How to Use the New Masking Features in Adobe Camera Raw
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- Опубликовано: 29 июл 2024
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In this episode, I’m going to teach you how to get the most from your images using all the power Adobe recently released with the updates to Camera Raw.
We will take a pretty flat RAW file and do a full edit.
I love using ACR because all the edits aren’t locked in when going to Photoshop. All these features are also in Lightroom but having the edits right there in Photoshop can be a real life-saver.
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00:01:05 - The Goal for this Video
00:01:55 - Why I use Adobe Camera Raw and Bridge over Lightroom
00:02:45 - First Steps in ACR
00:03:17 - Select Sky in a Mask
00:03:53 - Masking Using Color Range
00:04:19 - Basic Adjustments in Black & White
00:05:14 - The Color Mixer Tab
00:05:48 - Working on the Sky
00:06:38 - Building Contrast on the Foreground
00:07:05 - Linear Gradient in the Foreground
00:07:45 - Using the Brush Tool to Subtract the Mask
00:10:20 - Making the Main Subject Pop
00:12:30 - Slight Vignetting with the Radial Gradient Tool
00:13:47 - Fixing Small Distractions
00:18:36 - Open Up the Image in Photoshop
00.19.38 - Continuing Without Destroying Your Work with Smart Objects
00:20:30 - Recovering a Flat Image Using a Levels Adjustment Layer
00:22:27 - My Favorite Final Trick for Finishing a Dramatic Landscape Image
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This was just terrific! Thank you!! I actually had an image open in PS while watching this for my personal Education time today. An image that I believed I'd just finished. I did your last adjustment, Gaussian blur> Soft Light and - okay - NOW my image is finished. : )) I love people like you who share their expertise.
that's awesome! Thanks for watching
Your shortcut, Cmd/Ctrl R, is fantastic because it allows you to open in Camera Raw without having to wait for Photoshop to open. I love it! Always at least one take-away from your tutorials. Great treatment of masking!
Thanks Larry! Glad it was helpful!
I always patiently waiting for your videos. Thank you!
You are so welcome!
This is the best demo of the power of masks in ACR I have come across and your PS workflow makes good sense as well,,,been a follower since the days of Kelby and the Photoshop Guys,,,thanks ‘Grimmy’!
Thanks so much! Great to have you here!
Oh love your technique. Really magic using the blur at the end.
Thanks again for another "hands on" with Joel presentation...Great information!
Thanks again!
Great tutorial, always enjoy your videos.
It’s a CRIME you don’t have a million subs or more. Thanks for sharing the skills!!!
That's kind, thank you!
Well done Joel! Thanks for the demo.
My pleasure!
Terrific edit Joel👍🏽
Terrific! Thanks for the look at your art and workflow!
My pleasure!
Thanks so much. I love this new feature. You have broken it down into easy-to-understand steps.
Great to hear! Thanks Shelly!
Best black and white tutorial I've seen anywhere, ever. Thanks mate. Well done.
thanks barry!
Wow - what a great lesson - thanks so much!
Glad you liked it!
Joel I'm glad you said something about being color blind. I've always thought that would hinder my ever being serious about editing and photography in general.
Awesome video, thank you!
you're welcome! thanks for watching!
Great vid! Learned a bunch about the new PS raw tools! 😎
Awesome!
Masking was the hardest thing for me to learn in PS...you have taken me to a new level. Thanks
awesome!
Thanks Joel you’re the man. fantastic work as ever❤
My pleasure!
Great video. Very educational and helpful. Thanks
Glad you enjoyed it!
Fantastic tutorial! As always ;) .. Thanks alot! :)
My pleasure!
Great tutorial Joel. I love working with Camera Raw, I don't know about you, but I find it very intuitive. Thank you for sharing.
Awesome, thank you!
Very cool thanks
Glad you liked it
Thank you for the video! I downloaded your image and played around. It's amazing how the image looks so different when you adjust the standard screen mode (light grey, dark grey, black) in PS preferences. I worked on the image, though it was perfect, got up the next day with 'new' eyes, discovering that it wasn't perfect, and made more adjustments.
well done!
