Thanks Greg. The additional time you are spending with the tutorials is greatly appreciated.

I purchased the lumenzia masking panel. It is a game changer and I am just getting started. Kudos for power and the clean interface!

@gregbenzphotography

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you’re enjoying it!

Hi Greg, I've been following you for a while, appreciating your very clear analyses and explanations. I'm new, however, to Lumenzia. - Seeing this 10min video about "Custom Luminosity Masks with Lumenzia" has significantly improved and pushed my understanding. - Thank you very much! - I can't wait to continue learning.

@gregbenzphotography

Жыл бұрын

Glad you’re enjoying the videos!

If you played baseball, you'd probably would've won the triple crown! Truly a game changer that facilitates the targeted selection process with another weapon at ones disposal. Truly remarkable Greg!

@gregbenzphotography

7 жыл бұрын

You don't want to see me play baseball. ;)

Already it has become exponentially clear to me that purchasing LUMENZIA is the smartest investment I've made in developing my skills. These tutorials are the Gold Standard of training! So well done - logical and on point. I am so grateful to have found you, Greg! Cheers! With love from Atlanta.

@gregbenzphotography

Жыл бұрын

Thank you, Don!

Thank you so very much for this video, Greg! This is a life saver! Thanks a lot! amazing work!!!

Wonderful, targeted explanation of the refining options

Thank you for Lumenzia 4 and orange preview is a game changer

Wow, There has been SO MUCH I missed over the the last years with Lumenzia. I haven't got to the major part of the course but this review has been an eyeopeninger. Hope I can remember it all

@gregbenzphotography

6 жыл бұрын

That’s great!

This video really resonated with me, looking forward to putting it into practice. Thanks

I've messed around with those custom features before but it was sorta guesswork for the most part. It makes so much sense now!!

Excellent video Greg. Made me appreciate even more how powerful and easy Lumenzia is.

@gregbenzphotography

7 жыл бұрын

Alan Di Lucca perfect, that's the goal!

Thanks Greg, Just installed Lumenzia and let the education begin. Amazing tool you have created.

@gregbenzphotography

6 жыл бұрын

Phil Pape awesome, have fun!

Excellent tutorial. I found it concise, clear and easy to follow. Would like to see tutorials on using lasso with masks and adding and subtracting.

Another video very helpful !!!

Greg, I only had a chance to use v3 for a week or so before v4 was released but this is absolutely next level. I have the other popular masking panels and since I've been using Lumenzia, I haven't touched the others. Your panel is so simple & intuitive, yet offers amazing customization & flexibility. It has brought a whole new level to my image processing. Now, I'm just patiently waiting for a V4 complete video series for us users to get the most out of it... Keep up the amazing work!

@gregbenzphotography

7 жыл бұрын

David Lewis that's amazing! I've already put out about 7 videos on v4. Be sure to see my latest KZread videos, as well as clicking the "tutorials" button in the panel or using the links in the written manual. More to come!

Back to the basic tutorials... Practical anyway. Thanks Greg

Excellent video. Forgive me if it is already but I think this video should be in bundle with the software. I have seen most of your videos and this one is the most useful (and we know how much the other also are...). Just watching it shows how useful Lumenzia can be. Thank you for your work!

A really excellent extension to Photoshop Greg. Indispensable. Thanks

@gregbenzphotography

7 жыл бұрын

Peter Dulson thanks!

I have been deep diving into using luminosity masks and have several tools and have seen lots of videos and ways to work with luminosity masks. At this point your videos and Lumenzia is my preferred approach. Great tool and great teachings. I needed to try them all but I have come to settle on Lumenzia both because it is so user friendly and powerful and your videos.

@gregbenzphotography

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Phillip!

very well done. thank you.

I have tried all the luminosity making extensions and more and more Lumenzia has become my first choice. It gets better and better and I get better and better at using it. Learning the difference between using a mask and a selection from a mask to dodge and burn has been a big learning step for me.

@gregbenzphotography

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks you. Great to hear you find it so valuable!

Very clear tutorial , Greg.

@gregbenzphotography

7 жыл бұрын

jack goodman thanks, Jack!

This was great. Really explained how the software works. This is what I was trying to figure out. Other videos you spend a lot of time on photoshop. In this video you stayed forced on Lumenzia that was great,

Thank You very much, Greg!

Hi Greg, 1. Thanks for the upgrade - xmas again! 2. Best video yet. Informative, straightforward and very empowering. 3. The 'brush on orange' enhancement is brilliant! 4. More thanks.

