Oct 04, 2015 sean bagshaws complete guide to luminosity masks 2nd edition video series is available at. Tony kuyper has created a fantastic tutorial on generating and using luminosity masks in photoshop. User interface, workflow sections, core processor, and deployment options mirror the tk7 rapidmask module. Im very happy to announce the new tk basic v6 panel for photoshop. I used luminosity masks to affect only the highlights on the peaks in this image. Tony kuyper luminosity masks you can sleep when youre dead. If youve just finished the fit test or a workout, you can go to the games tab to play the games again. Then look in the properties panel and reduce the masks density to 60% to fade that restriction. An introduction to luminosity masks capturelandscapes. Lumositys cognitive training program is a fun, interactive way to train your brain and learn about how your mind works. Youll create luminosity masks as channels in your channels panel. Our subject this week is luminosity masking in photoshop. Tony kuypers pack can generate many grades of intercepted luminosity masks to pick out successively e. The advantage of it over other selection tools is its ability to produce highly targeted and customizable selection with seamless feathering.
The videos demonstrate how to use luminosity masks and many of the other techniques in the tutorials on this website. Lumosity is a free app, designed by scientists and designers, which features games designed to improve your memory, cognitive abilities, and problemsolving skills, through a daily mental training program. How to create and use luminosity masks in adobe photoshop. Sean bagshaws complete guide to luminosity masks 2nd edition video series is available at. Begin with a free 10minute fit test to set your baseline scores and see how you. Because they are based on pixellevel data, their tones perfectly match the. Load the highlights selection and use it as a layer mask to restrict the dodging to only the highlight areas.
Our games team is hard at work building new exercises for lumosity in other languages, though we cannot disclose our time frame for that. The basics of luminosity masks in digital blending 500px. Use the same technique to create a shadows burn layer. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Free panel to make 16bit luminosity masks good light journal. Luminosity masks need to be fast and intuitive in order to become a. May 27, 2015 use luminosity masks to enhance your landscape photography. The tk basic v6 panel and videos are available as a free download on. For example, you can brighten your photo and then apply luminosity how to use luminosity masking in photoshop read more. Its ok to just use a soft brush directly on the layer mask in certain cases but be aware that this will cause a certain degree of haloing around the area youre adjusting. Luminosity masking this is an exciting class that will present the theory and utilization of actions created by tony kuyper to do advanced luminosity masking.
Tony kuyper pioneered the luminosity mask techniques that have become widely used by photographers for digital development in photoshop. Well see how to copy the luminosity mask to its own layer and combine it with one of photoshops layer blend modes to increase. The tk panel also generates 16bit masks by default, which is nice. The luminosity masks generated are placed on the channels panel, so check. Only this time, use the burn tool to deepen the shadow areas and use the shadow. This tutorial gives a very clear explanation of what luminosity masks are and how they can be used. To test some of these new elements, ive created a minipanel image below focused on just making 16bit luminosity masks, like the downloadable actions that were available in the previous blog posts. Use luminosity masks to enhance your landscape photography. Luminosity masking is a term you may have heard of, but maybe youre not exactly sure what it is or how to do it. Tony kuypers luminosity masks kostas petrakis photography. Free braintraining program featuring fun and challenging games. Tony kuyper prepared a set of luminosity mask action for photoshop elements. Please note that sites in languages other than english currently offer 28 games, whereas the english site offers over 60 games.
They are derived from the image data itself, and focused on a specific range of tonal values. Train your brain through challenging games with lumosity for android. A rough and quick description of the essentials you could use to blend multiple exposures using tony kuypers luminosity masks. For example, if you ran the luminosity mask actions on a darker exposure, you would gain a full range of dark and midtone luminosity masks, but very few, if any, workable bright masks, because the darker exposure is lacking in highlights. As we saw, this makes the color mode perfect for such things as colorizing black and white photos, and its also great for more common tasks like changing someones. Illuminate your photos using topaz and luminosity masks. Similar to raya pro, it also includes several other adjustments and options that you might find beneficial in your workflow. Blending exposures using luminosity masks tutorial. I havent seen it discussed in the retouching forum so here comes a headsup. Sean bagshaw has recorded an excellent set of videos entitled the complete guide to luminosity masks.
For any of you who ever need to make changes to just a part of an image and who hasnt, these masks make it a lot easier and a lot more effective. Luminosity masks map the luminance of each pixel as a grayscale value in the mask. This introduction to luminosity masks teaches you what you need to know about this popular technique. They are created by taking the luminance value of each pixel and assigning it. With the new custom panel these same actions can now be run with a. The games adapt to how well youre doing, constantly offering a challenge or scaling back if.
