Hi,
I’d like to suggest an improvement for the Reference View feature in Lightroom Classic.
Currently, when using this view, hovering over the image shows the RGB values for both the reference and active images below the histogram. However, this is only useful when the tones you want to compare happen to be in the exact same position in both images — which is rarely the case.
My proposal is to allow users to place pairs of color sample points (eyedroppers) — one on the reference image and one on the active image.
Ideally, we could place multiple pairs (e.g. up to 3–5), and click on the pair we want to activate. This would display the RGB values of those two specific points side by side under the histogram (e.g. R: 120 / 135 — G: 200 / 185 — B: 180 / 170).
This would allow for much more accurate and targeted color comparisons between images, which is especially useful when trying to match color, light or white balance across a series or between unrelated shots.
Alternatively —and perhaps easier to implement, though less versatile— there could be a keyboard shortcut (e.g. Ctrl+Shift+click) that lets the user "lock" the RGB value of a specific tone in either the reference or the active image. This locked value would then stay visible below the histogram. For example, you could Ctrl+Shift+click on a shadow tone in the reference image, and then on a similar area in the active image, to keep both RGB values visible while making adjustments. This would greatly improve targeted tone matching without requiring exact spatial alignment.
Thanks for considering these suggestions.
P.S. I wouldn’t be surprised if someone already suggested something like this, but I searched the forum and couldn’t find it.
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