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Masking Hack: Part 2

Last month I shared a way to trick the Select Sky function to select the reflection in water using either Camera Raw (ACR) or via sync to the desktop version of Lightroom (Lr) when starting…

Lightroom Classic Masking Hack for Selecting Reflected Skies

Ok, I’ll admit right away that this is not pretty, but I thought it was interesting enough to share. Perhaps someone will figure out a more elegant solution (like Adobe), and I’d love to hear…

New Features in Lightroom for Desktop

The version of Lightroom that runs on Mac and Windows (aka “Desktop”) got a small update this week to version 5.3. As usual, these updates include support for new cameras and new lenses as well…

Exploring Masking Overlay Options

One of the aspects inside of the recent Masking update worth exploring a little deeper is all the new functionality added to the overlay that appears when a mask is first created. In its previous…

Advanced Lightroom Masking Tips

It’s Friday – time for another awesome video from Terry White – this one is on the new advanced masking tools in Lightroom, and there’s a lot of great info in this short video, especially if…

I Love Lightroom’s New “Reset Sliders Automatically” Feature

BEFORE WE KICK THIS TIP OFF: Today over on my scottkelby.com blog I released my 16th annual “Holiday Photography Gear Guide,” which is featured each year as the cover article from Photoshop User magazine. Here’s…

Seven Really Useful Lightroom Masking Shortcuts

Now that we have awesome new masking tools, here are some of the masking shortcuts I use the most (many of these were in Lightroom even before the new masking tools were added): ‘ |…

Get Oriented to Masking

I love the new Masking tools in the latest version of Lightroom Classic, Lightroom, and Adobe Camera Raw, but I admit, it can take a bit of getting used to when you first see the…