So youll need to understand the basics of photoshop masking and channels to get the most. How to use luminosity masks for landscape and cityscape image. Tony kuyper is a talented photographer located in arizonausa. I now use tony kuypers rapidmask panel for luminosity masks, a free version of. Ilm allows the interactive creation of custom luminosity masks selections with instantaneous visual feedback. Tony kuypers tk action panel is another popular panel for photoshop. Mar 27, 2020 luminosity masks is a way of creating layer masks. It has the same core process and speed as the more comprehensive rapidmask2 module, and has similar features and layout. It is simply a new panel for people who want a fast and simple way to start working with luminosity masks. Also contains instructions pdf, installation guides, best practices for color management, and training videos by sean bagshaw. His captures are truly wonderful and always exhibit the finest in terms of capture, light and postprocessing. How to use luminosity masking in photoshop photoshop. Ive been using tony kuyper s method and his photoshop panel for a number of years. Luminosity masks are also selections but rather than an area, they are based on tonal values.
Honestly, its a lot quicker and more intuitive with the tk panel to create masks of a specific range, especially if you have the infinity mask plugin. Like its predecessor, the tk7 panel is modular, so users can configure it in whatever manner works best in their workspace. Ive been using tony kuypers method and his photoshop panel for a number of years. Luminosity mask techniques pioneered by tony kuyper provide the highest degree of control over creative image developing and have become an essential image developing tool for me and many top outdoor photographers world wide. Luminosity masks and exposure blending this is where luminosity masks get really exciting. Apr 08, 2014 luminosity masks and exposure blending this is where luminosity masks get really exciting. The benefit of using these types of masks is that when targeting tonal ranges the mask itself is selffeathering, helping to avoid problems with blending and. Since luminosity masks allow us to make selections based on brightness, we can be very creative in how we apply this to certain scenes. Lately ive been experimenting with several features that could make photoshop extension panels easier to install and use. Ive been using luminosity masking for nr, sharpening and local contrast and colour enhancement in pse but the process of creating the masks was quite convoluted so i.
A message from tony kuyper complete guide to luminosity. Complete guide to luminosity masks 2nd edition sean bagshaw. The tk7 panel is the newest release of the comprehensive panel for making luminosity masks and running photoshop. So the discussion on tony kuypers actions, how they work, how to use them, and that they even are available on his website for free as an action, furthered what i already knew about luminosity masks and what i might do to improve on. Tony kuyper luminosity masks natures best by don smith.
The problem has always been striking a fine balance between sharpness and excessive noise. Luminosity mask actions recorded to specifically work in photoshop elements but will work in full versions of photoshop as well. Luminosity masksget ready to fly tony kuyper photography. Luminosity masks are powerful tools for making precise and creative image adjustments in photoshop. Once you have the selection you need, you can then apply any adjustments to it different kinds of tonal, color adjustments, sharpening, etc. Tony kuyper s tk action panel is another popular panel for photoshop. Download lumosity for pclumosity on pc andy android.
Nov 02, 2014 tony kuyper prepared a set of luminosity mask action for photoshop elements. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading mastering luminosity masks. How to use luminosity masks in photoshop to transform your. In fact, i wrote about luminosity selections, and tonys photoshop actions to make these selections, in some of my early ebooks on photoshop.
They are created by taking the luminance value of each pixel and assigning it a specific grayscale value in the mask. My postprocessing time is generally limited to cleaning up the dust spots, making a few curves adjustments, sharpening, and more recently, tapping into tony kuypers awesome luminosity masks. Instructorswhile written tutorials and videos offer significant assistance in learning these techniques, sometimes a more personalized approach or facetoface time with an expert is the best way to get up to speed on what luminosity masks can offer. Luminosity selections are the most important tool in luminosity masking, because they can be used to create much more advanced luminosity masks that target specific areas of the image much more effectively than a general l5 mask, for example. All images have a tonal range from 0 pure black to 255 pure white and everything in between is a various shade of grey from super dark to super light. Jun 04, 2015 june 4, 2015 august 24, 2019 tony kuyper lately ive been experimenting with several features that could make photoshop extension panels easier to install and use. Luminosity masks are one of the most powerful processing techniques in photoshop for landscape. Luminosity masks are basically layer masks that are built around specific tones in an image.
