Masters Academy

Masked Curves in Lightroom

In this lesson I show how to cheat and apply Curves through a mask in Lightroom Classic. It’s cheating because that feature does not exist in Lightroom and can only be found in Adobe Camera Raw! We’ll do it via presets. I also talk a bit about how to create and modify presets and how to apply them through a mask.

Note: There are two .zip files available for download below. The one containing presets does not need to be expanded before use. You will need to double-click on the practice images file after downloading to expand its contents before attempting to use the images in Lightroom or Photoshop.