Subtract masking
A masking technique in adobe-lightroom used to exclude specific areas from an existing mask, enabling highly targeted Local adjustments.
Core Functionality
- Used to refine selections by removing unwanted pixels from a previously defined mask.
- Works as part of a suite of masking-tools (including add-masking and intersect-masking) to achieve precision.
- Often used in conjunction with intersect-masking (introduced late 2023) to isolate specific overlapping regions for complex edits.
References
- 2026 04 21 Lightroom Intersect Masking for Precise Local Adjustments
Source Notes
- 2026-04-21: [[concepts/lightroom|Lightroom Intersect Masking for Precise Local Adjustments]]