change color of an element in a mask

[alexander_P_999]

hi, i am not able to change a color like in the privious versions of lightroom classic. e.g. in the pic attached the grey color marked with the green line. before, i just just the funktion ->area correction (if i remember the name). Hope somebody could help me :-)Ciao Alexander

[JohanElzenga]

How exactly are you trying to do this? This area does not have any color, it is grey. That means you cannot use something like HSL, but you can mask it and then add a color overlay.

[alexander_P_999]

Yes you are right. i took away any color, and then tried to put in an other color. But i did not succeed ...because the color spectrum does not have a possibility with the pipette to choose a color in the picture and apply it to the area in the mask. are there any good tutorials on this? thanks a lot for your help.

[JohanElzenga]

Sorry, I don't know any tutorials. I'm sure you can find some if you Google for it, though.

[Rob_Cullen]

Check this Julianne Kost video at about the 15minute mark-

MASKING - EVERYTHING TO KNOW

[Jao vdL]

You can drag the eyedropper in the color overlay tool into the image. 

This will give your river the sky color for example:

[alexander_P_999]

hi, thanks a lot almost solved. Just don't understand why with the eyedropper i could not choose darker colors which are in an other range like in the red area?

[FSt0p]

The issue here is that you don't understand how this works.

This is not color replacement, it overlays one color over the other (blends).

So blending light grey with black will give you dark grey - this is what you get.

If you just want it darker just use exposure or tone curve, there is no need for color overlay at all.

[alexander_P_999]

you are right i m new. or not so expert...but i will lern. but is there any possibility to change a color within a mask. thanks for your patience 🙂

[JohanElzenga]

The problem is that you selected something that has little or no color either. The area you marked red is almost black. White, grey and black are not colors. The saturation of their 'color' is zero. Lightroom does have the Hue option in the mask panel, but this only works for real color. What you can do to change a grey area is use the color overlay as discussed, or you can use Curves and change the individual color channel curves.

[alexander_P_999]

thanks a lot. i will try to understand the overlay topic. in any case the tutorial ->Julianne Kost video is very helpful