Photoshop is lacking False Color any workaround?

[ivan25349743g7a0]

I recently started to use False Color for video and noticed that photoshop is lacking it, only thing they provide is overexposure and underexposure warning that actually is useless as as soon as you out of clipping it stops showing.

Need full featured false color overlay that stay's on always.

[Conrad_C]

There are ways to set up adjustment layers (especially using gradient maps and LUTs) to provide a sort of false color evaluation of an image, but of course it’s a workaround. I haven’t used those techniques, but you can do a web search like “false color photoshop”. False color is one of many color correction aids that are very useful in video, but not in Photoshop because it started as an application to support print and then web workflows. 

For example, there is a long-standing feature request to add features such as RGB parade and vectorscope to Photoshop, and even though these provide much more useful color correction information than the histogram, it hasn’t been implemented. Probably because print and web designers aren’t trained to understand them.

If no one has submitted a feature request for building false color into Photoshop in the Ideas section of this community, you can submit one there and see if people vote it up the chart.

[Ithinky]

False Color, Vectorscope and other Scopes in Photoshop... Why not? And Histogram in Bridge...

[c.pfaffenbichler]

Photoshop is not dedicated video editing software – its name should make that clear. 

[Ithinky]

Agree... so why does it manage to edit video? It was a photography software many years ago, now it's a design, photography, 3D, 360 and video app...   🙂

[c.pfaffenbichler]

Agree... so why does it manage to edit video? 

I specifically wrote »dedicated video editing software«. 

One might be able to use a small power screwdriver to drill a hole, but if one needs to drill a lot of holes in a lot of materials then a proper powerdrill will probably be the better choice. 

If one is serious about video editing and/or animation then one should not rely on Photoshop to do the job – in my opinion – and not expect a fully developped feature-set for those tasks.

[davescm]

' ..now it's a design, photography, 3D, 360 and video app... '

Actually it is not. 3D functionality has been removed and along with it the 360 functionality which used 3D. The video functions are very limited compared to the dedicated applications. It fits in the CC range of apps as a dedicated raster image editor that integrates with the other applications.

That said, I would have no issue with vector scopes being available in Photoshop. For false colour it would be easy to set up a Gradient map to do this, using Blend If to restrict its range if required.

Dave