Amazing Lightroom Editing Trick! Range Mask Hack

In this Lightroom tutorial I'm going to walk through an editing trick using the range mask that blew my mind! Use Lightroom's range mask to achieve this amazingly simple trick and radically improve your edits while turbo boosting editing speed.

When you've been using Lightroom for years, its not super often you come across new editing tricks. Its even more rare you come across an editing hack that has the potential to radically change your editing workflow. That's why I'm so excited to share this editing technique with you guys as its a total game changer.

You might have heard of dodging and burning before when it comes to photo editing in photoshop and lightroom. Normally this is done manually by taking an adjustment brush and increasing or decreasing the exposure and brightness selectively in areas of your image to shape the light in your photo. Doing this adds contrast and pop to your images without making them look over edited.

The problem with traditional dodging and burning in Lightroom is that it A) Takes FOREVER and B) Sometimes looks unnatural / overdone.

Enter this range mask trick. Simply apply a range mask in Lightroom to have Lightroom automatically mask out areas of brightness and darkness, and then instantly dodge and burn your image perfectly in just a couple clicks.

The beauty of this editing trick / technique is how simple it is. It makes your workflow far more efficient, and can be used in all sorts of creative ways. For instance, in addition to classic dodging and burning, you can use this technique to selectively add color, saturation or sharpening to areas of your image. Touching up portraits is a breeze - Just range mask the bright portions of your image (skin) and pull back the clarity + texture to instantly smooth skin. Then grab another range mask and selectively add some dehaze, texture and saturation to the shadows to add detail and pop to eyebrows, hair, eyelashes and eyes