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.
My idea is simple. Add HSL panel to masks as well. So that for example one can bring back the true skin tone whilst still leave the background untyched by the HSL changes to the mask.
I’d like to request the addition of Color Mixer functionality to the Adjustment Brush in Lightroom. I believe this feature would significantly improve the precision and quality of localized edits, particularly for those of us who deal with specific color adjustments in portraiture and other detailed work.
My Workflow:
I regularly work with portrait photography, and one recurring issue is the redness in my clients' faces, which I need to correct. Typically, I use Lightroom’s Color Mixer to shift the red hue and reduce saturation globally, but this approach can have unintended consequences: it affects other red elements in the image, such as lips, clothing, or background elements, making it hard to correct just the skin tones.
To address this, I have had to develop a workaround:
I begin by making global adjustments in Lightroom, exporting the file as a 16-bit Adobe RGB TIFF.
I then move to Photoshop, where I apply Camera Raw as a filter on a Smart Object. This allows me to access the full Color Mixer tool while applying local adjustments with layer masks, giving me fine control over where I apply those color corrections.
This gives me the precision I need to reduce the red in just the skin tones, leaving the lips and other red elements unaffected.
However, this process is time-consuming and requires me to switch between programs, disrupting my workflow. If Lightroom had Color Mixer functionality integrated directly into the Adjustment Brush, I could apply these color corrections more efficiently, without having to export to Photoshop every time.
Why This Feature Would Improve My Workflow and Image Quality:
Localized Color Control: With a Color Mixer in the Adjustment Brush, I would be able to reduce facial redness without affecting other red elements (like lips or clothing) within Lightroom itself. This would give me much more precise control over my color edits.
Time Efficiency: The current process of going back and forth between Lightroom and Photoshop adds significant time to my editing workflow. Being able to stay within Lightroom for these adjustments would allow me to work faster and keep everything in one program.
Maintain Image Quality: While working with TIFFs and Smart Objects in Photoshop is a good workaround, keeping the entire editing process within Lightroom would ensure that I’m working directly with the RAW data for as long as possible, allowing for more flexible and non-destructive adjustments.
Fine-Tuned Control: Currently, Lightroom’s Temp, Tint, and Saturation sliders in the Adjustment Brush are too limited for targeted color adjustments. A Color Mixer would offer me the ability to finely control hue shifts, saturation, and luminance within specific areas, ultimately leading to higher-quality, more polished images.
In conclusion, adding Color Mixer functionality to the Adjustment Brush would dramatically improve my workflow and the quality of my images by providing more targeted and efficient local color corrections. This feature would also benefit many other photographers who rely on localized color adjustments in their work.
Thank you for considering this feature request, and I hope to see it implemented in future updates!
May I request to include the color mixer pallette in the create new mask. Really a very big helpful inclusion. As in very big help in the editing process
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As the name suggests, the Create New Mask panel creates the mask, based on different possibilities like color range, luminosity range, sky, people, brush, etcetera. I don't see how you can create a new mask based on the color mixer. The color mixer is one of the edits you can apply in the masked area, once you have created the mask.
In any mask you create, we have the following adjustments: light, color,point color,effects, curve, and details. I am requesting to add color mixer in the adjustments.
Having the color mixer adjustment in masks makes each color adjustment precisely manageable. For example, I mask the clothes that have many colors in them. And I want to make green less saturated and darker,color mixer can do the job very well. Yes,I can use the point color adjustment but the color mixer adjustment is a lot better. Most especially when dealing with the skin. The red splotches can be easily and preciselytamed by color mixer
"In any mask you create, we have the following adjustments: light, color,point color,effects, curve, and details. I am requesting to add color mixer in the adjustments."
OK, that is what this thread is all about. But that is not what you said. You said you wanted it in the Create New Mask options. That is why I said that this would not make sense.
In the meantime, look at the mask options. As you can create a mask using color range, you basically already have that, except with a different interface. It may take a while to get used to that, but I think you have already more powerful options right now than adding color mixer to the mask would give you. I do understand that some people prefer a familiar interface, however.
Same here. In my case, it's easy for me to change the green leaves to fall colors behind a wedding couple using a color mixer because the bride is in white and the groom is in a black suit, no green in their outfits. However, in a pre-nuptial shoot where the couple might be wearing something green, I cannot change the green leaves in the background to fall colors without also affecting the green in their clothing. Now, imagine if there is color mixer adjustment in mask. By masking the background, we could change the green leaves to fall colors without impacting the green in the couple's outfits. Most importantly in dealing with the skin. When we mask the face and body, we could easily adjust the skin tone to our liking and remove any red splotches. This would be a powerful addition to the already strong tools available in ACR.
