LightRoom Classic editing colors are pale.

Question

Hello, I want to edit an image color (a robot skin that is white and I want to paint it in red). However, it doesn't apply the color correctly and dsplay a pink color. I'm using masks to select the skin area. I attached some screenshots.

Note: I have just downloaded LightRoom Classic. Also, I modified this image in Photoshop previously, but exported it in sRGB.

Thank you.

JohanElzenga · Accepted Answer

Like @Rob_Cullen explained, you can't brush color onto a white object because the color is an overlay. It adds color to the existing color, and because the existing color is white, there is nothing to add. All color channels are already (almost) saturated!

I do not agree with Rob that you can't do this in Lightroom, however. You can definitely do this in Lightroom, in another way: you must subtract the opposite colors from the white object using Curves. So to paint red, you paint with Curves and change the curves for green and blue by dragging them from the right top downwards. Drag the green curve to about 50% and the blue curve even further.

Rob_Cullen · Answer

Being a parametric editor, LrC does not paint color onto pixels in an image, instead the color Brush can only apply a 'Tint' of color, and only where there are existing tones.

This means you cannot Brush on white areas and apply color. Brush on light-grey areas and you will only see a very light tint to those areas.

To change an area of color markedly, you really do need to send the image to Photoshop.

The best you can do in LrC would be a Brush in Masking- set the Brush to a saturated color, and reduce (the underlying hues) to grey -100.

eg.Mostly white sky, Red Brush > Pink Sky!

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