Color editor in local adjustments - question

NetanyaD90

• July 26, 2014 12:45

Hi,

Question - if I make a mask/adjustment layer - and then that layer is chosen. Let's say I further want to make an advanced colour editor change, so I choose a colour with the dropper.
When I check "view selected colour range" it effects the entire image, not just the adjustment layer. And then when I actually make a change, it also affects the whole image and not just within the adjustment layer.
I want to make the change only within the adjustment layer. So what am I missing here? Is there a way to do this? If so, perhaps I am making a mistake. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Jeff

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  SFA

  • July 26, 2014 13:15

  Jeff,
  
  The regular tools that can be used with layers (see the Layers Tab in the default workspace screen for the full current set) can be set to work with the current layer or the whole image.
  
  In the Layers Tab all the tools are preset to work on the selected layer as you use them (uncluding the Background of that is the current selection)
  
  In other tabs the default for the tools is to work on the main image ( perhaps more easily thought of as a background layer if layers are in use.)
  
  You can toggle that on a tool by tool basis (for the tools that work with layers) by clicking on the small triangle at the extreme right of the tool's menu bar and selecting setting the "Adjust Selected Layer" toggle to whatever you want it to be.
  
  Should you need it you could have 2 instances of the tool on screen with one set to work on the whole image and the other with the selected layer although I am not sure that it would be entirely useful to do so for most people.
  
  If you already know this and are applying that logic yet still not getting the expected results it would suggest that something else is going on. However, for now, see what happens using the suggestions above.
  
  
  HTH,
  
  
  Grant

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  NetanyaD90

  • July 26, 2014 17:36

  Hi Grant,
  
  Thanks for your time.
  
  It is still not doing what I expected. And I want to make it more clear to you because perhaps I am mistaken and I don't want to rant about something that I have done perhaps wrong!
  
  Let's say you have an image and the entire image is one colour (for example).
  
  When you get to the local adjustments, you have the background selected and checked.
  
  Now, I add an adjustment layer in the upper right quarter of the image - just one forth the area of the image - I hope this is clear.
  
  I go into the colour editor and the adjustment layer is checked and is orange, i.e. selected. I cannot uncheck the background, but it is not selected and above the image, the name of the adjustment layer (and not "background") is written.
  
  Now, in the advanced section of the colour editor, I select a colour. Clearly this is the same colour of the entire image. However, I am in the adjustment layer! When I check "view selected colour range", I would expect that it would only take place in my adjustment layer, however, the entire image stays colour and not "greyed out" . Ok - perhaps this applies to the entire image. However if I move "lightness" to the right, the entire image gets lighter.
  
  I looked at the little triangle aside the colour editor, and it says "adjust selected layer". What I "want" is just to adjust the colour in the selected adjustment layer. In this sample (and non-realistic, but just for example) image, I would like to see the adjustment of the colour only in the upper right hand quarter of the image, as selected.
  
  My image is sort of like that. I selected "part" of an almost uniform region as my adjustment layer - just to test this out. I then, whist being in the adjustment layer (selected etc) went into the colour editor and selected that colour. When I checked "view selected colour range" not only the colour in my adjustment layer remained, but all of that colour throughout the image remained. And when I increased the lightness, that colour in the entire image got lighter. I did not expect this.
  
  I hope I explained this more clearly. Do you have any idea what I am doing wrong?
  
  Thanks again for your time,
  Jeff

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