Selective color correction "Lightroom"

I have two suggestions for Lightroom.
1.) Please absolutely for the next update an improved function for a selective color correction. Select with a pipette the color and over an input window the information selectively work on. That One should be able to determine sphere of influence still additionally. At present this is not yet satisfying. (see and compares, Photoshop PlugIN: aurelon "coco", or Software DxO Optics Pro v4.5).
2.) Information window that comparably as in Photoshop the values for RGB 0-255 indicates.

I am working with RGB images trying to adjust to get colors in gamut and to maintain detail before converting to CMYK.
If you are trying to bring totally oversaturated RGB colors into the CMYK gammut, then ideally you will have to learn about channel mixing. It may be necessary to reproduce the Cyan channel (Red) by finding detail from other channels. Selective color, as you've discovered can only take you so far.
Luminosity blended Hue/saturation adjustments taken to low opacity is another high end tip, and work around. If you cant deal with the complexity of masking and channel mixing

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Selective Color Correction - Adding to multiple channels

Hi - I am using CS3 on a Mac OSX 10.5.6
I am experiencing an oddity when making color adjustments with Selective Color Correction. I am working with RGB images trying to adjust to get colors in gamut and to maintain detail before converting to CMYK. As an example, I have an image comprised of various red items. I want to add cyan to get some detail for the highly saturated areas. Regardless of the Relative or Absolute setting, when I add cyan I am also getting a lot of black added. By the time I get a 3% dot in cyan I may have 10-12% K. When I reduce the black it also reduces the cyan.
Is this because I am in RGB mode? I want to make these adjustments before separating to CMYK so I can keep detail that is getting blown away in the conversion. I would have hoped that because it is controlled with sliders for CMYK it would isolate it's effects to the specific channel but that is not what is happening.
Any ideas?

I am working with RGB images trying to adjust to get colors in gamut and to maintain detail before converting to CMYK.
If you are trying to bring totally oversaturated RGB colors into the CMYK gammut, then ideally you will have to learn about channel mixing. It may be necessary to reproduce the Cyan channel (Red) by finding detail from other channels. Selective color, as you've discovered can only take you so far.
Luminosity blended Hue/saturation adjustments taken to low opacity is another high end tip, and work around. If you cant deal with the complexity of masking and channel mixing

Selective Coloring in Lightroom 4

I just got Lightroom 4 last night. When I was in college, I used Illustrator and, we learned how to do selective coloring. I have no clue what I'm doing in lightroom 4 to do this. The set up is way more intricate than I anticipated. I've searched for videos online and, they are all for older versions of Lightroom and do not work. Could someone PLEASE tell me step by step how to use selective coloring in Lightroom 4??

It works, but you need to desaturate with the adjustment brush.
Use a huge brush and desaturate the entire image.
Then use a small brush and hold alt to delete your mask where you want the color back.
When you globally desaturate, you can't get the original color back, you can only color with the colored brushes.

Selection, Color Correction and Blending

How do I make a selection of ALL the yellow on the Meatball building and make it a deeper yellow the way it has been done in the attached photographs:
BEFORE
AFTER
Someone suggested playing with the Color Range: Select/Color Range and then use the lasso tool plus the option button to delete what you don't need. But that's not working for me. Any other suggestions?
And in the next photo, what is/how do you achieve the blended effect on the area that is the where you would more obviously see that this is made-up of two photos? It's a blending mode right? Which one?
Thanks!

The answer in both cases is it come down to masking. Masking is nothing more then a selection and the selection can have both hard and soft edges to help layer blend better. Blending modes and bend if setting can also help with colors. I'll do a little example with your first image since you did not post both layers for the second image.
You need a good selection of the store not perfect. I started by using select Color range to get a starting point selection. Then I switched to the quick selection brush to improve the selection. Remember when using the quick selection brush you need to use the two modifier keys Shift and Alt. Shift to Add to the selection and Alt to remove from selection. I then saver the selection and then fathered the selection 1 pixel and saved it again. With the feathered selection active I added a hue and saturation adjustment layer. The selection was added into the layer masked added. Adjusting the layer effect only the store because of this. You can adjust the layer using opacity, fill, blend modes and blend if as well as using the adjustment layers sliders and check box. I also activated the selection so you can see the marching ants to get some idea of the selected area. To change the color I checked the colorize checkbox in the adjustment properties and mover the sliders. You can color the store just about any color you want. http://www.mouseprints.net/old/dpr/3-storefront_web.psd

Selective Color Correction (FCP 4.0)

