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Luminosity Masks

I’ve made my luminosity mask set available for everyone. What’s a luminosity mask, you say? It’s a way to select parts of an image based on brightness. For example, you might want to darken the deepest shadows of your image a little more. Or, you might want to warm just the highlights of your image. This action set will do it. With it, you can select 5 brightness ranges including Super Darks, Darks, Midtones, Lights, and Super Lights. Once selected, use the included color toning actions (or any of your own actions) to enhance your image.

I use these on my images, because I don’t want the heavy-handed approach of adjusting the entire image at once. You could do similar work with curves, but it’s a lot easier having Photoshop select the tonal values for you!

The action set features 11 luminosity mask actions + 4 color toning actions. This action set is available for immediate download. I use to sell these on my old site (KillTheAmbient.com) but have since moved them here. To get an idea of what you can do with it, check out the video below!

If you’d like the actions, just click here to purchase. The price for the action set is $59.