I was just using the auto mask feature in Adobe Lightroom on one of my recent New York shots. I was using it to select the sky behind the statue of liberty, and this photo looked like the perfect photo to use the auto mask feature with the local adjustment brush.
I put on a red over lay so you can see exactly where my brush painted. As you can see it did a fantastic job of just selecting the sky and not the statue. Saving me hours of time selecting it myself. All I had to do was turn on auto mask and paint away and it avoided cutting into the statue. Then all I had to do was tweak with the setting making the sky darker. I was trying to get more detail out of the sky you can kind of see that I did in the bottom right corner. But most of the sky didn’t have any detail at all so I just lowered the brightness of the sky to make the statue stand out a little more.
Before and after auto mask and darkening of sky
