How to Quickly Mask Skies to Enhance Them

Enhancing a sky or foreground is one of the most common editing techniques in photography but it can take a lot of time to mask adjustments into specific areas of a photo. Wouldn’t it be nice if those skies and foregrounds could be masked automatically for you? In ON1 Photo RAW 2022, you can now use the all-new Mask Sky command to instantly create a mask around your sky or foreground. This is a perfect solution for selectively applying detail, local adjustments, or enhancing with stylish filters. In this quick lesson, let’s selectively adjust the foreground and sky using the Mask Sky command feature. We’ll apply detail to the foreground and then we’ll add color and contrast into the sky using a creative filter.