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- Hi, and welcome.

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My name's Julieanne Kost

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and on today's episode[br]of The Complete Picture,

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we're gonna take a look at how you

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can make some selective color[br]adjustments using Lightroom.

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Now, I think we probably all know

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that you can make more global adjustments

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using things like the[br]Temperature or the Tint sliders

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and certainly in the Basic[br]panel we can come down

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under presence and change[br]Vibrance and Saturation

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but that's gonna change all of

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the colors in the image at one time.

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So if we wanna have a[br]little bit more control

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we need to take a look[br]at the Hue, Saturation,

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and Luminance area of Lightroom.

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Now, let's just start with the Saturation.

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If I simply wanted to[br]de-saturate this entire image

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I could use, for example, the V key

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if I wanted to go all the[br]way to black and white.

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But I actually want to[br]leave the image in color

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'cause that's gonna enable[br]me to do a few more things.

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So I'll just take down the saturation

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by clicking here on each[br]one of the color sliders.

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So, obviously if I did this often

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what I'd wanna do is I'd wanna go ahead

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and create a preset for that and, in fact,

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there's a preset that you can download

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from my blog if you want to,

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that simply de-saturates everything.

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But it's really easy,[br]you would just set all

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of the sliders up if you[br]wanna create your own

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and then click on the plus icon

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and save out the saturation[br]color adjustments right here.

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And save that as your preset.

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Alright, so that's one way[br]to de-saturate an image

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but obviously because I can go into

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each one of these color ranges[br]I have a lot more control.

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So say, for example, I[br]might not want to have

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this top red area as[br]de-saturated as it is right now.

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Well, if we grab the[br]targeted adjustment tool

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by clicking on it and then click

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in that color that we want to manipulate,

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if we drag up it would[br]increase the saturation

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and if we click and drag down,[br]it decreases the saturation.

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So it might be a little[br]confusing because when you click,

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Lightroom hides the cursor[br]but I'm actually clicking

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and dragging up and you can see

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the sliders going to the right.

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If I click and drag down the[br]sliders move to the left.

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And you'll also notice that[br]it's not just the red slider

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that's moving because where[br]I clicked in this image

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that color is made up[br]of both red and orange

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so Lightroom goes ahead and moves both

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the red and orange slider[br]in the correct relationship

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to how much color is underneath[br]the point where I clicked.

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So we can go ahead and do that[br]for this blue area, as well.

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Again, clicking and dragging[br]up would add saturation,

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click and drag down to[br]decrease the saturation.

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So it's kind of an easy[br]way to balance things out.

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Then I could also go under[br]the Hue, for example,

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if I wanted to change the color.

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Maybe I don't quite like[br]that blue so, again,

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clicking and dragging up[br]in that area will shift

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the blues and in this case[br]a little bit of the aqua

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more towards the purple colors.

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Clicking and dragging down would

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bring them back towards the aqua.

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So, again, all I'm[br]trying to do is just get

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two colors that match a[br]little bit better here.

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Alright, now you might also[br]wanna take this one step further

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and go and select your adjustment brush.

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Because I do have a lot[br]of blue that's reflecting

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up here in this giant container.

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And so what I'll do is I'll[br]grab my adjustment brush

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and just bring down the saturation here.

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And we can go ahead and bring it down

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to -100 and now you can[br]see when I paint in here

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I can selectively change the color here

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because I'm just painting out 100%.

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If you tap the A key, that[br]would give you the auto-mask

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right down here, that toggles it on.

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So we don't have to be quite as careful

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where I paint because[br]Lightroom's gonna see the line

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between this container here[br]and the little building

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and it won't jump over to[br]de-saturate that orange color.

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Alright, let's move to the[br]next image for one moment

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'cause I also wanna show maybe

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a little bit of a different use of this.

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Now I will start here with the Basic panel

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because I do want to change[br]the overall color balance.

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So, again, that's a global[br]change so in that case,

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I would go ahead and use my[br]Temperature or my Tint slider.

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I just want that background[br]a little bit more blue.

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Now, what if we wanted to match[br]the bicycle with the door?

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Well, then I need to[br]scoot down again to HSL.

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And, by the way, HSL and[br]Color, these two options...

