P: "Blotchiness" Brush

Forum|Forum|9 months ago
May 14, 2025
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It would be lovely if I could select a field, such as a wall or sky, and tell LR to even out the tones in the brush-delineated area, to eliminate blotchiness and weird darkenings and lightenings. Existing tools seem to be not quite adequte to accomplish this in skies, a common problem. Such a tool might somehow "average" the tones' luminosity etc.

Sameer K

Community Manager

Hello everyone,

The MAX release for Adobe Photography products includes an update addressing the requested feature.

If the update isn’t visible in your Creative Cloud app, refresh it using [Ctrl/Cmd] + [Alt/Opt] + [R].

Please note: It may take up to 24 hours for the update to appear.

Thank you for your continued patience.

Rikk Flohr_Photography

Community Manager

You may want to try out the new Color Variance Slider being shown as a Camera Raw Early Access feature and let us know how it performs for this type of edit.

Details: https://community.adobe.com/t5/camera-raw-discussions/p-early-access-color-variance-camera-raw/td-p/15295671

Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org

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dallas_8373Author

Participant

That will be useful down the line, so thanks! It worked perfectly following your instructions. What I'm hoping Adobe will do is give us a way that I can select an area and tell it to derive an "average" of the range of colors within the selection, and replace the selection with that average. With a bit of AI it could also leave in place significantly darker or lighter details such as creases, lines, etc that are not within the mean or center of the distribution of colors, but that is asking a lot.

JohanElzenga

Community Expert

If I understand you correctly, then what you want is a brush (or other type of mask) that paints a solid color. Many people think this does not exist in Lightroom Classic, but you can do this using curves. First, sample the color you want to use. Hold your cursor over it and write down the RGB values underneath the histogram (if you see percentages, then right-click on the histogram to turn that off). Now, create a (brush or other) mask and go to Curves. Use the point curve and set the individual color curves to the RGB values you sampled. Set each curve as a completely horizontal line at the measured value, so each pixel in the mask gets the same value, regardless of its original value. The result is that brush that paints a solid color. Obviously you can use the same technique to create a solid color sky mask. You can even create presets for it. I hope this is clear enough. I'm typing this on my iPad, so I can't post a Lightroom Classic screenshot right now.

-- Johan W. Elzenga

jane-e

Community Expert

...how do I upvote my post?
By @dallas_8373

I think I remember that the original poster cannot upvote their own post. The UpVote button is in the upper left next to the subject line. If you are unable to click up UpVote, then that is the reason why.

Jane

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dallas_8373Author

Participant

Thanks -- how do I upvote my post?