Taming Bright Water with Luminosity Masks

Bright waterfalls can easily overpower a landscape photo and hide important detail. In this step-by-step editing guide, you’ll learn how to use tone and color adjustments, Luminosity Masks, and Dynamic Contrast to recover detail in bright water, enhance the surrounding landscape, and create a more balanced and natural-looking waterfall image.

What You’ll Learn

• How to use Luminosity Masks to recover detail in bright waterfall highlights
• Techniques for balancing tone and color while preserving a natural look
• How to copy and invert masks to protect specific areas of an image
• Ways to enhance landscape texture and detail without affecting the water flow

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