Digital Camera World

Use Local Masking to apply textures to your shots

Add a sense of grittiness and depth using your own textures

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1 Apply a Template

Select an image you would like to apply a texture to, then apply a Template to achieve an instant look. We used the Cozy Den Template from the Influencer Collection. Apply any further adjustment­s as required in the Edit tab, and process the underlying image until it looks just right. For this image, only the Light and Matte Tools were applied.

2 Add a Local Mask

Click on the brush icon to the right; when the Edit Tools vanish, click Add and select Texture from the two options to open the Local Masking/Texture controls. Click the Load Texture button, locate a texture image you have saved on your computer (or download 31 textures free via digitalcam­eraworld.com/dc244), and increase Opacity to 100.

3 Set the blend, and position

Click on the Blend dropdown menu that’s set to Normal, and select a Blending Mode to add transparen­cy. Multiply, Screen, Lighten and Soft Light are great starting points. We used Lighten. Click the Place Texture button and you can reposition, rotate and resize the texture to make it fit better with the underlying image.

5 Control the mask

Click the Erase button showing an eraser symbol and set Brush Softness to 100 and Opacity to 100, or a lower setting if required. Use the Radius slider to change the brush size; when you click on the image to erase, a red mask will appear as a guide. You can now remove the texture in different parts of the image, or paint it back by clicking on the Paint button.

4 Refine the blend

We can refine the blend of the texture. The first control is Opacity, which has been reduced to 75 here. In the Advanced Settings, Brightness was increased to 30 and Contrast to 15. There are also sliders to control Hue and Saturation, but these weren’t required here. Texture controls are only applied to the texture layer, so the underlying layer is untouched.

Luminar AI is constantly being updated, so the user interface may change with future updates.

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