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Butch_M
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March 31, 2011
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P: HSL Adjustments for Local Adjustment Tools

  • March 31, 2011
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The addition of HSL controls for the adjustment brush and the gradient tools would be a wonderful advancement and offer LR another great feature set that I'm sure would come in handy for the vast majority of Lightroom users.

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    andrzejv90126968
    andrzejv90126968
    Known Participant
    March 18, 2023

    HSL w maskach bardzo by sie przydał mi tez twgo brakuje najlepiej jeszcze jak by było koło bawr tak jak jest Capture one

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    Scott Wiseman
    Participant
    February 6, 2023

    The AI face masking is a fantastic feature. The ability to select faces, other skin, and individual features is such a time saver compared to manually selecting. Now more than ever it would be very beneficial to have the HSL/Color panel available for individual masks. Teeth yellow? AI mask, go into yellow and lighten/desaturate. Bloodshot eyes? AI mask sclera and go into red and lighten/desaturate. You can do a universal color saturation and lightness adustment but not specific colors. This doesn't give the same great result that being able to work with the specific colors can give. If possible, please add this feature. Thank you.

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      NWRS
      Participant
      January 17, 2023

      why cant we get hsl adjustments on masks? if i only want to edit hsl in one part of the image i cant, this feature would be extremely useful

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        NickBrisbane
        Participating Frequently
        November 24, 2022

        Any way you can develop a way to use the HSL panel in a masked area?

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          MajorTommy
          Participant
          December 1, 2021

          Hi,

          I wanted to pass this on to the developers of Lightroom (and even Adobe RAW). This would be a feature people would hopefully find useful. I always assumed it would eventually be introduced, but it still hasn't been - so here we are 🙂


          https://youtu.be/bh12Nr_7FhY

          Thanks for reading/watching

          Tom Hall

          ericn93573823
          ericn93573823
          Participating Frequently
          November 4, 2021

          I'm editing a picture with fall colors in the background and two people in the foreground.  Enhancing the fall colors was done by using the color mixer.  However, this caused the teeth of the two people to turn yellow because there was a little yellow in their color.  Also their skin color became orange as the orange leaves behind them were enhanced.

          What I'd like to do is apply the color mixer only to the background.  It's possible to use the new subject mask feature to select the background, but the sliders that can be used with the mask are too limited to adjust all the colors in the background.  Putting masks around each one to adjust hue, saturation, intensity would be a long and messy procedure.  Instead I used the mixer, and then tried to desaturate and decolorize the teeth with radial gradients and when that was not precise enough, the masking brush.  This took a LOT of time and the results were much worse than the teeth looked in the original.  

          How do you solve this problem?

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            richardplondonCommunity Expert
            Community Expert
            January 25, 2025

            Perhaps use a Color Range selection in a mask and then apply a colour temperature adjustment - add a brushed selection to this mask set to Subtract, and paint out any areas you notice which accidentally include in this Color Range selection, but where you do not want the adjustment.

             

            I like Color Balance as a generally mild and 'believable' tweak, because it applies so progressively and subtly onto varying colours without tending to obscure relative hue distinctions within those. 

             

            [Adobe even when localising for the UK where I am from, still uses the US "Color" spelling for its interface, so I do reflect that when discussing the software features - capitalised - but I still maintain the right to spell this word 'colour' otherwise!]

            JohanElzenga
            Community Expert
            JohanElzengaCommunity Expert
            Community Expert
            January 25, 2025

            Agreed. There are many way to do this. What many people do not realise is that you can change the hue of a color using Point Color much further than you may think, because you can 'stack' color samplers. You can pick a color, change the hue as much as you can, and then pick this new color as a new source for another Point Color hue correction. With two or three patches you can change green to fall colors this way. I haven't tried this lately, but I remember trying this out when Point Color was just introduced, and it worked.

             

            You can also do this at the mask level (that's what I would normally try). Intersect your initial mask with a color range mask, so the mask only targets the colors and the area where you want to change those colors. Then you can use masking tools like Temperature, Tint, Hue, Saturation to achieve your goal. Think outside the box and you'll find that there probably is nothing you can't do with masks yet, that you could do if masks supported color mixer as well. Granted, having color mixer as well would sometimes make it easier and quicker, but as long as you don't have that option, use your imagination instead.

             

            -- Johan W. Elzenga
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            Per5EEB
            Participant
            January 21, 2021

            Say I want to make red tones more intense or light but just inside a selection, selection made with radial filter for example. Can I do that in lightroom? If I have to go over to PS for this task, what would be the quickest way? If it's NOT possible inside LR I very much like to see this feature added!

            dj_paige
            dj_paige
            Legend
            January 21, 2021

            There is a Saturation local slider, there is an Exposure local slider, and there is a Hue local slider (in the last few versions of LrC). So, select the area of interest, then adjust the saturation, exposure and hue as needed.

              Rob_Cullen
              Community Expert
              Rob_CullenCommunity Expert
              Community Expert
              September 4, 2020
              >"It would be fantastic to just have that same old panel available there, too!"
              With respect, I do not agree. The Hue sliders in global HSL panel are very restrictive (they only change hue to adjacent colors.  Orange<Yellow>Green). The Brush & Gradient Hue adjustment is 'full spectrum'- much more useful.

              Regards. My System: Windows-11, Lightroom-Classic 15.3, Photoshop 27.5, ACR 18.3, Lightroom 9.3, Lr-iOS 10.4.0, Bridge 16.0.3 .
              Todd Shaner
              Todd Shaner
              Legend
              September 3, 2020
              Agreed! It's EZ PZ and waaaay more selective and accurate. Good video tutorial here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DBGOGbKTBM
              Bob Somrak
              Bob Somrak
              Legend
              September 3, 2020
              You can change Hue, Saturation and Lumininance (Exposure) with the local sliders now so I don't see what the issue is.  Local HSL is essentially implemented.  Maybe not how you would like to do it but it works well.
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