Local edit selection tools
Hi, I'm a newbie user.
Having tried local selection adjustments I find the selection tools somewhat lacking (using brushes, gradients etc).
For example a very common need is to darken the sky only. Imagine for instance trees with needles and leaves in front of the the sky. With these tools it is practically impossible to do precise selection which does not omit any little patches of sky, which may be hundreds. So the partial editing will not effect these and the result is of course unnatural.
One solution would be colour selection option, but that does not seem to be available either (and besides it works globally). Not to mention advanced lasso, wizard etc tools in some graphics programs. I do have Photoshop, but things like local white balance would be better to be done in C1.
I like C1 for what it does best, suberb overall RAW rendering, but I would be still more happy if the selection tools would be high in your development list.
Having tried local selection adjustments I find the selection tools somewhat lacking (using brushes, gradients etc).
For example a very common need is to darken the sky only. Imagine for instance trees with needles and leaves in front of the the sky. With these tools it is practically impossible to do precise selection which does not omit any little patches of sky, which may be hundreds. So the partial editing will not effect these and the result is of course unnatural.
One solution would be colour selection option, but that does not seem to be available either (and besides it works globally). Not to mention advanced lasso, wizard etc tools in some graphics programs. I do have Photoshop, but things like local white balance would be better to be done in C1.
I like C1 for what it does best, suberb overall RAW rendering, but I would be still more happy if the selection tools would be high in your development list.
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One possible solution might be coarse local selection combined with colour selection within it? I mean selection based on several properties, a logical editor. 0 -
[quote="NNN635594447779474249" wrote:
One possible solution might be coarse local selection combined with colour selection within it? I mean selection based on several properties, a logical editor.
You can use the Advanced colour editor with masked selections. It should get you more or less what you want I think, though perhaps not exactly as you would like to see it functioning. It might take some experimentation to understand how to get (or get close to) what you want to do.
HTH.
Grant0 -
[quote="SFA" wrote:
[quote="NNN635594447779474249" wrote:
One possible solution might be coarse local selection combined with colour selection within it? I mean selection based on several properties, a logical editor.
You can use the Advanced colour editor with masked selections. It should get you more or less what you want I think, though perhaps not exactly as you would like to see it functioning. It might take some experimentation to understand how to get (or get close to) what you want to do.
HTH.
Grant
Thanks. I will try that.0 -
[quote="NNN635594447779474249" wrote:
Hi, I'm a newbie user.
Having tried local selection adjustments I find the selection tools somewhat lacking (using brushes, gradients etc).
For example a very common need is to darken the sky only. Imagine for instance trees with needles and leaves in front of the the sky. With these tools it is practically impossible to do precise selection which does not omit any little patches of sky, which may be hundreds. So the partial editing will not effect these and the result is of course unnatural.
One solution would be colour selection option, but that does not seem to be available either (and besides it works globally). Not to mention advanced lasso, wizard etc tools in some graphics programs. I do have Photoshop, but things like local white balance would be better to be done in C1.
I like C1 for what it does best, suberb overall RAW rendering, but I would be still more happy if the selection tools would be high in your development list.
What you want is a local tone mask that stops on tonal boundaries. Sadly no RAW converter offers this rather simple selection tool. However, NIK Viveza offers exactly this kind of selection with their control points... Which are really one click local tone mask selections. It couldn't be more intuitive or efficient to select a sky, a building, a shadow, a face, anything! Get yourself the NIK suite of plugins... If you're anything like me, it will change your post process immensely. It makes brushes seam medieval in comparison 😉0
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