macros Easily customizable luminosity masks

[stroiman]

Hi there.

After seeing a video with Nick Page using Lumenzia in Photoshop, I was inspired to do luminosity masks in a new and much more customizable way than the much used 5 levels of brigths, midtones, and darks.

With these macros, when you create a light, midtones, or dark mask, it doesn't create the mask immediately, but applies 3 adjustments: a B&W, a Curves, and a Levels adjustment. Now you can adjust the three fine tune whatwhat you want in your selection. And using B&W adjustment you can more easily target specific colors.

The only difference between the 3 that the curves layer is inverted in the darks, and peaks at the halfway point in the midtones mask.

When you are happy with the selection, select the "Complete" macro, which will create a selection, and a new spare channel from the selection.

Hope you find this useful.

 

Stroiman's Luminosity Masks.afmacros

[rvmpl9]

Interesting! Thanks for sharing. 

[Hilltop]

Haven't been able to look at it yet but it seems quite useful. Thank you for sharing!

[Max P]

yes it allows very subtle local adjustments once apprehended

Test in lab mode, with the gray layer L separated from the color

[Marimo]

Thanks a lot, it works very good  👍

[Nicholas Jefferson]

Thank you @stroiman! It's great!

I am also currently improving my skills with luminosity masks.

I recently worked with moonlight photography and found great material on this (here). I got a great result! Perhaps it will also be interesting to you.