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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?

            ericn93573823
            ericn93573823
            Participating Frequently
            November 5, 2021

            Thank you for the reply!  I tried this.  The issue I had was that it was impossible to select a fall color and limit the mask to it.  It seems there were yellows in the greens, yellows in the oranges/reds, and blues in the greens.  I tried point selecting the color range, as well as dragging, to no avail.  Adjusting the sensitivity down took the mask from "way, way too much" to "too much"!    Theoretically I think you and I have the same idea, which is that the combination of the hue slider and intensity and saturation/vibrance should work as well as the color mixer but matching the effects of the individual color adjustment masks to the color mixer is tough.  The multiple masks seem to change the texture, which I tried to compensate for with reducing clarity, but as yet I haven't been able to match the two effects.  I exported the two attempts as "original plus settings and put then into a folder here since I can't upload them here.  https://www.dropbox.com/sh/uqsa8den6jsjkgn/AACkK5uBrRm0ZI0Sh9LPigoWa?dl=0

            Thank you for your help!

            Eric Novikoff

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            Ry5CFE
            Participant
            March 6, 2025

            Hi Eric,

                 Most of us are on the same page. It would make us very very happy when in the next update of ACR, the color mixer is added in mask


            Adding HSL Masking sliders as an alternative to the color point selector in color range mask, simillar to HSL Secondary in Lumetri/Premire Pro. 

             

            The color range is a great tool, but when batch editing shots where the color point moves it isn't ideal. Being able to mask with HSL Sliders as an alternative of having the color picker automatically adjust HSL sliders would be more useful I think. 

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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 15.1.1, Photoshop 27.3.1, ACR 18.1.1, Lightroom 9.0, Lr-iOS 10.4.0, Bridge 16.0.2 .
              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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