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bsshank
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May 3, 2023
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P: Color Balance 3 slider

  • May 3, 2023
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I would like the three color balance sliders that photoshop has put into Lightroom. I use the cyan/red slider a lot in PS but as a wedding photographer I do not want to edit them all in PS just to allow for this.  Adjusting the HSL sliders to compensate for this lack of a slider is time consuming.  Please consider adding this. 

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JohanElzenga
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February 19, 2025

With zero votes in two years my guess is that this is not at the top of Adobe's priorities list...

 

-- Johan W. Elzenga
bsshank
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February 19, 2025

I get that there are other ways to do it, but I don't always want to do all of that when I have 2000 photos to edit.   I want to adjust exposure and then the color balance sliders and move on, just keep it simple.  To each their own but Lightroom to me is about efficiency so it makes sense to have the same box Photoshop has.  They are not the same and do not produce the same results.  I use the photoshop one a lot, usually sliding it more toward the cyan.  Cyan is not blue.  To replicate that I have to go down and try to do it in HSL sliders.  Never looks right so then I have to go to round trip to PS and back.  It is just so much time wasted, when it could be so easy.   

JohanElzenga
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February 18, 2025
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I would like the three color balance sliders that photoshop has put into Lightroom. I use the cyan/red slider a lot in PS but as a wedding photographer I do not want to edit them all in PS just to allow for this.  Adjusting the HSL sliders to compensate for this lack of a slider is time consuming.  Please consider adding this. 


By @bsshank


Not really. Like Rikk says, there are more powerful ways, but you would not even need three sliders if there weren't. With the current two sliders you can get any color change you want already. If you want to increase red for example, then simply increase magenta and yellow.

 

-- Johan W. Elzenga
Rikk Flohr_Photography
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February 18, 2025

Most customers currently make this type of adjustment in the Tone Curve (RGB Curves), which is visually hinted for these three color combinations. It is far more powerful and nuanced than these simple PS sliders.  It also can be a local adjustment.

Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org
bsshank
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February 18, 2025

I should not have to ask for this, it should already be there.  It makes no sense to have the two without the third.  This feature should have been included in the original release.  

JohanElzenga
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February 18, 2025

If you agree with a feature request, then add your vote (click on the number in the left corner). As you can see this is not a very popular request...

 

-- Johan W. Elzenga
bsshank
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February 17, 2025

Color Balance: This is an easy one. Can you please add the cyan/red slider to the color balance box in Lightroom, like you have in Photoshop?  

It would be a big timesaver, rather than have to go in to those colors individually.   At the end of the day, less steps is the goal.  Thank you!