Having been laid up the last few days were a cold, I decided while relaxing in front of my computer and looking at some photography sites that I wanted to learn more about luminosity masks. I had previously watched a video but really didn’t understand how it worked. In searching the web I found a site Tony Kuyper Photography http://goodlight.us/writing/tutorials.html and if you click the special link at the top you can download a PDF file on how to use luminosity masks plus a number of plug-ins for Photoshop at only a cost of $10 (I do not have an affiliated basis or receive compensation). So now I am going to show you my first attempt at using luminosity masks. This is a photograph taken at Horseneck Beach, Westport Massachusetts after sunset with the moon in the sky along with a number of constellations including Orion.
'For a thorough discussion of luminosity masking – and to see some beautiful landscape images of the Colorado Plateau area – check out Tony Kuyper’s web site. Tony has a great tutorial and offers a number of masking actions which you can download for a small donation.
This photograph is the original post-processing attempt.
Today I took the original raw file opened the file in Lightroom and did some basic adjustments and then exported the file is to Photoshop. Duplicated the image Control-J, I then opened Topaz Clarity and ran my preset “Milky Way”.
Next, following the directions in Luminosity Masks, I opened up the Channels palette, created the marching ants, and then click the save button at the bottom of the Channels palette, I renamed the new channel to lights. I then created a new adjustment layer – Curves and adjusted the curves layer to darken the highlights. I then repeated the steps as described in the tutorial to pick out only the brightest highlights and then did another curves layer to darken them to my liking.
| Luminosity mask with marching ants |
| RBG would marching ants |
| Adding Curve layer |
Because the beach was was black and I wanted to lighten it, utilizing the quick selection tool I selected the beach and then first it a levels adjustment and then ran the Adobe camera raw filter on the selection to adjusted to my liking.
| Utilizing selection tool to select the beach and then adjusting with a level selection and Adobe camera raw filter |
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The final image with the moon, clouds, the beach, constellations including Orion
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