How to IMPROVE a SKY MASK Around TREES in Lightroom

Great insight into mask refinement. Really appreciate the information. Please keep sharing via your wonderful videos 👍

Very helpful thanks. Sometimes intersecting a sky with a sky works but often not too well on branches which is why you approach is helpful.

Thank you for the explanation on this.. Now it would be great if Adobe photoshop included some form of similar process when doing a Sky Replacement which doesn't always work!

Will that work in Photoshop?

Cool. Thanks.

Wow, the amount of research and time that went into that would have been enormous. That's a forensic like discovery.
Fantastic and thank you so much.

could you make a preset out of this??? thanks, G

Thank you, Maestro! This is so, so, so useful!

This video will REALLY help me. Many of my photos that are taken in the mountains here on Oahu often have some type of foliage mingled with the sky. I've never been able to figure out how to correct the issues that you pointed out. Thanks for putting the video together.

I routinely select sky and then intersect that with another select sky. Will have to try this and see how much better your system is.

Great video on a very important topic. Are there any other, non Lightroom, techniques that you use/know are even better? This is very common issue for me. Many thanks for sharing.

Even after years of experience in Photoshop, I still enjoy watching how others solve such problems. I love our masking capabilities today, for I remember starting off with PS7 and spending unreal amounts of time manually selecting masks, sometimes in several sessions, to work with or remove a background (usually behind vehicle images that I would place upon a grey to white gradient background, for example). My early landscapes with trees in similar circumstances? Awful, even when using the color selection. These days, the selection process is so much better than before and I shall be playing with this technique, as well. By the way, I'll add that I often hit the caps lock key (on PC) when using the eyedropper, for then one gets a more refined point to use for selection in tight areas (I used to use it when selecting chromatic aberration that I always fought with my old lenses eons ago).

These will be quite helpful techniques and approaches for many. Well done and well explained. :)

Now that landscape has been added its a pity that when selecting the sky you aren’t able to subtract water from the mask. This would end the problem of ps over-selecting when you do a sky mask.

You can't even imagine how much this video will help me. Than you so much ! :)

Using color range to add you can click and drag an area to include in the selection.

Little by little I am understanding the use of intersect. This video and the steps you used are perfectly organized for my rather linear brain. The logical lefty in me. Thanks!

Awesome work! Thank you for your excellent tutorials & research in finding the best ways to work with Masks in particular.

thank you!

Top stuff! Thanks Anthony

When you were brushing in the "Intersect with a Brush," you were brushing over the trees. How come the branches weren't included in the mask even when you were brushing them?

Top ! Many thanks !

as always, very good and clear. thanks so much! Between these videos and your courses you have helped me out so much.

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Thank you for this informative tutorial

A major opportunity for Adobe to use AI to improve this selection process.
The goal is to get similar results in the shortest possible time.

It is a most impressive workflow. I couldn't get it to work at first. Then I removed the ADAPTIVE COLOR PROFILE and used a linear profile instead. This allowed me to get the predicted result you developed. Thank you.