For what it's worth, you can do the same thing in Adobe Camera Raw (ACR), and you can use ACR even if your image is a JPG, not RAW. The converter has a full suite of HSL adjustments on sliders, same as Lightroom; you can adjust saturation, hue, and luminance on red, orange, yellow, green, aqua, blue, purple, and magenta. This is basic-legal, and makes surprisingly sophisticated adjustments.
For those who use Topaz Detail, there's a set of tone sliders that can do this as well, very quickly and intuitively.
In straight Photoshop or Elements alone, try the (poorly named) Selective Color adjustment, which allows you to dial up changes in brightness and color balance in each of these channels independently. Despite its name, this tool involves no selections and is basic-legal.
Bottom line: whatever editing program you use, aside from bare-bones basic editors, will have some sort of tool that allows you to adjust the relative brightness of a range of colors, and all of these tools will be basic-legal as long as you don't make any actual, physical selections of areas of the image while working.
For what it's worth, you can do the same thing in Adobe Camera Raw (ACR), and you can use ACR even if your image is a JPG, not RAW. The converter has a full suite of HSL adjustments on sliders, same as Lightroom; you can adjust saturation, hue, and luminance on red, orange, yellow, green, aqua, blue, purple, and magenta. This is basic-legal, and makes surprisingly sophisticated adjustments.
For those who use Topaz Detail, there's a set of tone sliders that can do this as well, very quickly and intuitively.
In straight Photoshop or Elements alone, try the (poorly named) Selective Color adjustment, which allows you to dial up changes in brightness and color balance in each of these channels independently. Despite its name, this tool involves no selections and is basic-legal.
Bottom line: whatever editing program you use, aside from bare-bones basic editors, will have some sort of tool that allows you to adjust the relative brightness of a range of colors, and all of these tools will be basic-legal as long as you don't make any actual, physical selections of areas of the image while working.
R.
Just a quick question - I know vignettes are not allowed in basic... but in Camera Raw for PS you can add a vignette and I thought all adjustments in Camera Raw were allowed?
For what it's worth, you can do the same thing in Adobe Camera Raw (ACR), and you can use ACR even if your image is a JPG, not RAW. The converter has a full suite of HSL adjustments on sliders, same as Lightroom; you can adjust saturation, hue, and luminance on red, orange, yellow, green, aqua, blue, purple, and magenta. This is basic-legal, and makes surprisingly sophisticated adjustments.
For those who use Topaz Detail, there's a set of tone sliders that can do this as well, very quickly and intuitively.
In straight Photoshop or Elements alone, try the (poorly named) Selective Color adjustment, which allows you to dial up changes in brightness and color balance in each of these channels independently. Despite its name, this tool involves no selections and is basic-legal.
Bottom line: whatever editing program you use, aside from bare-bones basic editors, will have some sort of tool that allows you to adjust the relative brightness of a range of colors, and all of these tools will be basic-legal as long as you don't make any actual, physical selections of areas of the image while working.
R.
Lightroom is essentially an ACR front-end anyway (with storage of settings to allow you to re-edit without destroying the original. It will do JPG as well.
