Color Masking in C1 2023
HMM. maybe I am doing something wrong here. Let me give an example. I am editing a portrait or interior architecture. I see a color cast I want to remove. Sliders are too general and I need to target a specific color. I use the advanced color tool and eye dropper I select the range. I create a mask from the selection. Then the color wheel tool becomes unavailable until I click the eye dropper again, which makes no sense. I have the color range selected, why cant I edit it in the advanced color tool? Secondly the only tool not greyed out is the Basic Color tool, and if I use those sliders, even when only my color mask is selected, the entire image is effected. I don't understand what's happening. Same problem with Skin Color Tool. I pick a selection, make a mask from the selection, but yet regardless of the mask, color changes affect the whole image. Any advice?
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I'm only 90% certain I understood you correctly (and I am on version 22). Judge yourself:
If you create a mask from a color selection, a layer will be created. If you want to work with this mask you need to select the layer. In this layer (=the pixels in the mask) you can use (almost) every tool, including the color editors, but all tools are in their default state (and the Advanced Color Editor is no exception, it is empty (which is the default) and you have to choose colors again). It's what it is.
But wait, you don't need to create a mask if you only want to massage the pixels with the advanced color editor (you only need to if you want to use other tools on these pixels). Use the Advanced Color Editor (e.g. one or several Hue shifts) in the background layer, no masked layer.
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Well the reason for the mask is- i see when I am working with skin tone or any color for that matter, there may be other similar color pixels outside the subject I want to edit. So instead of shifting the whole image I want to adjust isolated areas. So you’re saying the mask from the color tools is just a blank mask- then I have to re select the color again within the masked area to be able to manipulate only the pixels inside the mask- maybe that’s what I’m not doing right- since the advance and skin color are greyed out after making a mask I selected the basic color tool - with the mask layer active and noticed the sliders affected everything- but I didn’t re select another color so maybe that’s the issue idk. I’m getting g a bit confused because I use photoshop for a lot of this kind of stuff but I’m trying to see if I can stay inside C1 and get it done and only send my files to PS for the really heavy lifting
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Ok I’m not at home at the moment. I’ll try it out again when I get back home later. What was throwing me off was I had the masked layer selected and color changes were universal and not just inside the mask but Maybe have to use the color picker tool and go back into advanced color tool or skin tool. Thanks for the input.
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I had the masked layer selected and color changes were universal and not just inside the mask
All changes incl. color edits should only be applied to the masked pixels. However, there is a checkbox "View selected color range" in the Advanced Color Editor which shows you the selected color in the whole image, disregarding the mask. Maybe that's what you observed.
when I am working with skin tone or any color for that matter, there may be other similar color pixels outside the subject I want to edit. So instead of shifting the whole image I want to adjust isolated areas.
In this case I would create a layer and brush a mask or use the magic brush etc., it can be sloppy at first and can be refined later. Only after having created such a mask I would use the Color Editor. One reason of doing so is that I mask the whole area (face or lips) with all pixels instead of only pixels which belong to a certain color range. If your mask leaves out some of the pixels in that area and you do some adjustments using color editor and or other tools it can happen more easily that it looks unnatural.
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Ok seems the problem was I still had the “view selected color” box checked- I assumed that when viewing a masked layer it would just show the colors in the mask layer but apparently that the two tools don’t interact with each other the way I had expected. Thanks for the help
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Yes, this function is disregarding the mask.
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