P: HSL Adjustments for Local Adjustment Tools

Before all the major Adobe apps consolidated into one subscription, Adobe Singapore called my boss to offer a significant discount on Adobe Premiere license. My boss was thrilled but questioned Adobe about the large discount. Adobe explained that it was due to increased competition. At that time, my boss had switched 60 of our computers to Mac, and Mac was in the process of upgrading its Final Cut software.

Going back to this discussion, if ACR and Lightroom continue to improve at a rapid pace, it could significantly hurt their competitors. There are many alternatives to ACR and Lightroom, with some being 5 to 10 times more expensive. I believe Adobe has graciously allowed competitors 14 years to capture their share of the market, but that's a long wait for loyal Adobe subscribers. 

The color mixer in masks is a powerful feature; it works in conjunction with point color, similar to how they function in the global adjustment. While point color can refine a selected color very well, the color mixer provides a wide range of options for color grading and harmonizing. Most free and paid color grading presets are created using ACR or Lightroom with the color mixer as one of the key component.

I was just having a conversation with someone on IG about this and saying not to hold your breath. When Adobe released the mixing tool, we started pushing to get it applied to masks. It seems their solution was the point color tool. It can be done this way, just slower and more work, but it does have advantages that the mixing tools doesn't, like refining the color selected. 

Yeah, the two requests are now merged, which makes sense. Don't forget however that this thread started in 2011(!), when there was no Hue tool and no Point Color in local adjustments. At that time it made much more sense to ask for it than now, but here we are 14 years later, and there is still no color mixer in masking. So I can only conclude that 143 upvotes in 14 years don't impress Adobe very much.

a similar request has gathered a fair few!

My idea is simple. Add HSL panel to masks as well. So that for example one can bring back the true skin tone whilst still leave the background untyched by the HSL changes to the mask.

With today's release of Point Color, this has taken another step forward: 

Point Color for Global and Local adjustments allows for a three-dimensional (HSL) selection of and adjustment in three dimensions (HSL) of any color on your image with the option to refine ranges and outputs.

DXO Photolab 7 now offers local HSL. Like Capture One.

Please Adobe, this is now a long long overdue feature many times requested by LRc users....

I love the new maksing features in Lightroom Classic. Since you added the tone curve I think it would also be beneficial to add the Hue, Saturation and Luminance, HSL, panel inside the masking feature. Thank you!!!

It's really time to add all the color adjustments to the masking function.

I don't know how many times clients have to ask for this, and yet only a tiny bit more is ever added to the masks.

It's just such an essential part to be able to adjust colors, saturations and luminances (HSL) in the masks.

I can't believe this hasn't been added yet again.

Please enable the HSL tools in mask mode. 

This would make adjusting skin tones so much easier. 

(Add a mask based on person X's skin tone, exludin lips, and then adjust the reds and yellows separately.)