You can then click on an image and drag up or down with the mouse to adjust the colors targeted by the cursor. Select Hue, Saturation, or Luminance and click the Target Adjustment tool button to activate it. They are the ones that more usefully match the colors that people most often want to adjust.Īs with the Tone Curve panel, the HSL controls can be applied using a Target Adjustment mode. The colors chosen here provide a more practical range of color hues to work with. Mark Hamburg and Thomas Knoll decided here to break with the traditional additive and subtractive primary color slider controls. Also, clicking on the Hue, Saturation, or Luminance buttons after you have clicked to select one of these modes toggles showing the controls for those parameters or showing All sliders. If you click the All button, the panel expands to give you access to all the sliders at once. The sliders in the Luminance section can be used to darken or lighten colors in the selected color ranges, and do so in a way that manages to preserve the hue and saturation. This means that as you increase the saturation, lower saturated pixel values are increased relative to the already higher saturated pixel values in an image. The Saturation slider controls apply a nonlinear saturation-type adjustment (similar to what the Vibrance slider does). Dragging a slider to the right increases the saturation, while dragging to the left decreases the saturation to the point where if all the Saturation sliders were dragged to the left, you could convert the whole of the image to black and white. The sliders in the Saturation section control the color saturation. For example, if you adjust the Green Hue slider, dragging to the right makes the greens more cyan, while dragging to the left makes the greens more yellow.
The sliders in the Hue section control the hue color balance and these allow you to make subtle (or not so subtle) hue color shifts in each of the eight color band ranges. The B&W section is for carrying out monochrome conversions, which I’ll discuss separately in the following chapter.įigure 4.58 The HSL / Color / Grayscale panel with the Color mode selected.
The Color section of this panel (see Figure 4.58) provides a more simplified version of the HSL controls with button selectors at the top for choosing the desired color band to edit, with Hue, Saturation, and Luminance sliders below. Essentially, you have three color adjustment sections (with a Target Adjustment tool mode for each) that allow you to control the Hue, Saturation, and Luminance over eight color band ranges. It should be considered a color adjustment tool for those situations where you need to target specific colors in order to fine-tune the color adjustments. The HSL component (see Figure 4.57) is kind of equivalent to the Hue/Saturation dialog found in Photoshop, except in Lightroom you can apply these types of adjustments to raw photos as well as rendered images. The HSL / Color / B&W panel is an all-in-one panel for making fine-tuned color adjustments and black-and-white conversions.