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Suppose I want a graduated filter that affects only the light blue, but not the green or red of a similar lightness?
Is this possible, even if it involves multiple filters or other "trickery"?
Also, please note, that for this purpose, I can't use the erase brush to get rid of the light green or light red, its too complicated a scene.
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Turn on the range mask, select color mask, use the tool to select blue.
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The 'Color' Range mask does what you ask.
By placing a 'pin' on light tones of a color with the dropper tool- you select only those luminance tones.
My example in screen-clips:
1) The original image
2) A Gradient applied over the whole image, with the overlay showing as 'Red'.
The first dropper pin is on the lightest tones of 'Blue':
3) A second dropper pin is applied to the darkest blues at the top of the image. Note the Mid-tone blues are not fully masked!
4) A third dropper pin is applied to the mid-tone blues. Now ALL the blue sky is effectively selected (with the red overlay).
And -4stops exposure results as
Adjusting the 'Amount' slider to the lowest minimum indicates better how the three pins are selecting different luminance tones of the BLUE color-