Lightroom recently rolled out a new and much more powerful masking panel, and if you haven’t taken the time to incorporate it into your workflow, you’re missing out on some very useful tools. One particular function, Intersect, is a bit strange and not necessarily intuitive, but once you get the hang of it, it allows for quick and powerful edits, and this great video tutorial will tell you. everything you need to know about it.
Coming to you from Anthony Morganti, this great video tutorial will show you how to use Lightroom’s Intersect function in the new masking panel. The name comes from the logical “and” operator, which means that a statement will be true if and only if each constituent statement is true. This means that you can create multiple masks that follow different rules (such as gradient masks and brightness masks), and Lightroom will only apply the adjustment within the overlap between the two masks. This allows you to efficiently create precise masks that would be quite cumbersome and opens up a number of creative possibilities that may be too difficult or time consuming. Watch the video above for a full rundown from Morganti.
