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December 21, 2018
Question

Change temperature for different part of the curve

  • December 21, 2018
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Hi everybody,

I wanted to know if it's possible to change kelvin value but juste for a part of the curve with lightroom. For exemple to give some warm tone to the hightlight.

Or to give some cool effect but just for the shadows.

For those who know this kind of software, it is like a grading tool for vidéo (Da vinci resolve for exemple) with the famous wheels of lift/gamma/gain. Where is it possible to give some temperature or tint but only in a part of the curve.

Thx For answer

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    Community Expert
    December 23, 2018

    I just thought of a hack to accomplish this. In Classic, add a local adjustment either a gradient or a brush. With the gradient position it so that it affects the entire image or if you use the brush, just brush the entire image. Now dial in that the local adjustment modifies your white balance how you want it. Enable the luminance Range Mask at the bottom of the selective edit section. Drag the range sliders to the part of the curve that you want to modify. Check with the "Show Luminance Mask" checkbox whether you are affecting the parts of the image you want to affect.

    Community Expert
    December 21, 2018

    You can do this using the split toning control. This is found (I am assuming you are really running the cloud-based Lightroom CC and not the desktop based Lightroom Classic) in the effects section of the slider tools by pressing on the icon next to effects that looks like a black and a white rectangle on top of each other.

    fabsim08Author
    Known Participant
    December 21, 2018

    Thx for answer

    I think I'am using the desktop based Lightroom Classic,  because I haven't this kind of thing in my panel effect...

    Ian Lyons
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    December 21, 2018

    If using Lr CC try clicking on the button with red border in below screenshot. If using Lr Classic then see lower screenshot