Exposure x chasinglightsactions5/4/2023 Now I can paint freehand over the skylight to mask out the color adjustment and restore the original color – the masked areas appear as black on the mask thumbnail in the Layers panel. This opens the mask options, where I select the Eraser – I’ll also adjust the brush settings to make the brush medium sized and quite soft. First, I click on the masking brush tool at the top of the Tools panel. That’s actually worked rather well and the whole interior now looks a lot more neutral – but this adjustment has knocked some of the color out of that beautiful stained glass roof panel. Now, if I click and drag downwards on an intense yellow area of the scene, it reduces the saturation for that specific color range. It lets you adjust individual color ranges – and in this case I select the Saturation tab in the Detailed Adjustments panel, and then click on the small direct adjustment gadget just to the right of the ‘Luminance’ label. The Color panel does something a white balance adjustment can’t. It’s a quirk of Exposure X that the Color adjustment won’t take account of the changed white balance setting if I work on the original layer. Before I do this, though, I create a new Adjustment Layer. Add a layer for the color correctionĮven with the white balance ‘corrected’ as best it can be (none of the other areas in this picture offered a better target for the eyedropper), the picture still has a strong yellow cast, so I’m going to try to fix this by swapping to the Color panel. I’ve chosen an area of tiling on the wall, still showing wit the strong blue/purple cast under the eyedropper, but already Exposure X is showing how the image will look if I click on this (which I do). Unusually, Exposure X shows a preview of the correction even before you click. With the white balance eyedropper selected you can move it around the image as you choose a neutral area to click on. The Exposure X Basic panel shows the temperature and tint values embedded in the RAW file, but we can change these – and in this case, the white balance eyedropper looks the best solution. White balance adjustments are a lot more successful if you start with a RAW file, because these retain the full color information captured by the camera sensor. Start with the white balance You can click on any of these screenshots to see a larger version. ![]() ![]() The strong blue/purple lighting in the original is part of the hotel’s color scheme, but what if we were asked to produce a ’neutral’ version? Is it even possible with a color cast this extreme? 1. We’ll use this interior shot of a boutique hotel as an example because it has some very serious color issues caused my the mixed lighting. White balance and color corrections are basic image adjustments you’d expect to find in any photo-editing application, so let’s see how they are applied in Exposure X.
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