Hi Conrad. Even before reading your reply, I was already using point color and indeed it's a big help in the masks. However, the color mixer adjustment is much more powerful than the point color. For example, I want to change the green leaves in the background mask to a fall color, the point color doesn’t have much color range as far as to the fall color, it is limited to within the green range.Nonetheless, the point color helps tame red splotches in the skin. I’m a fashion photographer and my work is very meticulous in color harmonies. Especially in designer outfits. I often use the clothes mask to balance hues and color groups. I watched one YouTube tutorial video about color harmonies and indeed the lady lecturer paused and was looking for the color mixer as she was lecturing. I’m sure many other ACR users are encountering this concern when dealing with color harmony. I have been so excited each time ACR is updating to check if color mixer is being added. When point color arrived, I immediately used it but have seen its limitations.I hope color mixer will be added soon.This in not to downplay point color, I like them both in the mask.
Have you tried doing this in the mask with Point Color? Point Color is a 'Color Mixer on steroids'. And for adjusting all the skin tones of a 'skin mask', you also have the Hue and Saturation options. It may take a bit of learning because Point Color is fairly new, but I don't think that Color Mixer would add anything to masks that you do not already have (and if Adobe feels the same way, it will most likely not add color mixer to masking...).
Here is my reply to Conrad in a similar discussion:
Hi Conrad. Even before reading your reply, I was already using point color and indeed it's a big help in the masks. However, the color mixer adjustment is much more powerful than the point color. For example, I want to change the green leaves in the background mask to a fall color, the point color doesn’t have much color range as far as to the fall color, it is limited to within the green range. Nonetheless, the point color helps tame red splotches in the skin. I’m a fashion photographer and my work is very meticulous in color harmonies. Especially in designer outfits. I often use the clothes mask to balance hues and color groups. I watched one YouTube tutorial video about color harmonies and indeed the lady lecturer paused and was looking for the color mixer as she was lecturing. I’m sure many other ACR users are encountering this concern when dealing with color harmony. I have been so excited each time ACR is updating to check if color mixer is being added. When point color arrived, I immediately used it but have seen its limitations. I hope color mixer will be added soon. This in not to downplay point color, I like them both in the mask.
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!]
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.
I agree that there are ways to deal with the desired color changes in every isolated mask but they are cumbersome and beating around the bush. What some people don’t realize is that Adobe is aiming to keep ACR intuitive while constantly improving the app.
I always use the point color. Having the color mixer with it in the mask would provide the default‘stack’ color samplers. It would yield a wide variety of hues to meet color harmonies.
We can discuss this forever, but that's pointless (no pun intended). I cannot change this any more than you can. And I don't think Adobe will change it either. If they had any intention of adding color mixer to masking, they would have done that long before they introduced the Hue option and then Point Color. Never say never, but I wouldn't hold my breath.
Yeah, the two requests are now merged, which makes sense. Don't forget however that this thread started in 2011(!), when there was no Hue tool and no Point Color in local adjustments. At that time it made much more sense to ask for it than now, but here we are 14 years later, and there is still no color mixer in masking. So I can only conclude that 143 upvotes in 14 years don't impress Adobe very much.
I was just having a conversation with someone on IG about this and saying not to hold your breath. When Adobe released the mixing tool, we started pushing to get it applied to masks. It seems their solution was the point color tool. It can be done this way, just slower and more work, but it does have advantages that the mixing tools doesn't, like refining the color selected.
Before all the major Adobe apps consolidated into one subscription, Adobe Singapore called my boss to offer a significant discount on Adobe Premiere license. My boss was thrilled but questioned Adobe about the large discount. Adobe explained that it was due to increased competition. At that time, my boss had switched 60 of our computers to Mac, and Mac was in the process of upgrading its Final Cut software.
Going back to this discussion, if ACR and Lightroom continue to improve at a rapid pace, it could significantly hurt their competitors. There are many alternatives to ACR and Lightroom, with some being 5 to 10 times more expensive. I believe Adobe has graciously allowed competitors 14 years to capture their share of the market, but that's a long wait for loyal Adobe subscribers.
The color mixer in masks is a powerful feature; it works in conjunction with point color, similar to how they function in the global adjustment. While point color can refine a selected color very well, the color mixer provides a wide range of options for color grading and harmonizing. Most free and paid color grading presets are created using ACR or Lightroom with the color mixer as one of the key component.
Mohon untuk di buatkan fitur pengeditan masing masing warna detail pada fitur masking, seperti pada pengeditan warna campuran, karena itu sangat berguna jika ingin menyesuaikan warna pada masking, jadi kita bisa mengedit warna tertentu saja, apalgi jika masking manusia atau object yang bermacam warna, saya sangat menunggu fitur itu sejak lama
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