P: "Intelligent" Grain, preserving Highlight zones

Thank you for the insight, Color.io seems very cool and powerful. 

But I'd rather have a proper nice grain feature directly in Lightroom... 🙂

Awesome suggestion and you're right that the grain looks unnatural especially on highlights. 

@ralphlouzon 

I tried IO Color, the way the tool add grain is close to film

It lacks just a bit of "chunky" grain with a bit more detail in the outline shape 

Thanks big brain I'm trying to help by answering on LAPTOT ( in case you don't know how to read ) not to make irritating replies 🙂

I was adding an idea to LR mobile linked to the subject

Anyway 

Yes, I do the same, two or three lumisosity masks to differanciate the grain. But it is slower and I have to reconsider the lum masks from one picture to another.

In Photoshop, adding a pure grain layer in Overlay mode to the background picture gives better results than the grain tool in LRC. Adobe could do someting similar in Lightroom I guess...: choosing a grain type from a panel of grain, overlaying the effect in various ways, setting the opacity of the effect. A little bit of Photoshop in Lightroom and avoid creating a TIF or PSD file just for that.

"Lr Mobile"?

Wrong forum.

At this time, it's a functionality that I miss on LR mobile... I really hope someone at adobe will make this possible 

Hey

When I edit on laptop, I use a luminance mask to add grain only in shadows. I get very good results since a few weeks ( you can see my work on maxoufaitdesphotos on IG )

yeah the lightroom grain has bugged me since it's inception. I always do the same in photoshop and have 2 grain layers, one for highlights and one for shadows for that same reason. for how good lightroom is, it's crazy that the grain options are still so limited, leaving it look pretty bad if i'm being honest.

this is a great idea.