P: RGB Parade and Vectorscope in Lightroom?

Wow, pigs are actually flying!

Maybe now we’ll also finally get HSL readouts in Lr, in addition to the mostly useless Lab ones.

… cool...

So I found this 3rd party plugin that will take a selection of your screen, and show you  the vector scope values.  Not as good as Davinci, but it will allow you to modify your selection for the scope much easier for skintone isolation.  It's like $15 for the bundle and I would say it's worth it.  

https://vectorscope.co/

https://vectorscope.co/

Hi Adobe Team,

I'm coming from a video and color grading background, and I'm really missing proper scopes in Lightroom. In tools like Premiere Pro, Lumetri Scopes provide waveform, vectorscope, RGB parade, and more — these are essential for accurate color correction and exposure control.

In contrast, Lightroom only offers a basic histogram, which is frankly quite limited. It's surprising that such a powerful photo editing tool still lacks advanced scopes, especially considering how useful and standard they are in professional workflows.

Are there any plans to introduce real-time waveform or vectorscope views in Lightroom? This would be a massive improvement for anyone who takes color seriously and wants precise feedback beyond what a histogram can offer.

Thanks for considering this!

>RPP is nice to know about, but the Mac version doesn’t appear to have been updated since 2014 and does not support currently availale cameras. (Raw formats are unique to each camera model’s sensor data.)

https://raw-rpp.livejournal.com/216443.html 
Last update - year 2024. The program is being updated. In particular, profiles for different cameras.

Hi, 

I have also been wanting to use some vectorscopes and waveforms in my workflow. I created a interface which can display the most common scopes for a certain part of your screen (basically you define a region of interest which is being tracked). Its free and it is not super fancy, but for me it does the trick. You can download it on github

https://github.com/JulianOstertag/Vectorscopes-and-Waveforms

Isn't it easier to develop photos in RPP (raw photo processor), where the quality of development is better (by an order of magnitude) and there is a vectorscope? And then refine the resulting tiff file in Lightroom/Photoshop.
You shouldn't pray to the big guys at Adobe. There are completely different tasks there.

@makedits Your points are also well taken. For many, photography and video are no longer silos. And, Adobe already seems to know this and are willing to migrate features across the disciplines. For example, when the more user-friendly color controls in Premiere Pro and After Effects were overhauled a few years ago, they were redesigned to look like Lightroom color controls and names (Highlights, Shadows, Vibrance…), and that led to what is now the prominent Lumetri Color panel in those apps.

Some photographers have become aware of the powerful selective color curves in Premiere Pro (which may have been in DaVinci Resolve first) such as the Hue vs Sat curve. Similar to this waveform/vectorscope thread, a few of those photographers, after seeing what those curves can do, are asking why we don’t have those curve types in Lightroom and Photoshop, and why we are still stuck with basically the same curves most photo apps have had since 1990.

Photography and print certainly do not have any kind of monopoly on the best color correction tools. Hopefully Adobe will continue to spread more of the best features between the photo and video apps, in both directions, as appropriate.

If photographers could learn the basics of the scope, or be given a simplified version of it, I am sure they would find it indespensable, even if it simply let them pinpoint an average fleshtone. This would give one or both products an even greater leg up on the competition.

By @makedits 

It depends on which competition it is. Although most photo apps don’t have them, one prominent photo editing app added the waveform and vectorscope a few years ago. It’s an app that is often considered one of the primary competitors to Photoshop. If Adobe added the waveform and vectorscope to Lightroom or Photoshop, it would not be a leg up on that app…it would be catching up.