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July 18th
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: $89
Reviews
“Your teaching is absolutely thrilling Rick and I am so grateful for new ideas and recommendations from you!“
Michael Gerson
Over the years I’ve taken numerous photography and post-processing workshops, webinars and courses. It wasn’t until I began working with Rick Burress that I experienced a deep and critical understanding of the intricacies of Photoshop, Lightroom and Camera Raw. In a crowded field, Rick stands out. through courses, webinars, and private sessions, Rick explains the most complex material in ways that helped me relate to the material personally, and use it effectively. Rick’s engaging teaching style—warm, encouraging, humorous, and patient, made me want to continually learn and apply my learning even more. Take a course, seminar, webinar with Rick—you’ll find that it not only a great learning experience—it will be a lasting pleasure and a lot of fun!
Anne Forbes
Why do we keep enrolling? I have noted from the videos that we are all past the first flush of youth, and I presume can all recognise a superlative teacher when we encounter one. We have all battled since our midlife with this thing called post processing. Your breezy style and clear explanation with attractive visuals keeps us glued to our computer seats. We know that much hidden prep goes into these webinars from which we gain so much. I thank you and consider my $US well spent. Do keep making the webinars so long as your time and sanity allow. I wish I could log on and join the group, but 2am finds me asleep—I watch the recordings, of course!
Warm wishes from Brisbane,
Anne
Suzanne Newlin
Thank you for this class!
It has been eye-openingly, jaw-droppingly COOL!
And my friends who have a commercial graphics degree like me, but have been actually using it as a job for the last 25 years don’t know any of it!
One of them has worked for [Company Name Redacted] here in town as a retoucher for 20 years, goes to photoshop world every year, and has never used a channel!
How has this thousand-times-easier way to cut stuff out of the background not been taught?
So again thank you so much for teaching me new skills I can use and pass on!