HOW TO...MASTER LUMINOSITY MASKS
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HOW TO...MASTER LUMINOSITY MASKS

Luminosity masking is a powerful editing technique that can be used for making selective tonal adjustments. Essentially, luminosity masking allows us to create selections around different areas of brightness, and it’s often favoured by landscape photographers because it offers a fine degree of control over the areas of an image that are selected.

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