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The local adjustments

Joachim Neumann
I tested the new local adjustments of CO 6. Now I have the question if it is possible to give the adjustment area smooth edges? I found the edges to hard for local changings and I could not find a way to change that. Does anybody know if there is a way to do that?

Next question is if I can change the density of the local area after the definition of the area?

Thank You,
Joe
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  • Moshe1
    you can set the hardness of the brush:

    1. Right click anywhere in the viewer while in local adjustments mode (the local adjustments cursor was selected).
    2. A settings dialog with 2 sliders will open (one for the size of the brush and another for the hardness of the brush).
    3. Modify the hardness value by pulling the slider.

    Regards,
    Moshe
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  • Joachim Neumann
    Hello Moshe,

    thank you very much for your help. I saw this two sliders but thought that the second slider would be for the opacity. I think this mistake was because of a bad translation of the name of the slider into german language.

    In my second question I used the word 'density' but this was wrong too. What I was looking for is the possibility to change the opacity. After some "meditations" about the new adjustment tool I found that this would not be necessary. The tool works fine as it is.
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  • alexmac
    I am only able to adjust the exposure in Local Adjustments. Am I alone here?

    Win 7 64 bit
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  • Raymond4
    As far as I can see running the trial you can only adjust noise and sharpness in addition to exposure. It seems that you can add extra levels and hence perform these choices selectively over one another, which is good. The problem is one additional most useful adjustment for me locally is saturation which you can't do, yet?

    Ray
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  • alexmac
    I am running Pro full version... only exposure. 🙄
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  • Wade Oram
    Exposure and Sharpness here - but only the basic amount slider on sharpness.

    Wade.
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  • Joachim Neumann
    I can use:
    - Exposure
    - Sharpness
    - Color Editor with all four values

    I do not know the english names of all the functions and features but you can use the middle tab of the color editor. Then pick a color area with the cursor and you can use all four values of the color editor.
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  • Paul Steunebrink
    [quote="Raymond4" wrote:
    As far as I can see running the trial you can only adjust noise and sharpness in addition to exposure. It seems that you can add extra levels and hence perform these choices selectively over one another, which is good. The problem is one additional most useful adjustment for me locally is saturation which you can't do, yet?

    Ray

    You can do saturation with Color Editor. Different but useful I hope.
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  • Paul Steunebrink
    There is some confusion about what you can adjust/correct in an adjustment layer. Maybe this overview can help.

    There are four tools available for an adjustment layer: Exposure, Color Editor, Sharpening, Moire. However, three tools have a limited functionality (this might/might not change in future version, no idea) compared to their normal use in the default Background layer.

    In detail you have in the adjustment layer
      Exposure tool: Exposure slider
      Color Editor: Advanced and Skintone tabs
      Sharpening: Amount slider
      Moire: all 2 sliders
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  • Sheldon
    In the video that explains this in the help files, the presenter is able to adjust all of the sliders under the exposure tab. I just want to be clear here, is this something that is not fully functional at the present time (referring to Contrast, Saturation and Brightness) with only Exposure being able to be adjusted from this tab. I don't use brightness slider a great deal but it sure would be nice to have access to the saturation and contrast slider in this function.
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  • Paul Steunebrink
    [quote="Sheldon" wrote:
    In the video that explains this in the help files, the presenter is able to adjust all of the sliders under the exposure tab.

    If you refer to the Peter Eastway video it has not all the sliders under the exposure tab when using layers. Only at the end of the video when he selects the Background layer. Maybe you saw another video.
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  • Sheldon
    My mistake, I went back and watched the video again and the sliders are active while on the background layer but once you create a layer all except the exposure sliders become greyed out. I read your post that the functionality of these sliders may change in the future. IMO, it ads confusion to the end user when you have a slider that has no use even though it may or may not be used in the future.
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  • Mitch1
    Are you folks seeing the color wheel in the advanced color editor as a black circle, until you choose the 'pick color correction' tool and then actually select the color you want? In the video the wheel is full color before the selection of blue eyes; my wheel is black. Not a big deal since you can't make changes anyway until the color is selected, but I'm just curious at the difference.
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  • Paul Steunebrink
    [quote="Mitch1" wrote:
    Are you folks seeing the color wheel in the advanced color editor as a black circle, until you choose the 'pick color correction' tool and then actually select the color you want?

    Yes.
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  • Paul Steunebrink
    [quote="Mitch1" wrote:
    Are you folks seeing the color wheel in the advanced color editor as a black circle, until you choose the 'pick color correction' tool and then actually select the color you want?

    Yes.
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  • Mitch1
    Thanks Paul. 😎 I wonder why it was different in the video.
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  • Arthur Forman
    the color space option become sRGB
    I prefer to convert most of my files to the widest possible color space for final PS tweaking
    is there a work around available or is this something I am doing incorrectly
    could not find any information about this
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  • Paul Steunebrink
    [quote="Artichoke" wrote:
    the color space option become sRGB
    I prefer to convert most of my files to the widest possible color space for final PS tweaking
    is there a work around available or is this something I am doing incorrectly
    could not find any information about this

    I think the bottomline is that you use a 'fixed' color space output profile, like sRGB, AdobeRGB, ProPhotoRGB, but you can't use the embedded camera profile because you tweaked it with the color editor.
    I nifty workaround would be to save the tweaked color editor setting as a profile and use that as the output profile. Not tried this myself at home, but give it a shot.
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