Practical Photoshop

THE POWER OF LUMINOSITY MASKING

uminosity masking is a powerful technique for making selective tonal adjustments. It’s a favorite with landscape photographers, offering precise control over the brightness of different tonal ranges. Essentially, luminosity masking allows us to create selections of different areas of brightness. In our coastal scene here, it means we can target the bright areas of sky around the sun, or the dark

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