I've heard that this is possible -- any help/insight would be greatly appreciated:
I have a shot of somebody sitting in a bathtub full of red water...however, unfortunately on the un-color-corrected image, the water registers more pink than red. However, all the other colors in the shot are pretty dead-on, as was intended.
Can somebody tell me how to isolate the water (it's the only pink color in the whole shot) and color time it, and it alone, to a deeper red (i.e. so it doesn't affect the rest of the elements in the image)?
Thanks in advance!
Powerbook 15" Titanium Mac OS X (10.4.6) 1 GHz

You'll need to use the "Limit Effect" feature of the 3-Way Color Corrector filter. This article may help: http://www.kenstone.net/fcphomepage/basic_pleasantvillelook.html
-DH

Selective Color Correction

This may be better done in After Effects - any pointers in Premiere or After Effects will be appreciated. I would like to keep one color in a video clip and make remaining colors sepia or black and white. I found tutorials to single out one color and change that color. But how do the other way - keep single color and change all other colors?
Thanks.
RV

See this:
http://kb2.adobe.com/community/publishing/501/cpsid_50125.html

Where does Lightroom save color correction info?

I'm having a problem with Lightroom in the way it saves the color correction information attached to a raw file.
I'm using raw files off of an external hard drive, color correcting them and then saving that whole folder to my internal hard drive.
The problem is that after I disconnect the external hard drive and import the folder from my internal hard drive, none of the file conversions I just made are showing. This is extreamly frustrating and time consuming as I'm adjusting about 1000 files at a time.
Why is this?
The external drive is my client's so I have to find a way to get the color corrected raw files on both drives.
Thanks to anyone that can help

Here is my work flow:
Working on 1 computer in 1 version of Lightroom that is set up to save the Catalog on my internal hard drive.
I attach client's external drive and use the Lightroom Import dialog to add files to catalog without moving (they stay on the external and I edit them there).
Working in Lightroom I make the adjustments to the CR2 files that have stayed on the external drive.
"At the end select all the images and save metadata to file." I believe I have missed this step. I though Lightroom did this automaticly.
Is this my problem?
After making the adjustments I selected all of the files from the external and copied them to my internal drive, however I did this outside of Lightroom.
This may have been a problem also.
If my catalog has been stored on my internal drive the whole time why did the developing information not get saved to it?
"You can also do this by exporting a catalog file from the source machine to the external disk and then importing
this catalog into the target machine."
Using this technique in the future could I do all of this?
1. edit the files directly on the external drive
2. save the metadata to the files
3. export the files (though lightroom) onto my internal hard drive
4. have the raw files on my internal hard drive with the saved development made to them and be able to open them in lightroom and see them adjusted
5. have the raw files on my client's external hard drive with the saved development made to them and be able to open them in lightroom on another computer and see them adjusted
Thanks again for all of your help!
C

Action written in CS4 won't run correctly in Elements 11 - specif. the "selective color" layer

I created an action using Adobe Photoshop CS4, and it runs correctly in CS4. When I save and load the action into Elements 11, there is a problem with the selective color layer. The selective color layer shows up in the layer stack along with the expected message that it can't be edited b/c it was created in the full version of Photoshop. However, the layer itself does not have any color/changes in it.
In Photoshop, the selective color layer makes the photo look pink. When I run the action in Elements11,the selective color layer does absolutely nothing to the photo. I do have the eye turned "on" to view the layer, and it's set at the correct blending options & opacity (normal, 100%).
If I run the action in Photoshop, save the file with all the action-created layers, and reopen the file in Elements 11, THEN the selective color layer shows its correct pink color. But when I run the action as a stand-alone action in Elements11, it does not.
Can anyone offer help as to why this is happening? Is there something special I need to do to make the action work correctly in Elements 11? My understanding was that it should RUN and create the layers correctly, although some of them will not be editable in Elements11. However, as it stands, it is not creating them with the correct color.
Thanks in advance for your help!

You probaly need to record the action in a little different way in photoshop cs4 to get the selective color adjustment layer to work.
Try something like this:
1. In photoshop cs4 add an selective color adjustment layer, but don't do any adjustments and stop recording the action.
2. Undo the selective color adjustment layer and then double click on on the selective color adjustment layer step in the actions panel
and when the dialog opens set your adjustments and click ok.
Now it should work in pse 11:

Camera Raw 5.5 VS Adobe Lightroom (color correction)

Hi, does somebody know if discarding the advantage of making layers of Photoshop, is the Adobe Lightroom color correction controls superiors to the CameraRaw PS Interface correction controls ??? I mean for color correction purposes is Adobe Lightroom better tan PS's camera raw interface ???? because for me both controls seem to be pretty much the same thing, does anyone know something about it ??
Thank you in advance !

