P: HSL Adjustments for Local Adjustment Tools

But don't forget the graduated filter trick, outside image :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEwetJGgKA0

ON1 photoraw 2019 as plugin for Lightroom or phototoshop when lightroom is not enough. it could replace lightroom but some features remain better in lightroom in library, print and develop modules.

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I absolutely 100% want this as well!!!!!  Adobe, it's time for Lightroom to 'grow up'!  Without the ability to control HSL settings locally, Lightroom is just a glorified 'toy' IMHO.  I can't say the number of times I've needed to decrease a colour's saturation, or change a colour's hue on a SPECIFIC part of an image.  What are you waiting for?

Does anyone know of another image editing program that currently allows users to easily adjust HSL settings to specific parts of an image?   If such a program exists, it might be time to ditch Lightroom altogether!

because these damn libraries are sooooooooo useful.... really?

And this is the reason why a lot of serious photographers turn their nose up at LR. I love LR but I have to defend it amongst my peers. Adobe could take it to the next level and be a real competitor to Capture One but they are stuck in a pro-sumer mentality, adding features that cater to the middle market. 

The reason Adobe doesn't do what seems evident to most anyone using Lightroom is probably for reasons other than those we suspect. Usually because Adobe is run by non-users like ... techies, or .... accountants. Logic from a user's point of view has nothing to do with corporate decision making most of the time. Most corporations are run in a similar dis-embodied manner it seems. Go figure.

2019 and this still isn't a feature, pretty disappointing adobe!!!!

I agree!
In Capture One, make layer, paint mask, adjust anything (inside or outside) mask, including HSL
<https://learn.captureone.com/tutorials/color-editor/>
Come on Adobe make it simple  like this

I watched the video and yes it is an effective way of altering colors; however, it is not nearly as straightforward as tweaking sliders which we have understood for, what, a decade?  How do you use this approach to boost (not reduce) colors that are not in the image?  Most people using the HSL sliders tweak more than one slider control, e.g. reduce the green and yellow sliders if grass is too green or boost both if not enough.  So the sliders do give us effective AND SIMPLE control over a range of colors.  Why not give us the set of controls we already understand?  Other products do.