From the course: Lightroom Mobile: Masking and Image Editing Tips

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Selective adjustments

Selective adjustments

In this chapter, I'd like to make some adjustments to the background to really make the subject pop out, and we can do that using a method that I taught in a previous video where we're going to select the subject and then invert that mask to select the background. At this point, I will say just as a caveat, there will be a time in the future, I think I don't know. I'm not privy to the Adobe gods, but I do think that there will be a time when select background will be an option for you within Lightroom Mobile. Right now it's just not. So hopefully with a few different updates, we should be able to see a select background option. But who knows? I'm going to tap into my masking section. Now, if you remember from a previous video on selecting using color range, we do have a mask already in this image. This was created to turn the cornfields more warm and less green. So if I hide this mask, you can go ahead and see what the original green cornstalks looked like. Now this is an option…

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