RicardoAngelo wrote:
I mean for color correction purposes is Adobe Lightroom better tan PS's camera raw interface ???? because for me both controls seem to be pretty much the same thing, does anyone know something about it ??
Both Camera Raw (most recent version) and Lightroom (most recent version) share the EXACT same processing pipeline...however, there are subtle differences in usability. For example, ACR 5.6 has a Point Curves Editor...Lightroom doesn't. Lightroom has a powerful capability to control output size and resolution which Camera Raw doesn't have...
Bottom line is they are two horses of a different color but each is capable of performing the same tricks...so use whichever app allows you o accomplish what you need to do in the shortest and easiest process...

Lightroom 4 won't save color correction to .R3D file

Really didn't have problems until export. I'm amazed with how fast Lightroom plays playback on .r3d files. Anways after all the color correctrion is done I try to export the file to its original format (r3d) but upon playing the file in Red Cine-X, non of the color corrections I made are saved. It's as if I didn't edit the file at all. However if I choose to save the file as a H264 and play the file, all my corrections are saved. So it only doesn't work if I choose to export my file as the original R3d format. Anyone know whats wrong or how to solve this?

Hi mikey,
LR never writes to original files, and it does not do sidecars for videos.
So in order to view your LR adjustments outside LR you need to use a format which LR can write to, like H264.
Cornelia

Lightroom VS Camera Raw 5.5 (color correction)

Hi, does somebody know if discarding the advantage of making layers of Photoshop, is the Adobe Lightroom color correction controls superiors to the CameraRaw PS Interface correction controls ??? I mean for color correction purposes is Adobe Lightroom better tan PS's camera raw interface ???? because for me both controls seem to be pretty much the same thing, does anyone know something about it ??
Thank you in advance !

They seem the same because they are the same thing. Lightroom is basically an interface built around the camera raw processing core so you will get exactly the same results. The only thing really that you can do in Camera RAW that you can't in Lightroom is point curves (the interface simply doesn't expose them at the moment), which are almost never needed in raw conversion, except if you do special effects. I almost never use Photoshop anymore as Lightroom basically does all I need.
P.S. the latest version of camera RAW is 5.6! Lightroom is at 2.6. The last number corresponds not by accident.

Auto-select clip under playhead? (for color correction)

Hi all
Another newbie question concerning color correction in FCS2.
When moving from clip to clip in the timeline, the viewer (which contains the 3-way color correction filter) doesn't refresh until I remember to double-click on the current clip to select it. In other words, if I change a filter on one clip, then move in the timeline to the next clip, the viewer still contains the previous clip's filter, and if I forget, I'll start fiddling with it, thinking I'm now looking at the current clip.
Still with me?
So, my question is, is there an "auto-select" feature whereby, as I move my playhead along the timeline, clips on a selected track (eg V1) will automatically get selected and loaded into the viewer?
I know there is an auto-select feature for tracks, which I've enabled for my video track, but it doesn't seem to be meant for what I want.
Thanks!
Matt

If you set the SYNC to OPEN, what is being played in the time line (and displayed in the Canvas view) will also be displayed in the Viewer.
Just a point of clarification - the Viewer doesn't hold the CC filter, it will only display the filters that have already been applied to currently displayed clip. If the next clip displayed in the viewer has not had the 3way CC applied, the 3way CC won't display as part of the filters on that clip.
Good luck,
x

Translating Lightroom color correcting to Final Cut pro...

Hi all,
My director friend has seen me color correct images in LR with grace and skill, and wants me to start doing color correction for his films. I have never used Final Cut Pro before, and wondered if the controls in Final Cut were similar to LR, if you could export and import between the two, and generally what the difference was between working with color in each. He has one of the RED cameras, which shoots in RAW, so I assume the different can't be too great. If anyone's proficient in both, the lowdown would be much appreciated!
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Alec
www.alecquig.com

If he shoots with RED, why isn't he using RED's copy of Lightroom that's specifically for their cameras, and is provided free? It's called RedCineX, I think.

LR - Selective Coloring Techniques in Lightroom | The Complete Picture with Julieanne Kost | Adobe TV

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Hello--When I use my adjustment brush with saturation set to -100, it is not taking out all the color from my photos. Instead it adds a red hue. Please advise as I would like to be able to selectively color my photos.

Unable to Export Color Corrected Video's to Original format for AVCHD (GH2) and ProRES Codecs.

I imported a 176 MBPS AVCHD clip from my GH2 into Lightroom 4, then i added color presets to the video and color corrected the video, however during export when i select the video format as original the color correction does not apply to the video, only the original video is saved, But when i select H.264 or DPX the video is saved with the effects applied. I also tried using a AVCHD clip converted to Apple ProRES but when i export the video the effects are not applied to the saved video. Also the option i get for saving H.264 files is only 22 MBPS.

Original, whether for photos or video, means "unedited". Bear in mind that this isn't intended for high-end video editing - just simple edits for digitial photographers. It won't replace your video editing software anytime soon, if ever.

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