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in many ways Tony capers actions and the
use of luminosity masks in Photoshop
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have become synonymous but luminosity
masking capabilities have been part of
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Photoshop and in use by photographers
and graphic artist since the beginning
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Photoshop just doesn't provide an
obvious intuitive efficient way to take
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full advantage of these tools so until
2006 when Tony caper began writing about
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luminosity masks and creating actions
for them they remained unknown to most
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photographers using Photoshop every
luminosity selection and mass that the
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TK Actions panel generates can be
created by hand loading the most simple
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luminosity selections only requires one
or two clicks but the more targeted
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selections in Midtown selections each
requires dozens of repetitive steps to
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create tony's first set of actions
automated the production of the basic
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lights Midtown's in darks mass but off
center mid tone and zone selection still
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had to be created by hand in 2014 Tony
introduced the v3 panel which featured
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progressive actions and these greatly
reduce the number of steps required to
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access the more complex luminosity
selections the 2015 v4 panel makes the
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use of luminosity mass even more
intuitive inefficient by creating any
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mask no matter how many steps are
required to produce it the single button
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click in addition the v4 panel uses an
alternate and even more complex
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procedure to produce all luminosity
selections in mass in a sixteen-bit
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workflow instead of using intermediate
eight bits elections all of the
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techniques I demonstrate in the complete
guide to luminosity mask videos can be
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accomplished with manually created masks
or with any of the previous versions of
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the TK actions however the v4 panel is
more efficient and powerful than any
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other option I'm aware of and as many
advanced features so I'll be using it
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throughout these tutorials just as they
do in my daily photoshop work
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additionally the v4 panel can do many
non luminosity mask functions it
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literally a custom control center for
all things photography there one click
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buttons for most of the common tasks
that photographers do in Photoshop so
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it's no longer necessary to search
through is meeting me
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news in panels or remembers me keyboard
shortcuts and tony is also included
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actions for creative effects total
clarity adjustments saturation masking
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in sharpening for the web when you
purchase the v4 panel includes written
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instructions color management settings
and PDF versions of all the tutorials on
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Tony capers website all these documents
come in the Photoshop cs6 panel download
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people have the Creative Cloud version
of the v4 panel can click on this button
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in the panel which takes you did this
page where the documents can be
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downloaded for free in addition I
produced a video guide to take actions
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this is essentially the video tutorial
version of Tony's written instructions
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like the written instructions the videos
cover uninstalling older versions of the
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TK actions installing the new v40
Actions panel important Photoshop
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settings and customizing the Photoshop
workspace the videos also explain the
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function of every tab button and action
on the panel if you recently purchased
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the v4 panel I recommend that you first
read the written instructions and color
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management practices or watch video
guide to Tk actions and then move ahead
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with the more advanced than specific
luminosity mass techniques in this video
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series complete guide to luminosity mass
provides instructions on a variety of
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luminosity mass techniques he learned a
lot about the teak Actions panel and how
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I use it but it isn't intended to be a
comprehensive or logically sequence
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instruction manual for the panel