Advanced Colour Editor - Using it on layers

Permanently deleted user

• 14. September 2021 12:24

I am a new user to C1 V21 currently using the Trial version.

Have understood how the Colour editor works, however it does not seem to function when I use it on layers. Can someone provide inputs on whether the Colour editor works only on the background layer, or also on Adjustment layers? And is there any specific way to use it on Adjustment layers (becuz it does not seem to be functioning for me). Thanks.

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  Peter Gallagher

  • 15. September 2021 04:17

  I have the same question. Is there a layer opacity setting or something I'm missing? Color changes seem not to work (I'm sure they do, but how?)

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  Okular

  • 15. September 2021 17:46

  Yes, the colour editor also works on layers. I don't know any special instructions for it: create the new layer, draw your mask and change the desired colour.
  You should see an opacity slider in the layers tools just below the header. The mask brush has its own opacity setting and flow slider, both of which affect the degree of change in the mask area. You maybe should check these settings.

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  Ian Wilson

  Moderator

  • 15. September 2021 18:28

  

  To follow on from what Okular said, if you want the colour editor edits to apply to the whole image, create a new filled layer, and use the colour editor on that. If you want to apply it to only part of the image, either create a new filled layer, and delete the mask where you don't want it, or create a new empty layer and brush it in. But with no mask on the layer at all you'll see no effect.

  Ian

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  SFA

  • 15. September 2021 19:55

  To add a little more to what Okular and Ian have already written, there are different types of layers and different ways of creating masks that define how adjustments of any compatible sort are to be applied to the layers.

  One of the options in the Advanced Colour Editor is to be able to select a colour range and then create a mask that applies only to that selection. Is that what is at the core of the original question here?

  Selecting the mask created based on a colour range will do nothing more than create a mask. Further adjustments need to be applied to make changes to the colours selected.

  I am just wondering whether this is the basis for some confusion.

   

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  Permanently deleted user

  • 16. September 2021 04:17

  Thanks everyone for chipping in.

  Some of your replies, and a bit of experimentation at my end, have helped me understand how the Colour Editor works on layers. Infact, the Colour Editor and the Luma range work in a similar way, as explained below:

  When working on a layer for the above items, you first need to create a new Adjustment layer that is already filled with a mask. It CANNOT be an empty layer. I had been making the mistake of creating an empty adjustment layer, choosing a colour selection using the CE tool, and then trying to change its adjustments - and this wasn't giving any results. 

  If you want to apply adjustments to the whole layer, then fill it completely with a mask, or if you want it applied to selective portions, then use the brush tool to create the mask. In either case, the mask needs to exist before you apply the CE adjustments.

  Thanks for your responses everyone.

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