The Power of Subtract When Masking in Lightroom or Photoshop

GENIOUS!!! Solved my problem!!!!

it must be a new feature but you can select clothes now

Wow, great video !!!!! So many great ideas !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is the second video where watching you use the feathered edge of the brush taught me and reinforced a new technique.

Thanks Matt, very clearly explained as always!

can you use masks from lightroom/acr in photoshop for eg. compositions?

Thanks for sharing these great tips🙏🏼🙏🏼

Perfect I like to see more workarounds .. just like intersect which is missing in Lightroom, for example use sky mask and subtract with linear gradient then invert that would fix it

Excellent, helpful video. Thanks.

Excellent. I've been editing with these tools for a long time and never thought of what you just demonstrated. Thank you.

Really excellent video Matt! You just 💥 my mind. There are always more ways to skin the cat. Thanks!

Very useful ideas! Question: with all of the new masking options in LR, where is the line on when one is better off going to Photoshop? Thanks.

Excellent 👌

Thank you so very much, the wing tips of Red Kites have been driving me crazy, I was attempting, badly, to use the brush 😂 now using background and/or Sky it’s fixed, life saver, or sanity saver 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Cheers Matt 👍🏼

"Good enough" is actually be "great":

I think "perfection" when masking is actually not the way to go, because if you try to perfectly mask you will get "hard" edges and probably a fake look since it will look like a cutout. When masking I often try to feather en let the images have natural edge "blending" so that it feels real or natural.

Thanks....
What's your system specification

Very useful Matt, keep them coming

Just cleaned up the bleed between the wingtips of flying ducks using subtract sky. IT WORKED!!!!!!! Those BIF shots are going to be rescued. Thanks Matt.

Thank
you Matt! Great methods on masking problem areas in Lightroom.

Thanks Matt for the linear gradient subtract tip! Really helpful in my landscapes. And when were you in Ridgway...based on that quick pic in PS of chimney rock and court house :) 😃 👌

Couldn’t you also select auto mask with the brush when subtracting? It would help with the edges.

Thank you! You are always a helping hand!

Thanks Matt. I've got to ask, is that LR the latest version? What with the way the masking tools work. I think I am one iteration back and it won't run on Mac OS running Catalina.

always great information Matt

Matt, another great video. "Put down that brush !" I needed this. I want to compliment your bird photography, another level ! Just started shooting birds this year and it's a lot harder than it looks !

This is a great video tip

Great presentation. I dove into bird photography a year ago and these methods of masking will save a lot of time. I appreciate you sharing your expertise.

Fantastic. Just what I needed to clear up my confusion. Thanks Matt!

Thanks for an informative video!

Your tutorials are awesome! Always something new to learn and very well explained. A big thank you.

The gradient trick is awesome!

Excellent teaching, Matt! The techniques you taught are extremely helpful!

thank you! excellent information and attitude! ♥

Thanks for this lesson! This is great!

Love it! Thank you. "work smarter NOT harder".

This is a really good tutorial. I never thought about using the Subtract from mask feature like this! Thanks Matt! (Enjoying your “Inside the Composition” course a lot, almost done!)

Great tutorial - super helpful- thanks!

I've found that using the subtract brush with 'Auto Mask' checked ON works incredibly well! Just keep the center of the brush in the blue sky.

Matt, simply brilliant! Thanks a lot for sharing.

really interesting Matt, thank you made think differently about the mask tool

Amazing. This was brilliantMuch needed necessary skills well presented and easily understood. Thank you.

Gr8 as always

Another excellent video. Also great philosophy: it doesn't have to be perfect! I hate to think how many hours (days? months?) I've spent trying to mask something perfectly that, in the end, was not needed.

Thanks so much Matt. I was editing a similar image of an Osprey and had the same issue with the wing tips. Choosing "subtract" worked a treat. BTW what would you do with the other wing tip in your example as there is did not work so well there probably due to the green foliage there?

Well done Matt. It is so true that you have to think outside of the box. It really shows that can't have enough Start-2-Finish examples to drive a point home.

Quite thoughtful..
Thanks for a great video

GREAT INFO!! THANKS FOR SHARING!!!🙏🙏🙏

Awesome tutorial! Learnt some new ways in masking! ❤

I think the subject selection tools could go to an entirely new level if radius or feather was avail.