Lightroom Tutorial Series. An Integrated Workflow Using Luminosity Masks. pt. 2

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Welcome to my blog.  Today, I will be sharing the part two video of the Lightroom tutorial (video). In part one, we did a basic image process in Lightroom, then handing off the file to Photoshop where I created a luminosity mask.  In this video, I show you how I use the luminosity mask to selectively apply sharpening only to the areas of the images that I want sharpened.

Notes on Sharpening.
When you apply sharpening to an image globally (the entire image) you can create all sorts of nasty artifacts. These artifacts will really show up in the sky or any other smooth area where there isn’t much texture present. So I try to only apply sharpening to the edge detail. With that said, there are two main types of selections when working with luminosity masks.  The first is a surface selection and you would use that to selectively apply, noise reduction, for example.  In our case, we are going to be using the second type of selection, an edge selection.

So, take a few minutes and watch part two. Please note I made the video at 3am, after a very long day making pictures. I am sorry if I seemed a little out of it. I hope you all learn something and you can use this information to help your photography. Have a great day.  Thomas Shue