Selectively undoing color editing

Jochen Kratschmer

• February 26, 2014 16:40

Here's the problem: I shot in a room with energy saving lights and took out the saturation of some nasty green hues with the color editor. Some parts of some images however contain greens that should be left untouched (leaves of plants, logos). Is there a way of selectively removing the reduced saturation for greens done in the color editor, maybe by using the color editor for layers?

0

• 

  sizzlingbadger

  • February 26, 2014 19:05

  Get rid of the global colour adjustment you made. Now use a brush and selectively remove the bad parts using the colour editor in the layers section.

  0
• 

  Jochen Kratschmer

  • February 26, 2014 22:16

  Thanks sizzlingbadger, I thought of that too. It's only that it was a conference and I took a few hundred shots, that's why I was looking for a simpler solution for the few images that contained the green tones. Theoretically it would be nice to automatically paint a full frame layer mask that would be editable in the layer tool.

  0
• 

  SFA

  • February 26, 2014 22:25

  [quote="sizzlingbadger" wrote:
  Get rid of the global colour adjustment you made. Now use a brush and selectively remove the bad parts using the colour editor in the layers section.

  
  
  
  Or, maybe, create a local adjustment layer and "invert" the mask so that it is applied to the whole image area. Make the adjustment you need like you have done on the primary layer. Then erase the adjustment for the areas you wish to leave untouched making use of the erase brush settings for opacity and strength and size to blend out the changes.
  
  Which approach you use would depend on how it works best for you on an image by image basis.
  
  HTH.
  
  
  Grant

  0

Post is closed for comments.