Where is desaturate in Aperture 3?

Just started with Ap3 and to my surprise I can't find desaturate anymore ?????? It was one of the very usefull bricks to desaturate small parts in the Dodge and Burn plugin of Ap2. Anybody?

I return to this thread. Jade I also see now how much more there is hidden under the little coq wheel. Thanks for that. I've looked through all the possible options and yes they are impressive. But still I think we now miss a perfect and very intuitive way of dodging and burning as it was organised in AP2. There you could dodge and burn ( or saturate and desaturate) selectively and very quickly by just clicking repeatedly on a certain spot. The "build-up" of this was seen live by every click after each other. Wys(aw)wwyg(ot) there! Now in Ap3 one has to click once on a certain area, continue to another and so on before finally returning to the slider to move up or down to change the strenght and see the result. If you work with dodging and burning alot this is taking much more time and is a real step back since it's not live what your doing.
My question is still here: Have I still not found something hidden here? And also would it somehow be possible to reinstall AP2's dodge and burn plugin in Ap3? And if not are there any known plugins that can do this? Thanks again for any help!

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