12-10-2019, 01:32 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-10-2019, 01:32 PM by Espermaschine.)
(12-10-2019, 01:23 PM)Ofnuts Wrote: The problem is that everyone got intoxicated by the way patdavid builds the masks. His way is very pedagogic, but in real life you don't need to construct the masks by add/substracing/intersecting them. You can get your mask directly by applying the adequate curve to the B&W image (aka the "L" mask).
This is what i've been thinking as well.
Making a bunch of luminosity masks seems to unintuitive.
How do you even know which one you want for the effect you had in mind ?
Lets say i want to make a duotone.
I would just duplicate the image, colourize, add the greyscale layermask and then adjust with Curves/Levels until the effect i want appears on the screen.
Who cares if its L, LL, DD, or whatever ?
I know people love their scripts, but this seems not very practical to me.