Can Lightroom or Camera Raw brush HSL adjustments onto specific areas?
Asked 1/14/2016
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I can use the Adjustment Brush in Lightroom and Adobe Camera Raw for controls like temperature, tint, and exposure, but I don’t see a way to brush local HSL changes onto only part of an image. Is there any way to apply hue, saturation, or luminance adjustments selectively in Lightroom/Camera Raw? If not, what’s the best workaround for making local luminance or color changes in specific areas?
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As far as I know, the only values that can be brushed are the ones shown in the brush. I would guess that Adobe feels the others are out of the scope of lightroom, which is "only" a image editing tool, not an image creating tool like photoshop. So maybe you'd need photoshop and use the RAW file from there.
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In Lightroom and Camera Raw, local brush adjustments are generally limited to the controls shown in the brush panel, so direct brushed HSL adjustments are not available there.
If you need selective hue, saturation, or luminance changes, the usual workaround is to do the raw edit globally first, then create alternate versions of the image with different global settings for the areas you want to change. After that, combine those versions in Photoshop using layers and masks so each adjustment only affects the intended area.
So, for local HSL-style edits, Photoshop is the better tool. Lightroom/Camera Raw can handle many local tonal and color adjustments, but not full local HSL control in the same way.
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