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The functionality is almost identical.

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Let me just show you the difference.

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The main difference is that HSL,

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the Hue, Saturation, and Luminosity area

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that has the targeted[br]adjustment tool which

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I use all the time[br]instead of trying to guess

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what color this is, you[br]know, is it more orange

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or does it have more yellow or red in it?

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I'll use the targeted adjustment

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tool to make my adjustments.

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If we scoot over to the Color area,

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we don't have that[br]targeted adjustment tool.

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And the reason that we[br]have them both though

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is they're just a different[br]way of accessing color.

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See, when I'm in HSL[br]I've got Hue, Saturation,

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and Luminosity so I can[br]click on any of these

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and then I get all of the[br]different color ranges.

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When we scoot over to[br]color, basically I can click

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on any color and then quickly access

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Hue, Saturation, and Luminosity.

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So it's just a different[br]way of laying it out.

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If you click on HSL and then[br]you actually click on All

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we can see HSL, Hue,[br]Saturation, and Luminosity

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for each color range so that[br]might be an option as well.

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When I'm on a smaller monitor though,

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I like to pick just Hue,[br]Saturation or Luminosity.

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Okay, so if I want to make the bike

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and the door the same color, again,

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I'll pick up my targeted adjustment tool

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and I'll be sure that I've[br]got my option here set to Hue

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and then you can click[br]and drag on that orange

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and you'll notice that by[br]clicking and dragging up,

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I'm shifting those reds and oranges

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more towards the yellow hues.

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Now that's a little bit too[br]far so I'm gonna back off.

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I'm also going to[br]de-saturate that a little.

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So I'll click and just drag[br]down a little on my saturation.

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Then I'll go back to Hue[br]and I'm gonna pick up

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on the yellow door and I'm gonna go ahead

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and start dragging that[br]down to bring those values,

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the orange and yellow,

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closer to the orange value in the bike.

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So you can see, you can[br]make a lot of color changes.

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And if you think about it,

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we could actually take[br]this to black and white

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as well and use the Black[br]& White options to change

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the color ranges, how that[br]converts to black and white.

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But now I wanna keep this in color

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and I just wanna show you one other way

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because you might be thinking,

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"Well, maybe you didn't[br]wanna bring those two colors

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"closer together, maybe you wanted to have

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"the bike change to a different color."

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You'll notice that when I click[br]and drag to change the hue,

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we really can't get a green bicycle.

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If you wanted to do that, then we need

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to switch over to our adjustment brush.

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I'm gonna bring the[br]saturation all the way down.

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So I'm actually removing the saturation.

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And then I'm going to click in[br]this color swatch right here,

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and we can go ahead[br]and pick a green color.

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So now when we paint, and I'll just get

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a little bit smaller[br]of a paint brush here,

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you can see that what's happening is

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I've got auto-mask turned on[br]so Lightroom is automatically

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creating a mask so that I don't[br]go over into the blue area.

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And the adjustment brush[br]is basically taking out

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all of the saturation wherever I paint

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and then overlaying the[br]green color that I selected.

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And if I paint too far all I need

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to do is hold down the Option key

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and then we can go ahead and back that out

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'cause I didn't mean to[br]paint that in the tire there.

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And then, again, I can get a smaller brush

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just using the left bracket key

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and go in and refine this and[br]make any other adjustments.

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Again, I went a little[br]too far there so, again,

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hold down the option key[br]and just paint that out.

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What the Option key or[br]the Alt Key on Windows

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does is it basically just changes

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from your brush to the eraser tool.

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So that's a way that you would go in

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and actually hand color an image.

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Just remember, if you are going

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to hand color an image[br]don't take it to grayscale,

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don't tap the V key and go to grayscale,

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use the Hue, Saturation, and[br]Luminosity area down here

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and just remove all of the saturation.

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Otherwise you're not going to[br]be able to paint in the image

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because you told Lightroom[br]to take it to grayscale.

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So, using a combination of[br]Hue, Saturation, and Luminosity

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as well as the adjustment[br]brush should allow you

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to make all of the selective color changes

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that you need in Lightroom.

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My name's Julieanne Kost,[br]thanks for watching.

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