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How to create a luma mask in Figma
SECTION: 1
Getting Started
5:42
SECTION: 2
Auto Layout - Level 1
55:49
SECTION: 3
Advanced Workflow Tricks
35:51
SECTION: 4
Grids
20:20
SECTION: 5
Simple App Brand
19:52
SECTION: 6
Nested & Responsive Auto layouts
48:11
SECTION: 7
Animation - Level 1
1:11:43
SECTION: 8
Prototyping - Level 1
1:26:31
SECTION: 9
Advanced Layers
29:26
SECTION: 10
Components & Variants - Level 1
1:07:49
SECTION: 11
Typography
57:38
SECTION: 12
Imagery
1:03:59
SECTION: 13
Video
33:47
SECTION: 14
Color
17:38
SECTION: 15
Styles & Libraries
34:20
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Drawing, Stroke & Fill
36:19
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Auto Layout - Level 2
34:07
SECTION: 18
Components & Variants - Level 2
18:22
SECTION: 19
Prototyping - Level 2
1:01:57
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Variables
33:57
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Design Tokens
29:28
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Animation - Level 2
16:52
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Accessibility
11:01
SECTION: 24
Working with Stakeholders
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What Next
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Together, we'll start by delving into the depths of multilevel nested autolayouts, and unravel the secrets used by UX professionals by learning:
- Workflow techniques, managing design assets, styles, components, grid and column layouts like true virtuosos.
- Learn how to use Variables and put them to work creating even more complete prototypes.
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Hi everyone, in this video we're going to look at how to create... something called a Luminance Mask or a Luma Mask... basically, it uses the light and dark parts of an image to mask things out... you can do some cool Duo tone effects, all right, let me show you how to do it. First thing is, bring in an image, I'm bringing in 'Luma 1'... there's nothing special about this, it's just a JPEG I found on Unsplash...
it does look cool when there's a really high contrast between... you know, the foreground and the background... that's the only reason I picked this one, plus it looked very Palm tree-ish. The next thing I need to do is we need to make sure... that the mask is on the bottom of the thing that we want to mask... so make sure it's behind, select both of them, hit your 'Masking' button...
and nothing happens, until over here, in the Property Inspector... can you see, it's defaulted to Alpha... there is no Alpha in this one, but look at this, Luminance. What it's doing is using the dark parts of my image to put a hole in this... so what I'm going to do, click off, click on, so I've got the whole thing... can you see, look, it's actually a hole in this...
so the Luminous is using dark parts to poke a hole in it... and that's when you get this kind of nice Duo tone kind of look going on. If yours is looking a bit weird, and maybe... I pick one that has high contrast because it looks good in this tutorial... if you have to use an image and you want to try and do something different to it. What you might have to do is go into the image, there's my Luma 1...
actually no, it's this one here... and I can go into the image... and you can mess around with things like the exposure, can you see... and maybe you want a bit more detail in there... just have a play around with contrast and saturation, just all of them, to see... what moves the needle in terms of getting it how you want.
It's mainly the lights and darks... so highlights and shadows, those sorts of things... will kind of change the way this Luma Mask works... sometimes though you want the opposite... at the moment there's a hole where the tree is... say you want the hole in the background, you want the tree to be purple...
let me bring in the other file. I bought in Luma 2 and made a couple of colored boxes... to kind of show you the difference... and actually, wait there, all right, the magic of editing... what I want to do is invert this first... so there's no feature at the moment...
they keep adding features like this, there's no invert colors... but there is a plug-in that I found called Invert Color... I'm going to hit 'Run', 'Invert', I need to select at least one, you... then I'm going to run it... actually, I think the way that this one works is that... to start with, it will say, something like Configure Settings...
hit 'Save', then run it again... and it will invert the colors, so basically, just switch them around... it's mainly to do with the lights and the darks... you see now, the cat was black, but now he is white... so I'm going to do the same thing, put it behind... make it a 'Mask', make sure it's set to 'Luminance'...
and let's do the difference between these two... there you go, same, same, except one's inverted and one's not... depending on what you want to do, it's pretty cool... all right, that is how to do a Luma Mask in Figma.
it does look cool when there's a really high contrast between... you know, the foreground and the background... that's the only reason I picked this one, plus it looked very Palm tree-ish. The next thing I need to do is we need to make sure... that the mask is on the bottom of the thing that we want to mask... so make sure it's behind, select both of them, hit your 'Masking' button...
and nothing happens, until over here, in the Property Inspector... can you see, it's defaulted to Alpha... there is no Alpha in this one, but look at this, Luminance. What it's doing is using the dark parts of my image to put a hole in this... so what I'm going to do, click off, click on, so I've got the whole thing... can you see, look, it's actually a hole in this...
so the Luminous is using dark parts to poke a hole in it... and that's when you get this kind of nice Duo tone kind of look going on. If yours is looking a bit weird, and maybe... I pick one that has high contrast because it looks good in this tutorial... if you have to use an image and you want to try and do something different to it. What you might have to do is go into the image, there's my Luma 1...
actually no, it's this one here... and I can go into the image... and you can mess around with things like the exposure, can you see... and maybe you want a bit more detail in there... just have a play around with contrast and saturation, just all of them, to see... what moves the needle in terms of getting it how you want.
It's mainly the lights and darks... so highlights and shadows, those sorts of things... will kind of change the way this Luma Mask works... sometimes though you want the opposite... at the moment there's a hole where the tree is... say you want the hole in the background, you want the tree to be purple...
let me bring in the other file. I bought in Luma 2 and made a couple of colored boxes... to kind of show you the difference... and actually, wait there, all right, the magic of editing... what I want to do is invert this first... so there's no feature at the moment...
they keep adding features like this, there's no invert colors... but there is a plug-in that I found called Invert Color... I'm going to hit 'Run', 'Invert', I need to select at least one, you... then I'm going to run it... actually, I think the way that this one works is that... to start with, it will say, something like Configure Settings...
hit 'Save', then run it again... and it will invert the colors, so basically, just switch them around... it's mainly to do with the lights and the darks... you see now, the cat was black, but now he is white... so I'm going to do the same thing, put it behind... make it a 'Mask', make sure it's set to 'Luminance'...
and let's do the difference between these two... there you go, same, same, except one's inverted and one's not... depending on what you want to do, it's pretty cool... all right, that is how to do a Luma Mask in Figma.
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