Photo Mastery Club Blog

Sometimes Photoshops Clone Stamp Tool can be difficult to use, and it’s not the perfect fit for every cloning situation.

In this video I’ll show you an alternative method of cloning that doesn’t use any of the various cloning tools (like the patch tool and the various healing brushes)…

This technique is as simple as it gets, but is often a better solution than the tools specifically designed for cloning…

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ3htFrBUOc

Did you know that Luminosity selections in photoshop can be used for more than just luminosity masking?

In this video I’m going to show you a cool way to use luminosity selections NOT in a mask to enhance your photos and put another tool in your Photoshop toolkit.

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Luminosity Masking Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLj-ISJukb5AoxJBqj5GuHH7TW0xjy95PL

If you’d like to see how I organise all the seemingly random editing techniques I’ve learned and taught over the years into a cohesive and structured editing workflow, then click below to download my free workflow guide.

In this video I’m showing you a quick photoshop technique to help you refine and hone in on the perfect luminosity mask, using the dodge and burn tools.

The amount of isolation a luminosity mask provides depends on the amount of contrast within it. So when you preview your luminosity mask, the more greys in the preview, the less isolation and the more blended the two layers will be. The more black and white in the preview, the more isolation there’ll be between those objects.

Once you’ve created a luminosity mask, there’ll be times where you want to fine tune its contrast manually in certain areas. And that’s where the dodge and burn tools come in.

If you’re not already familiar with luminosity masking then I’ll recommend checking out some of the links to my other youtube videos here:

How To Blend Exposures in Photoshop (Luminosity Masking): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r11QIKBxFqo

Layer Masking in Photoshop: 3 Advanced Tips: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZF-pfiV7Ig

Master Layers & Masks (Playlist): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLj-ISJukb5ApNcbYFSiLJfrL7QDZM9sq3

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Sick of your sharpened images looking “crunchy”?

Most likely it’s due to micro halos being caused by the sharpening process you’re using.

Here is a step you can add to the regular high pass sharpening photoshop technique that will banish those horrible sharpening halos forever.

If you’ve ever struggled to get your images to look super sharp, but without looking crunchy and over sharpened, this technique will help – no matter what sharpening technique you use.

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And if you’d like to see how I organise all the seemingly random editing techniques I’ve learned and taught over the years into a cohesive and structured editing workflow, then click the link below to download my free workflow guide.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NW9TbL-tScc

Welcome to part 4 in this series of videos demonstrating how to use the Luminosity Masking Panel for Photoshop.

Here we get into the handy collection of one-click shortcuts that the panel offers to make it super quick and easy to add contrast and light to your image, with luminosity masks already applied to those adjustments.

Check out the other links below for the other parts in this series, or click here to download the Luminosity Masking Panel

**Luminosity Masking Panel Video Series**

Part 1: https://youtu.be/jU3IDvMriAc
Part 2: https://youtu.be/oJiS0OwR3gA
Part 3: https://youtu.be/vsY\_xgqIVKw
Part 4: https://youtu.be/NW9TbL-tScc
Part 5: Coming soon