Comments on: Video – The Adjustment Brush Color Swatch

By: Portland Wedding Photography

Portland Wedding Photography — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 02:44:41 +0000

Seriously, I’ve been using LR pretty much since it debuted, and I NEVER REALIZED THE AUTO MASK FUNCTION!!! That makes things so much easier! Holy mole… dude, great discovery! Thanks for sharing

PS. But the brush is sooo sloowww… haha jk

By: Roops

Roops — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 21:21:38 +0000

Thanks Jason Miller for telling me about the adjustment brush. Mine disappeared and I couldn’t find it. Thanks for telling me that H toggles it on and off. Also O toggles the masked area selection view on and off.

By: DAD

DAD — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 22:59:27 +0000

I use it for changning temp on mixed lighted walls on interiors for instance.
Problems accure with the accuracy of the auto function though. If the room is lit by window light and has a wooden floor, the whole room will be allmost totally orange and the auto function starts to fail. I paint big areas and erase back the small ones. Works ok.

I wouldn´t use this for demanding costumors and nether should any one else.

I miss recovery as an option on the brush, what say you?

By: Gary Kenney

Gary Kenney — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 23:34:27 +0000

Hi Matt,

What if you want to replace the color of an object with black? Maybe this is just too easy, but I’ve looked and looked and don’t see it. Do you use a -100 exposure? Anyway, if there is another way, please let me know. Thanks for your time, and keep up the excellent work.

By: Joe C

Joe C — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 06:03:49 +0000

@ Joe and Clayton

So by just using the color swatch option, that’s not really useful as far as correcting the color temperature goes??

let’s say when I took the photo, I used flash and the indoor lights were all tungsten, but I forgot to use gel, the Color Swatch option wouldn’t help me to correct the color??

ie. the white shirt is always bluer than the tungsten, so wouldn’t it help if I add the orange/yellow color to the shirt to take away some of the blue tint?

By: Clayton

Clayton — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 05:35:25 +0000

@Joe

I totally agree! A color temperature option would be a fantastic update to the brush!

haha I thought I was the only on who thought that… I was actually really surprised when I saw that they didn’t already have it included.

By: Jerry Goure

Jerry Goure — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 22:29:02 +0000

@ Khuram Malik: I just saw a tutorial in which the color swatch was used to blend in a little orange on a woman’s face to simulate the effect of a particular light gel. In this case blending the colors was exactly what was desired.

@ Stefan Segers: I haven’t tried it yet, but I suppose you could use a desaturation brush and then erase over the part you want in color. But I don’t know how you’d gain control of the “Grayscale Mix” settings that way.

@ Paul Barcewicz: It’s not much in terms of instructions, but there is http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Lightroom/2.0/

By: John Elser

John Elser — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 17:34:17 +0000

Please Lightroom development department –
Please add a skin tone picker similar to the one in Capture One Pro 4. Even Adobe Elements has a skin tone corrector. You would think this would be one of the first tools they would add to a new version. but maybe they’re getting advice from Canon’s R&D department.

By: Joe Evans

Joe Evans — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:20:28 +0000

Thanks great tip. Only complaint(no it’s not about slow brush), check your adjustments on audio so that yhou do not pick up the lip smacks.

By: Stefan Segers

Stefan Segers — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:12:39 +0000

Hi Matt,

Couldn’t find your e-mail so let’s try it this way. Using the brush in Lightroom made me think for another effect.

I want to make a black and white image and brush a detail back into the original color. It’s like in PS using 2 layers. Top BW and under that the original. Then mask out the part what you want in color.

So for instance I have a couple with a flower. I ant everything black and white except the flower.

How do I do that?!?

I really hope you read my question. It’s often asked over here but I can’t figure t out.

Stef
info@stefansegers.nl
http://www.stefansegers.nl