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Making range-based masks

Making range-based masks

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Making range-based masks

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- When working with masks, you also have a category called range-based masks. This lets you make a selection based on a range of information such as color or tone. Let's click to make a new mask here, and you'll see Color Range and Luminance Range. We'll talk about the Depth Range a little bit later. Using Color Range, I'm going to click and come over here to the wood and sample the color. Now I see that it targets that color nicely, and using the Refine controls, I could be more or less aggressive. I like that there. That worked out quite well in fact. Now I just want to pull a few things out. Using the Subtract command, I can remove things, like subtract the subject, which should pull out those signs. Perfect. Let's go ahead now and also subtract and do a little bit of the sky. Good, that pulled it out nicely and you see the clean edge. Now let's click the Subtract button one more time, and I'm just going to…

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