Local adjustment - preset

David Umberto Zappa

• 21. Oktober 2017 11:58

Hi, this may be a silly question but I was wondering if there is a way to apply a saved preset to a local adjustment. For example when I shoot teetered I apply a certain preset that may include skin tone correction. Naturally this applies to the entire image and if there are tones in the clothing for example these may be affected. Then when it comes to post producing the images after the shoot I erase the global adjustment of the skin tones (which may have been saved as a preset) and create a local adjustment just for the skin of the model. There, instead if reselecting and adjusting the tone I would like to reuse the one saved as a preset but it seems that the specific tool menu is not available.

Am I doing something wrong?
Thanks!!!
David

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  NN636274225804497206UL

  • 25. Oktober 2017 16:00

  So I do color grading using the "Color balance" tool (and sometimes using the new Spectrum styles). I was trying to see if the color balance tool could be used in local adjustments but it cannot. It appears to be global only.
  
  Then I looked at some other tools, but it appears you are stuck. Tools like the "color editor" allow for presets only when not being used on a local adjustments layer. As soon as you create a new adjustment layer, the preset selector drop-down gets grayed out.

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  Ste-1

  • 25. Oktober 2017 17:08

  One thing you could try, if all your images are relatively similar, e.g. portraits, is to create the local adjustment for the first image with the setting you want, and then copy and apply the adjustment layer to all the other images. Then you just need to adjust the mask on each image where needed.
  
  It's not an ideal solution, but it may help 😄
  
  Thanks

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  David Umberto Zappa

  • 26. Oktober 2017 07:19

  Hi, yes this is what I ended up doing... copy the adjustment and paste onto the next image rebuilding the mask.
  The only thing is that you might reuse the values of a certain tool onto a totally different shoot therefore also session and that implies to do as I have done so far: create an overall adjustment to be applied during the tethered session or at import then go into the local adjustments and try to replicate the values.
  
  Don't see any other way for now.
  Thanks

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  SFA

  • 26. Oktober 2017 09:40

  [quote="NNN634572958496678958" wrote:
  Hi, yes this is what I ended up doing... copy the adjustment and paste onto the next image rebuilding the mask.
  The only thing is that you might reuse the values of a certain tool onto a totally different shoot therefore also session and that implies to do as I have done so far: create an overall adjustment to be applied during the tethered session or at import then go into the local adjustments and try to replicate the values.
  
  Don't see any other way for now.
  Thanks

  
  
  When working with sessions you can make any image from anywhere (more or less) part of the content of more than one session.
  
  So if you set up a folder of images with specific sets of local adjustments that you might re-use in other sessions you can simply its images or the entire folder with other sessions, thus making them easy to copy and apply.
  
  There are some limitations.
  
  You cannot copy and apply individual layers.
  
  If you copy layers from one image to another any existing layers on the target image will be removed.
  
  Overall it's not ideal by any means but is you regularly apply the same or more or less the same overall or localised adjustments to images BUT need the control of layers (for Opacity for example) or masking for selective adjustments it should be a usable option.
  
  That said I tend to just set things up afresh for a selected "first adjustment image" in the session and then use that as the basis of a copy and paste to other images. Much of be activity is for outdoor shoot it as it comes images so usually there is much that cannot be controlled and adjustments can vary quite a lot from shot to shot. Having an adjustment layer of a particular type is useful but the specific values to be applied and the location of the adjustment in the image can be quite variable.
  
  For a controlled shoot in a studio or similar situation the concept of pre-defined layers to be copied and applied could likely be more effectively deployed.
  
  One other constraint is that there are a limited number of layer available to work with although realistically the limit is probably enough for straight image adjustment and a little more. Heavy re-engineering of an image at the pixel pushing level is probably a task better suited to a different type of tool.
  
  
  HTH.
  
  
  Grant

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