Masks can also be created from colour or brightness. With the button (1), can you activate the “Create Mask” modus. You will find yourself in the standard mode “Create Mask out of Colour”(2). If you want to create the mask out of a brightness, chose button (3). The tolerance controller decides how sharp (smaller value) or soft (higher value) the created mask will be.
While in the “Create Mask” mode, your cursor will turn into a pipette. The colour or brightness your cursor points to, will determine the type of mask being created. In the above example, we can see how a red mask has been created for the sky.
Tip:
If you want to combine several colours in one mask, simply click on the desired colours after each other with the pipette on the screen. The current colour will be added to the current mask with every click.
– Selective Drawing – Smoothing Brush
The smoothing brush (1) gives you the opportunity to draw selective areas of the mask softly. To draw an area even softer, just go over the same area with the smoothing brush several times.
– Global Mask Functions
In the area of global mask functions, several special modes can be found that one can use directly.
In global functions there are two buttons: the left button fulfills the function with a lower effect while the one on the right will do the same but with a bigger effect.
To reset the function of a mask: Every mask can be reset to its original state without any influence on the other masks. You simply click on the waste paper button (1).
– Adaptation of automatic masks onto the “Distortion correction” of the RAW module
Selective drawing works directly with the RAW module. This includes the “Distortion correction” which is part of the RAW module and is applied completely automatically on several drawn masks.
In the example, you can see an image where the sky has already been masked.
When we now subsequently correct in the RAW module the horizon within the image, then the drawn mask will automatically adjust itself to the “Distortion correction”.
After clicking on the button a security query will follow, so that no important work can be lost by accident.