@gregbenzphotography

7 жыл бұрын

John X great, thanks for the feedback!

@johnx9318

7 жыл бұрын

You are most welcome.

Great video Greg!!!!

@gregbenzphotography

7 жыл бұрын

Stanley Harper thanks!

The luminosity masks are really a great technique!

@gregbenzphotography

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

orange preview is terrific addition/refinement

@gregbenzphotography

7 жыл бұрын

Great, thanks!

Love this video. This is very helpful. Suggestion for future - more start to finish editing. This always helps me apply and retain the process. Thanks!!!

@gregbenzphotography

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, I've got quite a few start to finish videos, be sure to check out my full list of prior videos

Fantastic

Thank Greg

HI Greg, It would be nice to see a full workflow edit of a photo, using the Lumenzia panel, great channel. :)

@gregbenzphotography

7 жыл бұрын

I have a few of those, but will try to add more. Thanks for the feedback.

thanks

Love this tutorial Greg I'm using CS6 so I tried adding a blank layer manually above the three orange changeable layers and painted on it to KO things and it seems to work like the CC14 or above I think :)

@gregbenzphotography

7 жыл бұрын

Roger D Roberts yep. You could grow all sorts of stuff in there. I allow it intentionally to give more flexibility.

Hi Greg, Loving the V4 update, one question... I'm using CC2014 and I don't seem to have the option to paint on orange masks when I click on the top right hand menu, any ideas?

@gregbenzphotography

7 жыл бұрын

The top right menus require CC 2015.5 or later. However, you can just manually add a blank layer in the orange layers (put it in the group), Lumenzia is designed for that kind of flexibility.

Question...Do you recommend using just one of the customizing options, or is it good to adjust from the bottom up and adjust the mask using more than one. Say use the COLOR conversion and also Curves orLlevels? Or is it just better to stick with only one? Great Video! My favorite part was how you explained the Curves. I usually avoid it and go right to Levels. Will try to use Curves more often.

@gregbenzphotography

7 жыл бұрын

Shirley Voelker is just use what you need. If you aren't using the levels on a somewhat regular basis, you're probably missing an opportunity.

That's awesome Greg, but I sometimes spend lots of time fixing the edges, especially when the 2 images are of a high contrast, is there an easy or rather an accurate way of doing it using Lumenzia?

@gregbenzphotography

7 жыл бұрын

You mean bad areas when blending exposures? If so, that's about how you process the files, and can use refine edge to help with some of that (I've got a video of that showing Lumenzia's "edge" tool, which is defined to help). Lumenzia also has a couple tools to help avoid sharpening halos (one I posted previously on KZread, the other is brand new and I haven't made a video yet).

@NabilKouzi

7 жыл бұрын

It is due to processing indeed, but in some cases I have to deal with what I have, and that's where the challenges start. In sharpening I do not have issues, Lumenzia is pretty handy but I only sharpen selected areas, but it is when I need to blend the sky with a photo of towers or trees mostly.

@gregbenzphotography

7 жыл бұрын

Nabil Kouzi the edge tool is best at that stage, unless you need to paint (clone) pixels to repair, which is not simple.

Greg, Here's a challenge I can't solve. I would like to create a Photoshop stack of two separate exposures; first layer exposed properly for background (i.e., a bright sky with distinctive clouds) and second layer exposed for foreground (i.e., the landscape below the sky). How would I use Lumenzia to hide the blown-out sky in the foreground layer so that the properly exposed sky in the background layer and the properly exposed landscape in the foreground layer combine in the stack for the final image? In Photoshop alone, I can use an RGB channel to select the sky as a layer mask but this method does a very poor job of differentiating along the image horizon where blown-out sky mixes in ragged tree lines. Careful painting of sky with black brush between branches and leaves to fill gaps in mask is theoretically feasible yet in practice next to impossible. Can Lumenzia create a refined mask for that will block the sky and the filigree of sky behind trees and leaves so that the properly exposed sky combines in the stack with the properly exposed landscape in the foreground layer of the stack. I really like Lumenzia. I've incorporated it as routine tool in workflow for processing individual images but haven't been able to figure out how to use it to generate masks for individual layers in layers with different exposures. Thank you.

@gregbenzphotography

7 жыл бұрын

Joseph Plummer I've got several videos on this channel for exposure blending, recommend checking them out. Far too detailed for me to reply with a comment.

@antaresting

7 жыл бұрын

Great. I will look for them. Thanks.

@gregbenzphotography

7 жыл бұрын

Joseph Plummer and if you aren't already subscribed to my newsletter, be sure to do that. More blending tutorials coming.