Jun 17 2008
Draining Color with Lightroom
In the previous post I referenced a preset created for draining all colors except red.
It’s actually easier than you might think.
Here are two images of butterflies where I drained out most of the color.
Technique
In the Lightroom Develop module -
- Perform your desired tonal adjustments
- In the HSL/Color/Grey scale panel, select Color
- Drop all the saturation levels to zero except for the color(s) you want remaining. (you may also adjust the luminance and hue as desired)
In the top example I left Orange and Magenta and in the next image I left only Orange.
One issue I did run into was what to do with the extraneous hints of color away from your focus point ?
This would be easy to correct in Photoshop by making selections around the unwanted items and then to desaturate these items. Not as easy a task in Lightroom, until Lightroom 2.0 anyways, the only option is to clone out these areas, resulting in the image below.
Thanks !
