One of the most powerful professional selection tools for retouching is Luminosity Masking, which is based on the luminosity values of an image.

While in many retouching situations you may not need the advanced Luminosity Masking, it is important that you know what is possible and how to achieve those complex selections.

The simpler Luminosity Masking selections, especially those that are available on our Beauty Retouch panel, are very useful for quick correction and adjustment of complex targeted areas such as the brightest highlights, midtones (with the exclusion of highlights and shadows), and the darkest shadows.

These are also incredibly helpful for advanced color grading.

Check out how the Beauty Retouch panel makes selection, adjustment and inversion of Luminosity Selections quick and easy in a couple clicks of a button: video tutorials.

The following video is an excerpt from the Professional Beauty Retouching video course: