This will allow me to refine the Mask based off of the chrominance range and the luminance range - that’s the color and the brightness range of the area that I started my sample from. We can actually refine the Mask using tools that were first introduced in the most recent Nik collection update chrominance and luminance sliders.

This is pretty good but it’s not perfect. It allows me to select whatever part of the image I want to base the Mask off of. However, unlike a Control Point where that selection starts with the center point - which doesn’t really make sense for a Control Line - there’s a new tool and that’s the eyedropper here. However, this is a Control Line which means that the Mask on this side is going to be built based off of the chrominance and luminance of wherever I’ve selected. The Control Line starts like a linear gradient I simply click and drag across my scene to create a Mask that will affect this part of the scene at 100%, and this part at 0%, and then the line in between here is the gradient going from 100 to 0%. Let me reset this and select the new Control Line tool.

But now, there’s a better way, and that’s Control Lines. And just like that, we’ve created a pretty good Mask over the entire water. So, I’ll knock part of that out by adding a negative Control Point up here in the sky. However, you can see that it has also selected the sky. Three ought to do it there, giving me all the water along the beach. To select the rest of the water, I’ll just add additional Control Points. Let’s enable Masks so I can see exactly what’s being selected and from here, you can see that I’ve created a Mask to select this part of the water. If I wanted to change the color of the water, I can simply drop a Control Point anywhere on the water. The first thing I want to show you are the new Control Lines, but first, I’m going to show you Control Points again. As in the past, DxO asked me to join them on their virtual press tour showing off the top new features to English speaking media around the world and I’d like to share those demos with you. DxO PhotoLab 5 and DxO FilmPack 6 both introduced some exciting new features. DxO has just released updates to two of their apps, PhotoLab and FilmPack.

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