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in the previous segment we saw that a
luminosity selection
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is a selection based on the luminosity
values within the image
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but I find that knowing what a
luminosity selection is
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just makes me think a behold much new
questions curfew
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how do you make a luminosity selection
what exactly is being selected
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once a luminosity selection is made how
does become a luminosity mask
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and is a luminosity selection like any
other selection but explore these
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questions one at a time
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how do you make a luminosity selection
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as with all things in Photoshop there
are multiple ways to accomplish the same
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result
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I'll show you two ways making a
luminosity selection one is to hold down
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the Control key
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or the command key on a Mac and then
click
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on the channel from which you want to
make the selection in this case
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the RGB channel I can also make a
selection
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from the red channel where the green
channel for the blue channel
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by holding down the control or command
key and clicking on the channel
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the other way to make a luminosity
selection
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is to highlight the channel that you
want to make the selection from
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and then click the load channel as
selection icon at the bottom of the
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channels panel
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for the red channel
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the green channel and the blue channel
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or the RGB channel either method you use
creates the same selected area as
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indicated by the marching ants
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if you aren't familiar with the term our
chance it's what we call the moving
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dotted lines outlines
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elections in Photoshop what exactly is
being selected
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a lot of marching ants appear on the
screen when a luminosity selection is
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made
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but it can be difficult to determine
exactly what has been selected
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tony and I find that using a ton
gradient is invaluable in helping us
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determine
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which luminosity values are included in
a selection to make a ton gradient start
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by creating a new white image document
it can be any size but 1000 pixels on
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the long side should fit well in most
screens
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for the color settings choose the RGB
color mode and it probably doesn't
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make too much difference but also select
the 16 bit depth
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to make sure that I have a smooth tonal
greedy now select a gradient tool
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set the foreground color to white and
the background color to black
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and now drag a gradient from one side
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the white image to the other side
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and the greedy all be created
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this is a document that contains all up
the luminosity values from pure white
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to cure black with very smooth gradient
have
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shades agree in between I recommend that
you create and save your own tone
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gradient to help you better visualize
luminosity selections
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you can save it has a to file or a PST
file
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collette Andrea and then open it up
whenever you want to visualize a
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luminosity selection
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now let's make a luminosity selection
the RGB channel
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up this greedy some hold down the
controller command key
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and click on the RGB channel you can
clearly see that is the lightest portion
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of the gradient
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that has been selected so it appears
that we are selecting the brightest
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luminosity values in the image
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Tony calls this initial in a nasty
selection
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above the brightest towns delights
selection because half the latest towns
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are selected
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I often refer to this as a fifty-percent
light selection but returned to our
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color image
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now I can see that the marching ants
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are indicating that the brightest
luminosity values in this image
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are selected 12 luminosity selection is
made
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how does become a luminosity mask let's
start by D selecting
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this current selection in Photoshop
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if you first make a selection like I did
previously when I use the quick
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selection tool
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to select the sky
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and then generate a new white mask
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for example when I create a Curves
adjustment layer as long as the
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selection was active when the mask was
made
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the mask will reflect the selection in
the mask the area inside the selection
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will be white
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revealing any adjustment made on that
layer and the area outside the selection
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will be black
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concealing any adjustments made on that
where luminosity selections are no
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different in this respect
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if you have a luminosity selection
active and then generate a new mask
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the mask will reflect the selection
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is a luminosity selection like any other
selection
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this is where masked men from luminosity
selection show their true worth
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the manassas elections are not by an
eerie like more simple selections
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that is to say that the pixels on a
luminosity selection
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are not either one hundred percent
selected or 100 percent
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not selected resulting in a pure white
and black mask
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to view a mask hold the Alt key
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or the Option key on a Mac and click to
mask thumbnail
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when we view the mask
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the original sky selection that we made
we can see that it is very simple
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all white or all black mask but when we
view the mask
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generated from the luminosity selection
we can see that it is a very different
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and very highly detailed mask
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now consider every pixel in the image
was actually selected somewhere between
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zero percent
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and a hundred percent based on its
luminosity 10 per cent being black in
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the mask
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100 per cent being white in the mask and
every other to grieve luminosity being
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partially selected
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the resulting in different shades of
grey so
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if every pixel other than pure black is
partially selected to some degree
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what did the marching ants in a
luminosity selection actually show us
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they're showing us regions in the image
in which the pixels are at least 50
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percent selected
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in the case at this current lights
selection the ants were drawn around
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a reserve the image in which the pixels
had a total value abruptly
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50 percent gray or lighter and therefore
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there at least 50 percent or more
selected
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now that we know how to make a basic
lights luminosity selection
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and then create a mask using that
selection let's find out what it would
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look like to make an adjustment using
the mask
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steady this image I'm gonna go to a
different image
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that has a little more contrast the
light it'll make a luminosity mass a
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little more
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obvious apparent before we go to
Amanda's the mask adjustment let's just
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try an adjustme