P: Add Luminance Range Masking

[stevenj64887819]

Selective masking using luminance in Lightroom cc as in Lightroom classic would help speed up editing. Is this on the plan to be added in the near future?

[Victoria Bampton LR Queen]

Adobe don't share their plans in advance, but I would have thought so. Gets my vote anyway.

[JohanElzenga]

Lighroom CC, Lightroom Classic and Camera Raw are all based on the same raw engine, so it's safe to assume that anything in the develop module of Lightroom Classic or in ACR will sooner or later make its way into Lightroom CC as well. In fact, Lightroom CC already reads and applies the Range Mask on images that are synched from Lightroom Classic with this feature. The only thing nobody can and will tell you is how long it will take. There is  still a lot of work to do in Lightroom CC, so don't expect everything to appear overnight.

[hifimacianer]

It's time to implement this feature to LR CC too. It's available for CC classic for some time now, and it would be a great help in CC, to adjust images more accurate.

[JohanElzenga]

Lightroom CC is a work in progress. I'm sure that range mask will be added one day.

[hifimacianer]

I know that it's a work in progress.
But if more people "+" this feature request, we might get it sooner...
And since almost all other Photoeditors (competitors) have this feature, and it's a really nice feature, it should make it to CC sooner than later.

[JohanElzenga]

Like I said: I'm sure it's already on the roadmap and so I doubt that posts like these will change anything.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

I think this would be a great feature to add to the mobile/iPad app for Lightroom. Is this something that may be considered?

[bjornhel]

I would like to request that you add range masks in Lightroom (Cloudbased). For me this would ease the workflow significantly, as I would not have to go through photoshop in my editing process.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

I am really missing the range mask feature in the mobile device

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

I would love to use Lightroom mobile on Dex, but I'm missing useful feature which is not existing on mobile version. It would be great, if Adobe would add possibilty to use gradients with the range mask option as it is on Lightroom classic.

[luca.marchini6]

Hi there,
is it planned to implement the Range Masks for the mobile version?

Thank you in advance,
Luca

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

Hi,

Are you planning to add range luminosity masks feature to Lightroom mobile, specifically iPad version? This is the only thing that I miss on the iPad. It would be awesome if it was available there.

Thanks

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

By being able to us colour picking in selective edits we can edit specifically a part of the pic without hindering any other area which has no pattern. For example, if you take a skyscraper pic and you want to edit only the blue part of the sky, first we should be able to use selective editing and select the sky and the use the color picking and select the blue and edit only that. By adding this feature it can cater alot of people who wants to edit only a part of the pic easily which requires way too much attention to editing without editing the part of the pics which they don't want to edit.

[Victoria Bampton LR Queen]

Good request. This would be the Range Mask tool, which is available in Lightroom Classic but not yet available in the Cloud Ecosystem apps.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

Hope this feature be replicated in Mobile version

[stefantotev]

Adding my vote to the feature request. Range masks are very helpful. 

[William Scalia]

Please add Range Masks to Lightroom CC. 

[Justin31189858]

Quite an essential feature together with Auto mask. Should be added to planned

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

When will Range Mask be available for the Lightroom version for the IPAD PRO?

[Rikk Flohr: Photography]

This thread is being merged into an existing authoritative thread for better tracking and response. 

[erikc19767166]

I was introduced to Lightroom as a mobile user who wanted the flexibility of working from the cloud, and it has been a fantastic experience. I've become comfortable using all of the features that Lightroom offers, but have recently become aware of the Luminance Masking features in Classic that have made me wonder if I should shift to the Classic version. The problem is that I'd be sacrificing the cloud flexibility that I've come to depend on. 

Is it possible to use the Lightroom Classic platform within the Lightroom CC system? Or is there an easy way to use both applications -- Classic for more powerful editing, but organizing the libraries with the file structuring of the CC? I have both applications on my desktop and it seems that I ought to be able to use both, but I expect it would lead to all kinds of confusion. 

I'm sure this issue has been raised many times before, but really feel that there should be a way to take advantage of the editing power of Classic without having to move my library and adjust my workflows.

[Victoria Bampton LR Queen]

It's possible, yes, but you are correct in thinking that it can create a fair bit of confusion if you want originals in the cloud. You have to decide which will be your primary tool - probably the cloud one in your case. Classic will sync down all of the originals you've uploaded in the cloud versions, so you need enough storage to keep those originals separately to any local cloud cache, and be careful what you do in Classic as not everything syncs up.

Adobe have heard the request for extending the masking tools in the cloud version, so I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't added in due course, but I don't have a timescale to share.

[erikc19767166]

Thank you for that thoughtful reply. It confirms what I thought, and have begrudgingly decided to forego the luminance masking capabilities in the interest of keeping my life simpler. I'm curious which application most professional photographers use, since it would seem unwise to choose not to have access to the deeper editing tools, but with people being increasingly mobile and reliant on universal cloud access, it would seem like quite a compromise to limit your editing to such time that you're able to sit at your desktop -- especially given how much travel factors into the profession. But I don't have experience with Classic, and don't have a feel for the differing model of file management, so it's possible I'm misunderstanding the inconvenience entailed.. 

[Rikk Flohr: Photography]

This thread is being merged into an existing authoritative thread for better tracking and response. Please review the official answer (if any) in the second post on the thread for more information. 

[Victoria Bampton LR Queen]

@Erik Chittick Different pros have different priorities. Many have vast numbers of photos, so are better suited to Classic's local storage. Personally, the convenience of cloud storage suits me best. If you haven't used Classic, it does come with a significant learning curve, so I'd probably pin my hopes on Adobe improving masking in the cloud version.