From the course: Photoshop and Lightroom: Portrait Retouching in the Age of AI

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Small masks for big impact

Small masks for big impact

From the course: Photoshop and Lightroom: Portrait Retouching in the Age of AI

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Small masks for big impact

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- [Chris] Sometimes masking will help us to make these big bold adjustments to our photographs. Other times we can use masking to make simple and small corrections, which we'll be looking at here in this movie with these three images. So navigate to the Develop module and let's start off on one of the images. It doesn't really matter which one. And with this image, I love the mood and feeling, I like how it was captured, how I created it. But if you look down at the bottom of the dress down here, there's a little bit of blue color in this. And this can happen in shadows with garments that are lighter tones. It happens with wedding dresses all the time. So I don't like that, so I want to fix that. So I click on my icon for a mask. I'll go ahead and choose radial gradient and click and drag this out. Now, currently I have hard edges around that. I do not want that, I want feathered soft edges. I also want a color temperature, which is a little bit warmer, and I'll go ahead and move that…

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