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INSPIRATION WEDNESDAY // Inside Outside

This colour collage speaks for itself, be inspired and have fun with your next project!

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Add Depth To Your Landscapes With Color Range Masks

Add depth and dimension to your landscape photos with proper adjustments of colors. Cool colors retreat from a viewer’s eye. Warm colors move toward the human eye. Brighter subjects catch attention and darker areas do not. Color range masks let you quickly target colors in your photos and adjust them to amplify depth in your landscape images.

In this photo of a tree stump at the edge of a forest, I want the tree to jump forward and grab my viewer’s eye. I also want the greens to retreat and not compete for attention with the tree stump. Color range masks made isolating and treating the different tonal ranges very easy.

First, I used a color range mask sampling the chalky gray of the tree. That selection allowed targeted clarity and contrast to amplify the details in the tree stump, without affecting the surrounding greenery.

Next, a second color range masks sampled the greens of the background. I lowered the highlights and reduced clarity, to darken and soften the Some additional hand-painting to refine the mask was needed. The stump had a few patches of moss that I didn’t want darkened.

I finished up the edit with a light vignette.

The end result is the tree stump is more prominent in the frame, the first fades into the background, and the overall photo has richer depth. Try out these types of color adjustments in your images for richer, visually compelling landscape images.

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When Should I Use A Color Range Mask In Lightroom?

My last post about the Lightroom color range mask generated some questions. The biggest one - when should I use a color range mask instead of the HSL sliders?

You should use color range masks when HSL adjustments affect more colors than you want. HSL offers some control over separating colors. To guarantee no impact outside of only the hues you want to impact, you need to reach for a color range mask. I have an example that shows where HSL falls short and the color range mask is the solution.

In some cases, HSL is perfectly fine. In this same photo, adjusting the saturation in the sky with HSL works great. Why? There are not many blue hues in the photo. Working with HSL yields the desired adjustment with no side effects.

So… HSL has its place, just like color range masks do.

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