You can also find a free download of photoshop actions. Used by over 100 million people worldwide, lumositys program consists of sciencebased games designed to exercise memory, attention, speed, flexibility and problemsolving. As with all things photoshop, there are multiple ways to achieve the same result. Over the years tony has refined his actions, and recently he produced a completely new photoshop action panel version 3. Weve exposed for the foreground so rather typically the brightest part of the sky is overexposed. Probably 80% of the luminosity masks i create were painted via luminosity selections. Luminosity masks, also known as luminance masks, are a way of making advanced selections in photoshop based on luminosity values. Ive been using luminosity masking for nr, sharpening and local contrast and colour enhancement in pse but the process of creating the masks was quite convoluted so i wouldnt use this technique too. Aug 07, 2017 luminosity masks are a fantastic way to make precise selections based on luminance values hence the name.
With foundations in the study of neuroplasticity, lumosity games are used in research, and have been incorporated into studies done by top scientists worldwide. Launch the game and you can now play lumosity on pc using a mouse or your keyboard and even your touchscreen, you can use the control button to emulate the pinch function to zoom in and out. Below you can see a cropped image which shows before and after applying luminosity masks to the stars. Im excited by a new technique ive come across utilizing tony kuypers triple play action. Interactive luminosity masks the interactive luminosity mask ilm panel is a novel adobe photoshop extension for creating luminosity in a more efficient and user friendly way. I would much prefer to spend that time playing outside and perfecting the image in the field rather than photoshopping it later. In this photo retouching tutorial, well learn how to boost the contrast and color saturation of an image in photoshop using whats called a luminosity mask, a littleknown trick for selecting pixels in an image based on their luminosity, or lightness, values.
Lumosity is designed by neuroscientists to train memory, attention, and more. But for exposure blending, we need something more powerful than the three colour channels available to us. On an iphone or ipad, youll need to install the lumosity app in the app store. If you record the steps of creating a luminosity mask as an action, as well do in this movie, you wont have to go to the trouble of manually creating luminosity mask channels in other photos that you want to adjust. Im going to try to simplify that for you, but this is a pro technique. Luminosity masks are a fantastic way to make precise selections based on luminance values hence the name. How to use luminosity masks for landscape and cityscape. The complete instructions pdf describes how to install the panel, how to. It includes all the features of the previous v6 panel plus many new ones. Luminosity masks target specific tones in the image during digital development. Dec 14, 2017 luminosity masks are powerful tools for making precise and creative image adjustments in photoshop. I have received direct permission from tony to teach this class and his intellectual property.
Instead of a spatial selection where the marching ants enclose a specific area or element in an image, luminosity selections are tonebased. Free panel to make 16bit luminosity masks good light. Ive been working with tony for a number of years on testing his tools and. Aug 23, 2010 tony kuyper is a talented photographer located in arizonausa. The button below opens a list of instructors that routinely contact me when. A photoshop users guide kindle edition by odell, jason. The difference is in how the panels are laid out and how intuitive they are to actually use in practice.
How to make 16bit luminosity masks good light journal. On the previous page, we looked at photoshops color blend mode which blends the color information hue and saturation of a layer with the layer or layers below it while ignoring the lightness values. For example we can use luminosity masks to brighten up and add more drama to a milky way image. The converse is true for a strongly overexposed image. Luminosity masking using tony kuypers actions keith. We need to create our own, more advanced luminosity masks. Apr 18, 2014 tony kuyper s pack can generate many grades of intercepted luminosity masks to pick out successively e. So the discussion on tony kuypers actions, how they work, how to use them, and that they even are available on his website for free as an action, furthered what i already knew about luminosity masks and what i might do to improve on my images using ps, topaz, or whatever. For example, lets say we are looking at a beautiful sunset shot in photoshop. It described a process for creating selections and masks in photoshop based on the brightness values of the image.
Ive used his previous actions, but his latest panel is amazing. Ilm allows the interactive creation of custom luminosity masksselections with. The complete guide to luminosity masks video series. Complete guide to luminosity masks 2nd edition sean. Learn the techniques behind one of the most popular processing methods. For example, you can brighten your photo and then apply luminosity masking so that it doesnt overexpose the. But actually selecting that specific area can be extremely difficult, especially if there are fine, overlapping details, trying to use the standard selection. His postprocessing skills always amazed me and the fact that he shares them with the rest of the community made him an even more respectful photographer to my eyes. Begin with a free 10minute fit test to set your baseline scores and see how you compare with.
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