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Inspiring
March 31, 2011
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P: HSL Adjustments for Local Adjustment Tools

  • March 31, 2011
  • 140 replies
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The addition of HSL controls for the adjustment brush and the gradient tools would be a wonderful advancement and offer LR another great feature set that I'm sure would come in handy for the vast majority of Lightroom users.

140 replies

Participating Frequently
March 23, 2016
You're missing the point. Whether it is sliders, or the TAT (which, I agree, is AWESOME), I think users are looking for a way to selectively target certain areas of an image rather than the entire photo.
Participant
March 23, 2016
Using sliders in HSL? Really? I haven't used the sliders in years. The beauty of HSL is the Targeted Adjustment Tool, which allows you to click and drag in the image to make adjustments without having to guess what color you should be affecting.
Participating Frequently
March 23, 2016
I can't speak for others, but I'm just asking for the HSL adjustments to be applied to a brush rather than the whole image. I don't think they would have to be added to the Adjustment Brush area necessarily. Just make them accessible when using a brush. If they can add every other conceivable adjustment, then I don't see why HSL would be that large of a leap.
Inspiring
March 23, 2016
Just being able to brush saturation would be an amazing way to selectively remove background distractions, enhance subjects, etc.  Agreed that clutter needs to be avoided, but could put just those sliders in a pop-up box so that it has minimal impact to the primary dropdown options.
Sean H [Seattle branch]
Known Participant
March 23, 2016
There's probably an intelligent way to compress it in there. 
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ssprengel
Inspiring
March 23, 2016

Just to clarify, you're asking for the 24 sliders from the HSL area to be added to the 15 there currently are in the Adjustment Brush area?  I think performance and adding quite a bit more vertical height to the adjustment brush slider area may be the concerns.

Inspiring
March 23, 2016
I really hope they put this in the next version, it would save me so much time!!
Inspiring
December 31, 2015
HSL in adjustment brush makes so much sense. Sometimes I want to locally increase the green in the grass and not on the subject shirt. This would give huge flexibility in the editing process. Adobe you added dehaze in the adjustment brush why it's so hard to add HSL?
areohbee
Legend
October 30, 2014
Adobe is definitely aware that we want HSL (and other adjustments) localizable (e.g. Eric Chan of Adobe has commented about it in the past). Lr's design has limitations (e.g. performance), and they opted for white balance instead last time. Fingers cross for HSL next time.

For the mean time, consider using an app with layers, like Photoshop.
Inspiring
October 29, 2014
Here is my thread from three years ago.