P: HSL Adjustments for Local Adjustment Tools

I came to this forum after being told in a user-to-user forum that Adode staff reads all the comments here. Since the first request for a brushable HSL dates to 9 years (YEARS!) ago, and the last mention of any attention paid by Adobe is 5 years old, I'm wondering why this is proving so difficult? Could someone at Adobe please explain the delay? If such a function is impossible, then please say so and we'll all shut up.

For obvious reasons. Please and thank you, all!

Yeah.  It's only a 9 year old request so keep hoping.  🙂

This would be awesome. Now currently In real estate photos I desaturate yellow and orange with lightroom, then open the image in photoshop to mask the areas I want. It would be much faster to have the HSL be brushable. 

This is one of the main reasons I keep looking to other software. Adobe, if you are reading this, you are falling behind. You need to start making improvements or we're just going to find better software to use.

To all who argue on technical ground in this feed: you are missing the point. 

The point is: when clients and long-time users keep asking for a simple fix just provide it - don't lecture; enough lecturing already.

I agree with *Johan Elzengathe new Color Range Mask local controls are much more selective than the HSL panel controls. IMHO they are also much easier to use and provide better results once you understand how they work. See my post below for more details.

https://console.getsatisfaction.com/photoshop_family/conversations/hsl_controls_for_adjustment_brush...

Here's an example using the new Color Range Mask control compared to the current global HSL controls. The objective in this example was to remove the color saturation in the Magenta color block. A Graduated filter was applied to the right chart to allow comparing the results with the left chart. You can apply ANY number of settings and will achieve the same degree of selectivity, which is far superior to the HSL sliders TAT control. You can download and test this image file for yourself: https://www.dropbox.com/s/u2df6jd7ernto41/IMG_1837_Canon600D.dng?dl=0

Color Range Mask Controls



HSL Controls

Thank you Champ and .... while you may or may not be correct - depending on your personal standards on what good color is, telling clients that what they hanker for repeatedly and insistently is available via workarounds and that they should just read up on it is .... a marketing 101 no-no and probably experienced on the receiving end as tantamount to tone deafness (forgive the pun). Is that what Adobe is looking for? The fix can't be that technically challenging for Adobe.

While I agree it would be easier to have HSL sliders, you do have the functionality already. You can select the skin only by using the adjustment brush, if needed combined with a range mask. Then you can adjust the saturation with the saturation slider of the brush, and the hue with the white balance sliders of the brush.

Exactly.