This can vary from extremely accurate to wildly wrong. Clicking on the subject tool will analyze the scene and identify what it believes to be the main subject in the image. The masking tools are found under the histogram The Basic Masking Tools Let’s take a brief look at these basic masking tools. Each does exactly as the name suggests, although you may have to edit the mask to get it perfect.īeneath the three main masking tools are six further icons for, Objects, Brush, Linear Gradient, Radial Gradient, Range, and a new addition, People. Here you will find the three main masks at the top, namely Subject, Sky, and Background. On an image with no masking, a window opens underneath the icon. It is the right-hand side of the editing tabs found underneath the histogram in the Develop Module. The masking tools now have a completely dedicated section to themselves that manifests as a pop-out when selected. The Lightroom Classic interface has changed around a bit in the last couple of years. Will will be including the latest April 2023 update that added tone curves to the tools. Today we are going to delve into Lightroom’s amazing masking tools and how to use them. The interface in which they are used has also subtly changed. Over the years, Lightroom’s masking tools have become increasingly powerful. Those select areas require masking to prevent us from wandering outside the area we are working on. As photographers, we often tweak color or exposure in select areas to help take the viewer's eye to a specific part of the image.
Perhaps one of the most useful functions and a relatively late addition to Lightroom is its masking tools.
Times have changed, and I would say that 90% of what most photographers need in an app is now achievable in Lightroom Classic. Lightroom used to be the image management part of Adobe’s photography apps.
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