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Local adjustments selection?

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I've looked at the local adjustments tool to help with an over-exposure problem and would appreciate some assistance. The photograph I am working on is of a bush with many small, yellow flowers. The bush and its background are well exposed but the flowers need some exposure adjustment (overexposed). The ideal treatment, as I see it, would be to switch on the on the exposure warning, add a layer and somehow be able to automatically select the indicated overexposed areas and make the exposure adjustment that way but I can't see how to set that up. Is it possible?

Alternatively could someone point me to an alternative treatment for such a problem apart from individually selecting over a hundred spots of over-exposure?
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  • Paul Steunebrink
    The local adjustment feature of Capture One is based on manual selection (by using a brush tool). Not very suitable in your example (a field with hundreds, maybe thousands of flowers) I think.

    You could probably better use the Color Editor tool because its selection is based on color. Next, you decrease lightness of the selected color (best to use Color Editor's Advanced tab, for which you need Pro or DB, not Express).

    Another option is to use the Highlight slider for dynamic range problems. For bigger problems of this type I use a technique in which I process a normal or bright plus a dark image. I pasted both raw conversions together in Photoshop (2 layers plus layer mask to control what is used form which layer).
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  • Permanently deleted user
    The correction with the Colour Edit tool in Advanced mode as Paul described works very well. Especially when then colour of the subject to be corrected is different from other colours in you image. For example, a yellowish green in the leaf may be affected too by the adjustments of saturation and lightness. In that case you still may try to tweak the colour selection bringing it closer to the desired colour by adjusting the selection in the top colour circle. It is a very powerfull tool and has even more potentials when used together with local adjustments layers, for example to enhance the sky.
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