Colour Enhancer in 2019
I have been trying to emulate Blake Rudis in his video where he does Black & White like Ansel Adams
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-rRn7zByW8&t=537s
He is using Photo 10 Effects. He opens up Colour Enhancer, pulls saturation down to show B&W, then chooses individual colours and adjusts the brightness to emphasise individual tones. You can clearly see the brightness adjustment on his B&W image.
When I try this with Colour Enhancer in 2019 and pull saturation all the way down then work on individual colours I have no brightness adjustment. I have no Hue or saturation adjustment either, but do not expect any as I am looking at a B&W image.
Am I looking at another bug or is it just me?
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I just checked it with a landscape photo and you're right, I don't see any change either but I don't know if it's a bug or just the way it works now.
If you want I can ask Whitney in the Facebook group about it or you can send in a trouble ticket and ask tech support.
There aren't a lot of 2019 videos yet, but this one does B/W differently.
https://www.on1.com/blog/the-elegant-bw-recipe/
Edit: I sent Whitney a PM. She may not be around right now so Stay tuned.
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Reduce the saturation to zero and increase the range to 100 on individual colors in Color Range then the brightness slider has an effect on that color.
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Thanks Rick & Tom, will give both a go.
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I got a reply from Whitney, but it didn't answer the question. best bet is to contact support.
Tom, i tried range as you suggest, but with sat all the way down i still don'r see the brightness being applied.
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Notice at the bottom in Color Range. Do this for each color.
It also depends on which color is in your photo.
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Yes Tom, I did that. You're aware that your saturation is still at 0 right? We're taking all the way down to -100.
... just a minute, I need to check that...
Yes, I have that right. Blake is taking the main saturation down to -100 and then adjusting the individual color brightness.
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Yes the top Saturation is still 0.
Down at the bottom in the Color range section is where I made adjustments (for each color).
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Yes, but the video says to take main sat down to -100. That's why there is a question in the first place.
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Indeed. But the video is not using PR2019.
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Yea, we get that. That's why we're asking if it's a bug or just a new way of doing things which would mean the video doesn't work any more.
Hopefully Paul is asking Tech support. I'll check back on this later.
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I think one could follow along with that 2016 video using 2019 settings but the Black and White filter is the way to go.
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Yup, just heard back from Whitney. She says...
if you turn that saturation down...it won't work. So that is different from Suite 10. I would make your photo BW using the BW filter and stack it on top of the color enhancer. Dont make it BW with the color enhancer filter. That should correct it. Or you can just adjust the color sliders within the BW filter which is actually the much better way to accomplish this.
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I use Blake's BW method (modified) in 2019.
I stack the BW filter on top of the color enhancer, turn off the BW and adjust the colors to increase the contrast. After each color adjustment I turn on the BW filter to check results.
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Many thanks Guys, I'm now using the B&W filter and will try Peter's stack of B&W above color enhancer. A lot of this is me gaining an understanding of how the filters really work, and not just following videos in a monkey see-monkey do fashion.
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Hello, perhaps this will help:
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Thanks all, I got it now!
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