Advanced, Modern Masking Techniques

Adobe Camera Raw, Photoshop & Lightroom Classic

The difference between a good image and a great image is often not the adjustment itself—it’s where that adjustment is applied, what precision edits are applied—That’s the power of masking.

Join photographer, educator, and Adobe efficiency expert Rick Burress for this intensive 3-hour webinar and learn how today’s most powerful masking tools can transform your editing workflow. You’ll discover how to make precise, targeted adjustments that enhance your images naturally while dramatically reducing editing time.

Whether you’re working on landscapes, portraits, wildlife, architecture, or commercial photography, you’ll learn professional techniques for isolating subjects, controlling light, enhancing color, recovering detail, and directing viewer attention with precision.

You’ll see how to take full advantage of Adobe Camera Raw and Lightroom Classic’s AI-powered masking tools, while also learning when Photoshop’s advanced selections, layer masks, channels, and luminosity masks provide the extra control demanding images require.

In This Webinar
You’ll Learn:

• How professionals use masks to create powerful yet natural-looking edits

• Advanced AI masking techniques for subjects, skies, people, backgrounds, and objects

• How to combine, refine, and intersect masks for maximum precision

• Professional Photoshop masking workflows for difficult selections, hair, foliage, and complex edges

• Luminosity masking and slider techniques for superior tonal control and dynamic range management

• Methods for directing viewer attention through selective light, color, contrast, and detail

• How to avoid common masking mistakes such as halos, edge contamination, and unnatural transitions

• Time-saving workflows that produce better results in less time

Perfect For:

• Photographers seeking more control over their edits

• Lightroom Classic and Adobe Camera Raw users ready to move beyond basic adjustments

• Photoshop users wanting faster and more accurate selections

• Anyone looking to create cleaner, more professional images without spending hours in post-production

Stop applying adjustments everywhere. Learn how to apply them exactly where they matter.

By the end of this session, you’ll have a complete masking workflow that allows you to edit faster, work more precisely, and produce images that stand out for all the right reasons.

LIVE: July 18th,
1:00pm–4:00pm EST
(10:00am–1:00pm Arizona & California Time zones.)

Zoom link will be provided days before the Webinar to all registrants.

Join in person if you can,
but ALL will receive the recording and the entire set of resources from the Webinar.

The best edits are the ones nobody notices.

Precision where it counts. Power where it matters. Results that stand apart.

Register now!