I started using masks for exterior real estate photos. Your excellent mask video has taught me more techniques to use, thank you for that!
Glad it was helpful!
Awsome!
Thanks!
how can you export the mask in this case - or can you not? Because this is way better than a usual selection. I could not find a way yet. Thanks. Great video!
Very interesting video
Thanks for visiting
Great!! Just one thing, I'm pretty new in ACR 14.2 and I still don't know where the comands are. Sometimes you push the acelarator and i stay complete lost.
Sorry about that, I get so excited when things start happening. I'll try and slow things down in the future. Thanks for watching!
Can you also mask for sharpening selected areas?.
Reminds me some how of the Nik collection with targeted selections for editing. Very interesting.
Automask looks good.
In fact this looks more precise. Im downloading this right now ha ha.
The biggest difference between Bridge and LR is how they operate from an organizational standpoint. There are some other benefits of each (for example Smart Previews in LR, which are not available in Bridge so with ACR/Bridge you have to have access to the originals to edit them) and being able to do side-by-side comparisons of images is easier in LR (can be done in Photoshop, but not really in Bridge/ACR). But for some people, the process of importing files and creating collections (in addition to what they already do on the hard drive when they copy files over from their memory card) can be a bit of extra (and in some cases, unecessary) work for their workflow. This is true especially if you have a good folder structure and way of naming and keeping your files organized from a phyiscal file/folder structure standpoint. But regardless it uses the same Adobe camera RAW engine (ACR itself -- the front end--what you see; and LR Classic, both use the same math and routines, and I turn on XMP files in LR Classic so I can sometimes edit in ACR/Bridge quickly as it keeps the edits stored in the XMP file as well as the LR Classic catalog. The only issue with this is that you have to tell LR Classic to read the XMP file to update the Catalog, if you edit outside of LR like in ACR/Bridge). But I mainly use the XMP feature in LR Classic as a secondary form of backup in case LR crashes. The most I might lose is the last edit or so (but it constantly writes changes to the XMP files as you edit your files, so it's sort of a good way of backing up your work as you go that's "automatic").
It all depends on organization and how many photos each person takes that's for sure
Great video Joel and like the transformation from original, but I believe your Gargoyles are actually called Hoodoo's
well I stand corrected! 🤓
I would like to know how to combine two masks in camera raw. Thus suppose I have mask A for object A and mask B for object B. Now I want to add a mask that combines mask A and B. My purpose is to be able to duplicate this combo and then duplicate & invert it to get a mask of the background that excludes both A and B.
So glad to see a tutorial on Adobe camera raw for a change instead of Lightroom Lightroom Lightroom all day long. I love ACR. Can you say freedom?
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@@joelgrimes okay, now I remember you from digital grin 😁
I think something is wrong - I clicked on the above link to download the sample picture. I never got the email and it is not in my library. Thanks
it's an amazing edit…some of us just add a filter to it and that's it 😂
Whatever works!
Too much separation between sky and ground for me.
So I prefer doing small adjustments in ACR, and them work in Photoshop layers.
It's a creative process for sure. I personally love the lossless workflow of using ACR. But, Whatever gets your image where you want it!
I love that you don't use Lightroom. I'm shocked that so many do. Acr is far more colour accurate
I know, right?
I would have thought doing this to the original raw file, rather than a tiff, would make more sense. Particularly when you say you're using a " raw converter". There's also some pretty nasty haloing around the high contrast edges that hasn't been addressed. Just sayin'.!
Thanks for the feedback Mark, doing this in real time for a tutorial things for sure get missed.
These new tools are useful, but they only work well for a scene that has sort of an unbusy skyline. Better than before, I guess but far from plug and play.
It's a big improvement. Busy skies do take extra work though yes
i hate the updates bring back the old ones where you could actually get precise masks
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I don't like Lightroom. I do use Photoshop for most editing. For portraits I like Capture One. I'm not too good at Photoshop yet. * Your thingamajig looks like an Aztec in a serape with a basket on her head.
𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐦 😉