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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
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
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
Temperature or the Tint sliders

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and certainly in the Basic
panel we can come down

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under presence and change
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
little bit more control

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we need to take a look
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
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
way to black and white.

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But I actually want to
leave the image in color

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'cause that's gonna enable
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
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,
you would just set all

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of the sliders up if you
wanna create your own

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and then click on the plus icon

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and save out the saturation
color adjustments right here.

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And save that as your preset.

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Alright, so that's one way
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
I have a lot more control.

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So say, for example, I
might not want to have

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

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Well, if we grab the
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
increase the saturation

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

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

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Lightroom hides the cursor
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
sliders move to the left.

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

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that's moving because where
I clicked in this image

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that color is made up
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
in the correct relationship

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

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

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Again, clicking and dragging
up would add saturation,

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click and drag down to
decrease the saturation.

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

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Then I could also go under
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
that blue so, again,

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clicking and dragging up
in that area will shift

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the blues and in this case
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
trying to do is just get

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two colors that match a
little bit better here.

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Alright, now you might also
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
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
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
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
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
Lightroom's gonna see the line

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between this container here
and the little building

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

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Alright, let's move to the
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
the overall color balance.

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

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

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I just want that background
a little bit more blue.

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

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Well, then I need to
scoot down again to HSL.

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And, by the way, HSL and
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
adjustment tool which

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I use all the time
instead of trying to guess

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what color this is, you
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
targeted adjustment tool.

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And the reason that we
have them both though

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

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

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and Luminosity so I can
click on any of these

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and then I get all of the
different color ranges.

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When we scoot over to
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
way of laying it out.

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If you click on HSL and then
you actually click on All

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we can see HSL, Hue,
Saturation, and Luminosity

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for each color range so that
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,
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
got my option here set to Hue

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and then you can click
and drag on that orange

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and you'll notice that by
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
far so I'm gonna back off.

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

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So I'll click and just drag
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Then I'll go back to Hue
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on the yellow door and I'm gonna go ahead

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and start dragging that
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
make a lot of color changes.

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And if you think about it,

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we could actually take
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as well and use the Black
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the color ranges, how that
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
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
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
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
this color swatch right here,

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and we can go ahead
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
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
so Lightroom is automatically

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

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And the adjustment brush
is basically taking out

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all of the saturation wherever I paint

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and then overlaying the
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
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
make any other adjustments.

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Again, I went a little
too far there so, again,

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hold down the option key
and just paint that out.

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What the Option key or
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
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
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
be able to paint in the image

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because you told Lightroom
to take it to grayscale.

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So, using a combination of
Hue, Saturation, and Luminosity

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as well as the adjustment
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,
thanks for watching.

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