Marvellous masks made perfect
Explore a powerful new way to select and edit parts of your shot in Lightroom
Sean McCormack
Sean McCormack is a photographer and writer, based in Galway. He’s the author of The Indispensable Guide to Lightroom CC.
L ayers in Photoshop offer a brilliant way to build up edits on different parts of your photo. But because of the way it works, Lightroom doesn’t have the benefit of layers. You can do local corrections that act like layers, but what you’ve been able do has been quite basic – until now, that is.