Done BWVision - Joel Tjintjelaar - Advanced Masking Video

BWVision - Joel Tjintjelaar - Advanced Masking Video

https://www.bwvision.com/advanced-masking-video/


Product Overview
A NEW APPROACH AND A NEW METHOD TO CREATE BETTER MASKS WITH LESS EFFORT
1.Sectional Multi-Channel Masking technique
A new advanced masking technique to add to your masking toolkit covering faster and more accurate ways of creating and adjusting hard masks
2.Sectional Masking workflow/framework
A new overall masking workflow to combine different masking methods. Perhaps the first structured workflow that covers all methods and increases your chances of making masks were they weren’t possible before.


HD QUALITY VIDEO-ONLY VERSION OF LIVE WEBINARS

The live Advanced Masking Webinars held in June 2020 were received so well, that I decided to create a video-only version of the Advanced masking class, available as of this moment as HD quality video tutorials recorded in a studio setting without an audience. And therefore even more extensive and detailed than the live classes.

Product Background
WHY THIS NEW METHOD AND WHO DESIGNED IT

From Joel Tjintjelaar, one of the main photographers who created and popularized a style that has now become ubiquitous under the banner of ‘B&W fine-art architecture’, the photographer who also developed a structured B&W workflow to enable that style and has been adopted by many followers worldwide, now comes an entirely new masking technique and, again structured, workflow that he’s sharing with the world to make hard masking for B&W and color processing even easier and more sophisticated.

Having spent the last 5 years developing software for B&W post-processing, Joel at the same time has developed a new, masking technique and workflow to support his views on B&W fine-art photography and the software to enable B&W fine-art post-processing. Where digital B&W post-processing has evolved over the past decade to a creative, all-is-possible process within a structured and repeatable framework such as Joel’s iSGM method, the creation of hard masks mainly consisted of isolated trial and error techniques, and not so much of a structured and integrated approach.

With Sectional Masking and Sectional multi-channel masking, Joel has created such a repeatable and integrated framework with new sophisticated hard masking techniques.


CONTROLLING IMAGES THROUGH MASKS IS ESSENTIAL

The creation of hard masks is essential to control a photograph completely. A photograph consists essentially of shapes and light. Light can be controlled with luminosity masks and shapes with hard masks. Isolate and control shapes and light, and you control everything.

THE PROBLEM OF HARD MASK CREATION

But creating refined hard masks is one of the biggest challenges in photo editing. Existing methods are often limited to specific shapes and contrasts, and there’s no structured approach to deal with all masking issues.

A NEW STRUCTURED APPROACH AND A NEW ADVANCED MASKING TECHNIQUE

This video explains an overall approach that combines different methods together and also demonstrates a new contrast-based method that goes beyond traditional methods to enable masks where they weren’t possible before and improve the quality of your masks.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN IN THIS VIDEO:

• how to create hard masks using a multitude of color independent channels, instead of, traditionally, just 1 color channel, to create masks where they seemed impossible before.
• how to create more accurate masks and work faster with less effort using the new method.
• how to split up the image in separate masking sections with different masking techniques like the pen tool for 1 hard mask.
• how to make a hard mask that combines hard edges/transitions with local soft edges/transitions in 1 mask (semi-hard, semi luminosity mask).
• sophisticated and non-degrading mask adjustment techniques like mask-in-mask and normal and overlay gradients
• how to make the right masking decisions, learn more effective mask management, mask optimization, and much more.

This class isn’t only about the HOW but also about the WHY of hard masks and the techniques used. No true skills can be developed without understanding WHY.

WHAT THIS CLASS IS NOT

• a class where you learn to use basic Photoshop selection tools, such as the pen tool or polygonal tool. There are plenty of online classes on the Internet but I will briefly highlight those basic and more traditional tools and I’ll be using them in combination with my methods during the class
• a class about how to use masking software

START MASKING IN THE FIELD WHEN SHOOTING!

Hair, feathers, trees, architecture, product photography; everything can be masked with this method. But, this is not a magic technique: masking should already start in the field when shooting by visualizing the masks you need to create and adjust your shooting style to the light conditions, instead of trying to mask something that’s impossible to mask.

Learn what to look for when shooting in the field with the figure-ground principle in mind, to later create masks easier on the computer. See the table below to get an idea of how this principle is applied in the class.