Lightroom v13 update: New "point color" feature is amazing
Oct 12, 2023 10:46:56 #
NickGee
Loc: Pacific Northwest
The new Point Color feature is absolutely incredible. If you (as I do) use the many color processing features of Lightroom in your post-processing, the Point Color feature is a game-changer. The granularity and precision it affords in color management is extraordinary.
A bit of a learning curve (but not as much as the new UI makes it seem), but well worth the effort. A good starting point is this YouTube video by Julieanne Kost (Everything You Need to Know About Point Color in Lightroom Classic): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fzdg2ZXaKGo. Of course there are already many other videos on this feature, and many more to come no doubt.
A bit of a learning curve (but not as much as the new UI makes it seem), but well worth the effort. A good starting point is this YouTube video by Julieanne Kost (Everything You Need to Know About Point Color in Lightroom Classic): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fzdg2ZXaKGo. Of course there are already many other videos on this feature, and many more to come no doubt.
Oct 12, 2023 11:18:06 #
Oct 12, 2023 13:48:47 #
Here is the same thing by YouTuber Blake Rudis, a photographer and color theorist. However, this is from the Adobe Camera Raw perspective rather than Lightroom. I don't think Rudis makes extensive, if any, use of Lightroom. His videos on color and manipulation of color in Photoshop are worth viewing if you're interested in color theory, as I am.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ9O9vZUIqo&ab_channel=f64Academy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ9O9vZUIqo&ab_channel=f64Academy
Oct 13, 2023 15:23:47 #
NickGee wrote:
The new Point Color feature is absolutely incredib... (show quote)
How about AI generative fill - incredible, and all for the same $10 a month.
Oct 13, 2023 15:43:23 #
mwsilvers
Loc: Central New Jersey
NickGee wrote:
The new Point Color feature is absolutely incredib... (show quote)
Very interesting. It seems similar to the global and local adjustment HSL Color Wheels with the global hue selector in PhotoLab 7 Elite. While I think PhotoLab's implementation is a bit more user friendly, it is still a great new Lightroom feature. The ability to apply HSL changes to selected local adjustment masks in PhotoLab means there are no inadvertent color changes to areas which are not masked.
Oct 13, 2023 15:54:29 #
NickGee wrote:
The new Point Color feature is absolutely incredib... (show quote)
I don't use Lightroom but I do use a color point tool in Nikon's Studio NX. I'm sure by your description it's very similar. It's called color control points. Yes it is amazing. I can't remember what company developed the software but it was one of the big players and Nikon bought it
Oct 13, 2023 16:30:33 #
mwsilvers
Loc: Central New Jersey
Drbobcameraguy wrote:
I don't use Lightroom but I do use a color point tool in Nikon's Studio NX. I'm sure by your description it's very similar. It's called color control points. Yes it is amazing. I can't remember what company developed the software but it was one of the big players and Nikon bought it
What you are referring to in Studio NX is the U-Point technology developed in the '90s by Nik Software, the original developer of the Nik Collection. It is very different from what Adobe has done and won't give you anywhere near the same results.
Oct 13, 2023 16:42:40 #
NickGee wrote:
The new Point Color feature is absolutely incredib... (show quote)
I just got a request for a photo that, to me, I could never get quite right. This seemed a perfect shot to 'fix' with Point Color, which I had never used. I watched Julieanne's video and leaped in. It is a wonderful tool and solved the problem I had been having. I sent the client a before and after. I want to see which they pick. Good job Adobe
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