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One function I find invaluable, that is available in Capture One but not in Lightroom, is the availability of the Curve Tool in the masking portion of the Develop Module. Can you please add Curve Tool function within the Develop Module's Mask Tool?

thanks,

Ed Rudolph

andrzejv90126968

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Super ze ta funkcja w koncu sie pokazała

Teraz czekam na HSL w maskach

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Earth Oliver

Legend

While i appreciate the effort that Adobe has finally made, why did it take more than 15 years? In that time, i've needed the tool 10's of thousands of times, as have countless others. This feature was requested the day local corrections were introduced (well before that, actually) and we've been begging for it ever since.

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Rikk Flohr-Retired

Greetings all,

Updates for Adobe Photography products have been released. The April 2023 updates have implemented this feature request. Please see the product for more details.

If you do not see the update in your Creative Cloud Application, you can refresh it by hitting [Ctrl/Cmd]+[Alt/Opt]+[ R ].

Note: It may take up to 24 hours for your update to be available in your Creative Cloud app.

Thank you for your patience.

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Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org

Zealous_fantasy5D53

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Please please we could really do with this feature enable in Lightroom classic. Many thanks.

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UlysseLb

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If you dont know: "command save your image in lightroom, drag it in photoshop so it opens in Camera Raw, do your masking there, click done, return to lighroom and click on the "update" icon that should have appeared, choose "read from file".

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richardplondon

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One issue distinguishing local adjustments (masked) from the global curves we already have, is that local adjustments are applied pre-Basic panel operations within the processing chain.

Tone Curve is applied post-Basic panel operations within the processing chain. Thus for example, currently you can retrieve highlights that would be otherwise blown, by putting in a local adjustment - but you cannot do the same, with Tone Curve - that only redistributes the output from local plus global Basic adjustment.

Hence it's hard to see how the Tone Curve algorithm that we already use, can itself be made local in its action as-is. Rather, some new option is needed AFAICT. I'd have been grateful enough for a local HSL panel, say, but await the implementation in LrC with interest.

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C.Cella

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@richardplondon

Everything is developed in ACR and ported to LrC

Masking Curves are coming next...they were only delayed due to time constraints.

The new Mask asettings UI clearly is the first step for the implementation of Curves.

Probably in January we will get it 🤞

P.S.

LrC being left behind and not having the same features is a problem in itself: Curves is not the only missing feature/tool in LrC.

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