Color Editor adjustments
Having played with the CO-9 trial and specifically the Color Editor masking functionality I decided to go back and see if I could do some of the same with CO-8. What I wanted to do was see if I could select a color and then remove that color selection from parts of the image. That is, if I had several houses (or flowers, or birds, or ...), all with the same color, and selected that color with the CE, they would all be selected. Could I then use the erase brush to remove one of those houses from being selected. It is easy to do this with CO-9 and I had never tried it with CO-8.
I made a color selection and then selected the erase brush and tried to remove the color selection from parts of the image. No luck. I assume because there is no mask the erase brush has no effect. So the question is - is there some way to remove part of a color selection in CO-8? I know I can control the breadth of the color selection, but if multiple items are all the same color and I only want to adjust one part, is there any way to do that? I am not referring to using the masking brush to make the initial selection. Again, I know I can do that. But using the Color Editor.
Thanks.
I made a color selection and then selected the erase brush and tried to remove the color selection from parts of the image. No luck. I assume because there is no mask the erase brush has no effect. So the question is - is there some way to remove part of a color selection in CO-8? I know I can control the breadth of the color selection, but if multiple items are all the same color and I only want to adjust one part, is there any way to do that? I am not referring to using the masking brush to make the initial selection. Again, I know I can do that. But using the Color Editor.
Thanks.
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What if you
- create a new adjustment layer,
- invert the (non-existing) mask (from the 3 dots),
- do the color selection and -adjustment,
- erase the mask where you don't need it?
This will do the 'all except this' part, and you don't need to paint the mask manually.
Regards,
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[quote="HansB" wrote:
What if you
- create a new adjustment layer,
- invert the (non-existing) mask (from the 3 dots),
- do the color selection and -adjustment,
- erase the mask where you don't need it?
This will do the 'all except this' part, and you don't need to paint the mask manually.
Thank you. It is a bit counter-intuitive, but it does work. Almost as neat as the solution in version 9. And less expensive.0 -
[quote="MikeFromMesa" wrote:
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Thank you. It is a bit counter-intuitive, but it does work. Almost as neat as the solution in version 9. And less expensive.
You're welcome. It's just the way I use it when I need it.
I have checked out what v9 does here. The masking adds the use of other local adjustment tools to the color-selected areas. That's nice, but I'm not sure if it adds something to my current workflow. Let's wait and see.
Regards,
Hans0 -
[quote="HansB" wrote:
You're welcome. It's just the way I use it when I need it.
I have checked out what v9 does here. The masking adds the use of other local adjustment tools to the color-selected areas. That's nice, but I'm not sure if it adds something to my current workflow. Let's wait and see.
The big draw for me was the ability to edit the masks and hence the question I posted. You have shown me that it is possible to do the same with 8, although it is a bit more work.0 -
You can perfectly edit mask in 8.
But of course converting colour editor captured colours to mask is possible only in 9.0 -
[quote="Andriy.Okhrimets" wrote:
You can perfectly edit mask in 8.
But of course converting colour editor captured colours to mask is possible only in 9.
Yes. I should have been clearer in my post. What I meant was
The big draw for me was the ability to edit the selection made by the Color Editor and hence the question I posted.
These are not masks in version 8 and hence can not be edited in the same way as in version 9,0 -
Yeh, that makes perfect sense now. 0
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