How To Make Photoshop Type Selective Masks in Lightroom App | Lightroom Mobile | Android | iOS

Today we will be using some advanced masking techniques to do different edits on minute selections using Lightroom mobile app.

• This should apply to Desktop app too as it has almost the same features.
• You will learn how to add or subtract selections while using masks in this video.
• This is the image I am gonna work with.
• It's a jpeg converted from RAW, still lot of details for us to recover.
• Starting here from the Light menu.
• Increasing the Exposure.
• Also Shadows to get as many details from the foreground.
• Not too worried regarding the background right now as we will be altering it a bit.
• Now I am gonna directly go to the Masking menu, the first one in this list.
• Here I will be doing separate edits with the main subject in my mind.
• Tapping this plus button, you can see the options here.
• I will be choosing Select subject to select the person.
• Adobe AI has made a quite good selection here, I will go with it.
• Other than the subject, I want to also add parts of the foreground to this selection
• as I will be doing similar edits there.
• Tapping on the plus/minus button and choosing Add to "Mask 1", then Linear Gradient.
• Dragging the gradient to get parts of the foreground here.
• You can see the selection is added to the main subject.
• I will be also making different edit to the background.
• So long tapping the mask, I am gonna choose Duplicate & Invert mask.
• Here you have got a new mask now with the background selected.
• Just a bit of tuning the selection.
• Moving the linear gradient a bit up.
• Going back to the original mask, increasing whites to pop the foreground.
• Also adding saturation in Color menu.
• Bit of clarity in Effects menu.
• You can hide and show the mask for before and after the mask edits.
• Now going to the background mask.
• Reducing the Exposure a lot here.
• Will recover some of it in the Effects menu by adding haze by dragging the Dehaze slider to the left.
• Making the background a bit dull compared to the foreground.
• Now I am gonna add one more mask only of the subject.
• Here increasing the Whites.
• Adding more temperature to make the subject warm.
• I'm gonna try displacing the location of the sun here.
• To do that, first I am gonna add radial filter on top of the location of the sun.
• Making sure the feather is set to 100.
• First reducing the Exposure.
• Also Whites and Blacks.
• Increasing the shadows to reduce contrast.
• Also reducing the temperature to remove warm colors.
• One Linear gradient around the top right corner till it covers almost the whole background.
• Reducing the exposure to make that part darker.
• Adding some temperature as I will be adding sunlight to the sky.
• Now a few radial filters.
• One bigger one.
• Adding haze using Dehaze slider.
• More temperature.
• Adding orangish tones in the Color menu.
• One more radial gradient around here.
• Doing similar tuning.
• So with two radial filters, it has become more bright.
• One more small one around the left edge to replicate a shining evening sun.
• Adding more haze, more whites and bit more exposure.
• And temperature too in the Color menu.
• You can see we changed the complexion of the image completely here.
• Now a big radial filter which covers the whole left part.
• I am gonna invert the mask selection here.
• Now reducing the Exposure which basically affects outside of the radial filter.
• Adding bit of temperature.
• This also gives a vignette effect around the Sun.
• One linear filter at the bottom to make that part more dark.
• Reducing the Exposure.
• You can notice the back of the subject's head is more bright than his front.
• Will try to correct it by adding subject mask first.
• Then tapping subtract mask and choosing the brush option.
• Sliding this menu on the left, you can resize the brush...
• ... also tune the feather.
• Brushing on the subject.
• Note that we are basically removing the selection from the main subject here.
• Now we have only the back part of the head selected.
• Now tuning this part by reducing Highlights and Whites to make those parts dull.
• Similar edit now but for the front part of the face.
• I will duplicate this mask.
• Again subtracting the selection using brush option, this time to select only the front
• portion of the head.
• Reset the sliders.
• Tuning to make these parts pop a bit more.
• Now for some Global tuning.
• Going to Color menu>MIX.
• Doing some individual color tuning.
• Tuning contrast with Curves in the Light menu.
• Adding selective sharpening in Detail menu.
• Using Masking slider to get only parts of the image selected.
• The final result here.

Hope you found some useful tips regarding how to use masks in Lightroom.