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

  • March 31, 2011
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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

Known Participant
November 22, 2018
i forgot one point : and of course you still have the masking brush to remove the effect from unwanted zones.
Look for instance :
https://www.scottdavenportphoto.com/blog/in-post-dodge-amp-burn-with-luminosity-masks-385

marc

Known Participant
November 22, 2018
hello,
if it can help, it seems that a new technique is used now by using agraduated filter and put it outside the image so it applies to the whole image. than you adjust exposure, saturation,... AND you activate color range, luminosity range sliders to make local "hsl" 🙂

best regards
marc
Inspiring
November 21, 2018
They can keep going another 8 years to listen to real customers. They just want to update tool panel cause that was so important.
Participant
November 21, 2018
Agreed.  My current kludge for correcting colour casts on a portion of an image is to add an adjustment brush, slightly increase the exposure (e.g. 5) and then try to find a light complimentary colour to the unwanted colour cast by selecting a point in the Adjustment brush colour panel.  This is hit-and-miss but eventually works.  It would be so much easier to have a control (even a "slider") to reduce the saturation of the unwanted colour.  

Hmm, in the meantime, maybe just add a toggle to the Adjustment Brush colour picker that would allow the user to add OR SUBTRACT the selected colour.

This thread began 8 years ago.  Adobe, you can do better than this.
Known Participant
September 26, 2018
Tottaly agreem this might be one of the most needed things in Lightroom. Adobe should take a close look at Davinci Resolve and transfer some of those grading things to Lightroom...
Inspiring
September 26, 2018


It's mad that Adobe still haven't added the ability to adjust HSL for specific areas via the brush and filter tools. Even FREE web based editors like Pixlr have this feature! This needs adding ASAP
Inspiring
September 10, 2018
This would never get implemented. But support for libraraies are. Damn adobe really listens! NOT!
Inspiring
September 10, 2018
7 years and this is still not implemented.  Spent a good bit of time yesterday trying to figure this out thinking i was doing something wrong, but nope its just not a feature.  

This really does need added  HSL for brush adjustments would speed editing up tremendously. 
Known Participant
July 6, 2018


I can't think of the countless times I have wished for HSL adjustment features in Lightrooms adjustment brush, gradient and radial tool. It seems almost unnatural not having this option since it's already there globaly and since it would give us even more control of color rendition in our work. This would be a great step up and bring Lightroom on par with some of the other major editing programs.

So please Adobe, listen up and put this on your top priority list 🙂

Kind regards, Steen
Known Participant
June 13, 2018
hallo,

DXO photolab seems to have integrated this feature now !

Look how ON1 does that :
https://www.on1.com/blog/on1-short-clip-correct-color-on-landscape-photos/
Luminar and Topaz have similar features
I really wonder why i continue using Lightroom in develop.It takes years to Adobe to have basic features.
Remember in the past when Capture NX2 was so powerful while Lightroom 3 was still a toy.
best regardsmarc