to black/white.

@AJPeaPod

4 жыл бұрын

@@SteveArnoldPhoto Thank you for your quick response!!! Appreciate it.

Great tutorial Steve . Do have a list of keyboard shot cuts for tutorials?

@SteveArnoldPhoto

5 жыл бұрын

Cheers Vincent. Actually I don't have a list, that would be a good idea for a cheat-sheet kind of thing though...

@vincentspratling365

5 жыл бұрын

@@SteveArnoldPhoto It would be handy having a cheat sheet. Cheers Steve

What I have been doing is using threshold masking to let me edit or paint skies partially obscured by trees (or hair)... It gets complicated when you have to refine the edge of the mask to prevent fringing. I cannot find a video about it.

Great video. At 7:52 in the video when I apply a white brush to the mask it is not confined to the selected area. I wonder what I'm doing wrong?

@softmochee

3 жыл бұрын

did you figure it out why? same problem for me.