5 Mask and Adjust Specific Areas
One of the early appeals of Lightroom was that it didn’t have Photoshop’s complexity. No need to create layers or paint with brushes. Often, though, you’ll want to make adjustments to specific areas.
The masking features in Lightroom Classic not only facilitate those types of local edits, they use machine learning to create accurate selections. Ask it to work on just the sky, or pick out the subject of a photo, and the tools build the correct masks in a matter of seconds.
Lesson A: Create a Mask and Apply Adjustments
Import the image files in the “05 Mask and Adjust” folder that you downloaded as part of the ...
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