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Master luminosity masks

Luminosity masking is a powerful editing≈technique used for selective tonal adjustments. It’s often favoured by landscape photographers because it offers a fine degree of control over the brightness of different tonal ranges. Essentially, luminosity masking allows us to create selections around different areas of brightness.

In the vibrant sunset coastal scene we have here, it means we can target the bright areas of sky around the sun, or the

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