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Mar 31, 2011 8:30 PM UTC
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P: HSL Adjustments for Local Adjustment Tools

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.

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andrzejv90126968
Known Participant
Mar 18, 2023 2:41 PM UTC

HSL w maskach bardzo by sie przydał mi tez twgo brakuje najlepiej jeszcze jak by było koło bawr tak jak jest Capture one

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Feb 6, 2023 3:17 PM UTC

The AI face masking is a fantastic feature. The ability to select faces, other skin, and individual features is such a time saver compared to manually selecting. Now more than ever it would be very beneficial to have the HSL/Color panel available for individual masks. Teeth yellow? AI mask, go into yellow and lighten/desaturate. Bloodshot eyes? AI mask sclera and go into red and lighten/desaturate. You can do a universal color saturation and lightness adustment but not specific colors. This doesn't give the same great result that being able to work with the specific colors can give. If possible, please add this feature. Thank you.

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Participant
Jan 17, 2023 2:07 PM UTC

why cant we get hsl adjustments on masks? if i only want to edit hsl in one part of the image i cant, this feature would be extremely useful

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Participating Frequently
Nov 24, 2022 10:19 PM UTC

Any way you can develop a way to use the HSL panel in a masked area?

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Participant
Dec 1, 2021 1:00 AM UTC

Hi,

I wanted to pass this on to the developers of Lightroom (and even Adobe RAW). This would be a feature people would hopefully find useful. I always assumed it would eventually be introduced, but it still hasn't been - so here we are 🙂


https://youtu.be/bh12Nr_7FhY

Thanks for reading/watching

Tom Hall

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ericn93573823
Participating Frequently
Nov 4, 2021 7:14 PM UTC

I'm editing a picture with fall colors in the background and two people in the foreground.  Enhancing the fall colors was done by using the color mixer.  However, this caused the teeth of the two people to turn yellow because there was a little yellow in their color.  Also their skin color became orange as the orange leaves behind them were enhanced.

What I'd like to do is apply the color mixer only to the background.  It's possible to use the new subject mask feature to select the background, but the sliders that can be used with the mask are too limited to adjust all the colors in the background.  Putting masks around each one to adjust hue, saturation, intensity would be a long and messy procedure.  Instead I used the mixer, and then tried to desaturate and decolorize the teeth with radial gradients and when that was not precise enough, the masking brush.  This took a LOT of time and the results were much worse than the teeth looked in the original.  

How do you solve this problem?

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JohanElzenga
Community Expert
Community Expert
Nov 5, 2021 4:54 PM UTC

Of course we would need to see your image and the extend of your edits to see if this is a realistic workaround, but what you could try is the following. Add a color range mask, and select one of the fall colors. Set the range slider to a fairly low value to keep the mask limited to one color. Now click Subtract and choose Select Subject. That should mask one color in the background only, which you can then enhance with saturation, or vibrance, or any other slider at your disposal in the mask panel. Repeat for some other fall colors until you are happy with the result.

 

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-- Johan W. Elzenga
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Jan 21, 2021 2:49 PM UTC

Say I want to make red tones more intense or light but just inside a selection, selection made with radial filter for example. Can I do that in lightroom? If I have to go over to PS for this task, what would be the quickest way? If it's NOT possible inside LR I very much like to see this feature added!

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dj_paige
Legend
Jan 21, 2021 2:58 PM UTC

There is a Saturation local slider, there is an Exposure local slider, and there is a Hue local slider (in the last few versions of LrC). So, select the area of interest, then adjust the saturation, exposure and hue as needed.

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Rob_Cullen
Community Expert
Community Expert
Sep 4, 2020 2:34 AM UTC
>"It would be fantastic to just have that same old panel available there, too!"
With respect, I do not agree. The Hue sliders in global HSL panel are very restrictive (they only change hue to adjacent colors.  Orange<Yellow>Green). The Brush & Gradient Hue adjustment is 'full spectrum'- much more useful.

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Regards. My System: Windows-11, Lightroom-Classic 15.6, Photoshop 27.8, ACR 18.7, Lightroom 9.4, Lr-iOS 10.4.0, Bridge 16.0.3 .
Todd Shaner
Legend
Sep 3, 2020 10:55 PM UTC
Agreed! It's EZ PZ and waaaay more selective and accurate. Good video tutorial here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DBGOGbKTBM
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Bob Somrak
Legend
Sep 3, 2020 9:13 PM UTC
You can change Hue, Saturation and Lumininance (Exposure) with the local sliders now so I don't see what the issue is.  Local HSL is essentially implemented.  Maybe not how you would like to do it but it works well.
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