Footloose. I don't use PS but yes that sounds like it should do it. It's worth understanding all of the selection options. For instance it's possible to form a union of 2 and subtract another. Some basic GIMP tutorials always go through this area. PS tutorials seem to focus more on bells and whistles rather than making use of the basics that the bells and whistles use. Personally I have great difficulty just using things without knowing how they work.
One other aspect I would also bear in mind is the thresholds method as I call it which from the video can also be done with levels in PS. This gives manual control of where the black and white clipping points are - that is what a mask is, some black and some white with nothing in between *. It's also worth remembering the other GIMP technique I linked to. In that one the various luminosity ranges finish up in layers. Each layer is a copy of the original with a mask applied to limit it's luminosity range. The rest is effectively transparent. Those masks can be obtained with thresholds or channel based masks formed using the selection options etc.
Actually from memory Lightroom has a simple thresholds based luminosity mask - a slider that limits adjustments to selectable brighter parts of an image. Just something noticed in a video and I may be mixed up. What it seemed to lack is a slider to adjust the brighter end so that specific tones could be adjusted.
* Apart from blend widths of course but often gaussian blurs may be a better option when selections are being added and subtracted etc.
John
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