Education | Adjust Lighting and Balance Color

I set my (Sony & Oly, oops OM System - did so for my Canon cams in the past too) cameras to Adobe RGB capture (vs their option for sRGB - it’s one of two). I shoot in both jpg and Raw simultaneously. I also have Ps set to process in Adobe RGB 1998 as one of my prefs.

I know a heart does it, but, it doesn’t quite give the same emphasis.

I came here to say exactly this. I’d love to be able to apply these colour and/or lighting adjustments to just my subject. I realize doing that with lighting might look weird most of the time, but colour for sure could be useful (and lighting would be in this case where I have a flash lit subject so the rest of the picture is basically black)

They don’t capture in AdobeRGB or sRGB, RAW images do not have a color space.

My understanding was that I’m setting a tag in camera that tells my Ps (since that’s my weapon of choice for photo processing) how to recognize the way I want my images processed. And, as noted above, I set my Ps colorspace to work with Adobe RGB (1998).

I’ll have to see if the article you linked to mentions anything about Raw images being 16-bit RGB. Now I’m curious…

I thought only (primarily?) commercial printers use CMYK.

Yes and nothing can display CIELAB as that is what the human eye can see. Cameras collect color information in 14 bit but not in a color space.

OMG. Good thing this came up. I just updated to Ps 2024 Monday & nearly forgot to adjust my colorspace settings (for some reason they don’t carry that setting/preference forward with annual updates & set the default to sRGB…). Now it’s fixed.

That setting is only applied to JPEGs (including the image on the back of your camera). As Don has already explained, raw files aren’t image files and as such don’t have a colour space until one is allocated in post processing.

Thx! But I do process some JPGs, depending on what I plan to use them for.

I don’t solely work with Raw images in ACR.

But I do shoot jpg/Raw together! :slightly_smiling_face:

I’m working with JPGs of sort-of concerts - folk-singers in a poorly lit club room, mixture of tungsten (still!) and halogen (still!). I’m having some success with the new lighting and colour balance features but find them both to be too aggressive, especially lighting. If I want to retain the ‘moody’ ambience of the room but not have it look dingy then I have to try different levels for lighting, from 2 to 10, typically. Small changes here seem to make a surprising difference.

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Lighting seems to be consistently too bright. Does a nice job when scaled back from 25 to 12.

Balance Color tends to be a bit skewed toward greens. Not bad, but it is consistent.

Running on a NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 ti, confirmed latest drivers.

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This is my issue as well - Perhaps it is an option to lock noise reduction and sharpening so that when we get to lighting/color, the model can just focus on the changes? I find it very odd that adjusting the opacity requires re-analysis sharpness or noise.

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For the “Balancing Color” feature please add a slider for “Tint” (Magenta <> Green) - It would make it much more fully usable.
Otherwise they are very good!

If that’s done, then isn’t a Cyan/Red slider needed too?

And, Point Color? :wink:

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Love the color enhancement! Would appreciate some form of manual control over shadows/highlights…In a specific image of a hamburger I was using for testing, the colors in the foreground became greatly improved. However, the black object in the background became more of a red-dark gray, rather than actual black. Additionally, the white lines on the object also became more pinkish, rather than white or neutral gray.

Why must it go through Removing Blur and Sharpen processes. If the need for that can be addressed then this would be a useful tool.

Not sure of your question.

It’s a denoising, sharpening, scaling product. With bonus features. It’s like friends, with benefits.

Perhaps I should have been more explicit.

My photograph had already been through the denoising and sharpening process when, as an after thought, I wanted to see what more could be achieved by using the beta products within the program.

I, therefore, thought it unnecessary for the program to go through the denoising and sharpening process again, further adding to the time taken to see the results.

It was really a question aimed more at the Topaz programmers in the hope that they may consider the possibility of having the beta products acting as separate entities within Photo AI.

I hope that makes my intent clearer.

Dave

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I love the app! You should add Saturation control to the Color Balancing control, so we can reduce color or even make it black and white. Contrast control would also be great.

Wish the color slider would indicate color temperature. Likewise the lighting slider should say brighter, darker on the appropriate ends.