Selections can also be inverted to exclude a subject or sky from being tweaked (For example, selecting the sky and inverting the selection to apply edits to just the terrain).Capturing stunning photography on an iPad is possible. Users can select a subject or sky to quickly make an adjustment. Lightroom’s new tools are organized in a new masking panel and work similarly to their Photoshop counterparts. Adobe also used the surveys to learn about what customers liked about the existing selection tools in Lightroom and Lightroom Classic. The new masking functionality represents the biggest change to providing control over selectively enhancing photos since the release of Lightroom 2.Īdobe started working on Lightroom’s new masking features over a year ago and surveyed “tens of thousands of customers” to try to understand the biggest pain points they faced when making selections. Lightroom 2, released in 2008, introduced the brush, linear gradient, and radial gradient tools enabling direct selective adjustments in a non-destructive, photography-specific environment. Adobe claims this is the biggest change to selectively editing photos since the release of Lightroom 2.Įarly versions of Photoshop introduced tools like the dodge and burn tools, as well as selections, masking, layers, and layer masks which enabled photographers to make selective adjustments in the digital darkroom.

Photoshop has offered Select Subject and Sky Replacement tools for quite some time, and now Adobe is bringing those powerful masking capabilities to Lightroom and Lightroom Classic to make selective adjustments in Adobe Camera Raw.

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