You know how to make a basic edit with Lightroom and now it’s time to master the masking tools to make your subjects stand out in your photos! After the recent updates to Lightroom 2022, it has become easy, fast and efficient to mask our subjects, whether that’s a person, an animal, a fruit or basically anything I will teach out how to mask simple and effective from the basics and with some more advanced use cases.

This class is for anyone who uses Lightroom, whether it’s you have just recently gotten into editing or if you have already mastered Lightroom I’m sure you will learn something from these techniques to make your workflow simpler and help you draw focus and attention to your subjects.

The skills you will learn in this class are:

• The old way of masking: Manually masking subjects efficiently with brushes and auto-masking to select your subjects and use the mask to easily select the background.
• The new way of masking: Easy subject masking with the new “subject” masking tool, where Lightroom automatically detects your subject.
• Combining the old and new ways for full control of masking. When Lightroom misses the target subject, combine the methods taught to easily fix the mistakes and mask in or out the missing pieces.
• Advanced techniques for combining masking tools in different ways to master masking by using Linear Gradient, Luminance Range and Color Range to take full control over your edits and select detailed parts of your image with few clicks.

This class is for you if

• You want to take your edits to the next level by making your subjects and photos stand out more
• You want to increase your knowledge and skill in how to use masks for full control over every detail of your edits
• You want to differentiate your style from others by more than colour grading, these are the skills for you

This class is for everyone who has Lightroom and wants to learn new techniques to edit with masking. It is for all levels although a basic understanding of Lightroom and how to edit is recommended. If you are new to Lightroom though, there are a ton of tips to learn and you can always watch parts of the course multiple times if you need to go through something again.