Masters Academy

LrC & ACR’s New Masking

This lesson gives you an in-depth look at the new masking capabilities that were added to Lightroom and Adobe Camera Raw in October of 2021. We explore each of the masking tools available, how their overlays work, how to combine them to create much more complex masks and use them all to optimize a single image.

Note: The downloadable practice image for this lesson contains snapshots that will allow you to switch to the finished version of this image if you so desire. Also, the image has been compressed into a .zip archive. You will need to double-click on the file after downloading to extract the original image before attempting to use the image in Lightroom or ACR.