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November 22, 2022
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P: (Masking) Color Range Mask retains the same color when copied and pasted to a new photo

  • November 22, 2022
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Color range mask does not retain the same color when copied to another photo. Instead, the mask selects just a similar color. This makes the tool a bit annoying, since it always just guesses which color could be the one you need. It would be great if there would be the possibility to also choose a color, and then it saves the color for the mask, just as the luminance range mask does. When I select the skin tones for example and copy it to another image, where there is a person with another skin tone, the tool sometimes selects just a grayish green tone. For example, “adaptive mode” and “static mode”.

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kbarre
Inspiring
June 16, 2025

I’m wondering when Adobe will address the long-standing issue with pasting Color Range Masks between images. Currently, the pasted mask doesn’t retain the original color range—it instead samples the color from the same location in the new image.

 

As it stands, this makes the feature essentially useless, since the sampled color range in the new image can be drastically different unless the two images are nearly identical.

 

I asked Grok about the issue, and it gave a good summary of the problem here.