Quick Photoshop Secrets 19: Create An Instant Perfect Luminosity Mask

A tutorial showing you how to create a perfect luminosity mask in Photoshop that will work for any scene.

[Colmkeating]

Thanks as always for the tutorial Jimmy. this is one of the most helpful one yet. I've always had issues with this, it's really great to know how to adjust the masks now.

[billm]

Well done Jimmy! I have Raya Pro and am working through the tutorials however I am going to try this on my Antelope Canyon Photos where the sky is very light>

[DannyBott]

I'd really love to know what in camera settings you use for landscape/astrophotography and what different times you shoot

[skynet]

Hi Jimmy, thanks for the cool tip! Your videos are really inspirational!

[kysersoze]

Great tutorial as always!, Thank you very much Jimmy, BTW, Do yo have any recommendations for a good tripod that is no more than 200-300 US? I have a cheap Dolica that I want to replace as now I'm doing more really long exposures (5 minutes) and I need it to be really sturdy; If you could make some gear recommendations with associate links from Amazon or B&H that would be really helpful and at the same time we can support you more by using those links and you get a percentage, I've seen other photographers doing that but I'd rather use your links to buy stuff and support you at the same time, Thanks!

[attallahhichem]

Hi Jimmy :) & thank you for those helpfull tutorials
I want to creat a batch actions in photoshop for a timelapse serie editing " specialy to use luminosity masks with raya panel for adjustements & apply it for multiple images ...
When I lunch the actions i get errors :( is there any way to do it ?

[ManoharTejomurtula]

Quick question Jimmy, your keyboard shortcut for hiding the marching ants does not work on my mac. When I use Cmd+H, it hides photoshop, just like it would hide any other application. How do you use that shortcut to hide the marching ants only?

[angelobufalino]

Jimmy, just purchased Raya Pro 2.0 and when following these steps using CS6 I get "The command duplicate is not available" when selecting manual adjust. Please help.

[slothsarecool]

Seems easier to just merge in lightroom and drag highlights down no? I can see how this would be more flexible in some cases

[jacek_poplawski]

I think this is just selection based on channel, not luminosity mask. This soft transition is the reason I started using LM (and I don't even do landscapes but portraits).