prominent color create mask

[Doug.S]

Once I select a prominent color I'd like to see where/what colors/areas are selected...visually as in a mask.

If already possible, please explain how.

If not, suggest you add a feature to click to yiled a corresponding mask to see areas affected and to save/apply mask to a layer adjustment of choice.

Or perhaps show such areas in gray as done elsewhere in Ps....but that is marginally usewful.

[Stephen Marsh]

@Doug.S – How exactly are you selecting a colour?

Some tools like Select > Color Range have a "selection preview" option.

With an active selection, you can use the "q" key to toggle in and out of Quick Mask mode, where the selection is converted to a temporary alpha channel alowing pixel based edits/filtering before being converted back to a selection.

[Doug.S]

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@Doug.S
<>/7232772> - How exactly are you selecting a colour?



Open an image, click on adjust color in contextual task bar,
click on one of the prominent color buttons which makes a
H/S adj layer and provides an HSL adj dialog to "adjust" the
selected color(s).

Hit Q for quick mask does nothing. I can adj color but must
keenly view the changes and the adj may not be easy to see
on whole image even if you make a wild strong adjustment.

Much better if the color button had a choice to see and save
the mask or color selection info or displayed on the image
by opposite color or gray to see the areas to be adjusted.

Would make the tool even more useful

Doug

[Doug.S]

Open an image, click on adjust color in contextual task bar, click on one of the prominent color buttons which makes a H/S adj layer and provides an HSL adj dialog to “adjust” the selected color(s).
Hit Q for quick mask does nothing. I can adj color but must keenly view the changes and the adj may not be easy to see on whole image even if you make a wild strong adjustment.
Much better if the color button had a choice to see and save the mask or color selection info or displayed on the image by opposite color or gray to see the areas to be adjusted.
Would make the tool even more useful
Doug

[Stephen Marsh]

Hit Q for quick mask does nothing.

By @Doug.S

That's why I asked you to clarify how you were "selecting" a colour. Quick Mask is used with an active selection (marching ants).

[westdr1dw]

Would not saving the selection work? 

[Stephen Marsh]

Would not saving the selection work?

By @Doug.S

*IF* you have a "marching ants" selection, yes, it can be saved to a permanent alpha channel, or used as a mask for a solid color fill layer etc.

But it doesn't sound like you have a selection.

[Doug.S]

Correct! The "selection" is hidden within Ps and is not available to save from menu.

[westdr1dw]

In Windows hiding a selection CTRL +H, View/Extra would toggle the selection off/on?

[Stephen Marsh]

There is no selection, so I would forget about it.

[Douglas36573679wdb3]

Not willing to forget. I submitted a suggestion for a useful future rev.

[D Fosse]

@Douglas36573679wdb3 @Doug.S 

As far as I can tell here, "prominent color" isn't working at all. The preview correctly shows what colors are predominant in the image - but you can't actually do anything to those colors. Moving the sliders does nothing.

The rest of the Hue/Sat panel works as it should.

Now, "prominent colors" is a function I would normally never use, and personally I have a hard time seeing what this is supposed to be useful for. But that's just me. As long as it's there, it should work.

With all that said - this is an adjustment panel, producing an adjustment layer, it is not a selection tool producing a selection. Hence no preview of any selection: there isn't one. So maybe this boils down to an ambiguity of the word "selection". But the real problem is that it doesn't actually work.