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Using the masking tools to adjust a portion of an image - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop 2023 Essential Training
Using the masking tools to adjust a portion of an image
- [Instructor] Previously we've made global adjustments to our images, meaning that the adjustments have affected the entire photo. Now we're going to see how to use the masking tools in Camera Raw in order to make adjustments to just selective areas in our image. With these three photos selected, I'll use Command + R in order to open them in Camera Raw. And we'll begin with the waterfall image. In order to select only a portion of the image, I'll click on the mask icon. We can see that there are a number of different masks that we can create. Subject, sky, background, objects, as well as the people masks are driven by AI and ML, so artificial intelligence and machine learning. So Camera Raw is going to help us to make those selections, whereas with the brush and the linear gradient and the radial gradient, we're going to have to manually draw those. And then there's also the option to use a color range, luminance range…
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A tour of the Camera Raw interface6m 27s
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Removing distortions and cropping photos6m 34s
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Working with profiles and presets7m 21s
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Enhancing contrast, color, and tone9m 20s
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Removing distracting elements9m 20s
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Using the masking tools to adjust a portion of an image15m 53s
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Using masking to retouch portraits5m 42s
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Black-and-white vintage color toning effects7m 34s
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Saving and opening files in Photoshop5m 46s
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