Selecting a Color Range

[vciro]

In Photoshop, there is a SELECT/COLOR RANGE tool that allows the selection of Highlights, Shadows, etc. Is there anything comparable in PSP X6? This would be very useful when trying to adjust for example blown highlights.

Thanks,
Vinny

[LeviFiction]

I don't know about comparable, but yes there is a select color range command. In PSP it's a selection modifier.

First Use Ctrl + A to select the whole image. Then under the Selections menu go Selections -> Modify -> Select Color Range

This command lets you pick a single color, then you can adjust the tolerance and softness of the selection based on that single color. You can either add or remove it.

So you would have to do it one color at a time. Shadows and Midtones and Highlights....unless you're working on a black and white image, you'd probably have to use a different method.

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This is all speculation from here, but it might be possible to do this the long way.

If you create a B&W version of the image, or if you just create a luminance mask, you could manipulate the resulting greyscale image to show only the shadows, only the highlights, and only the midtones....though I'm not sure how.

I know, it's a lot of work. But if it worked, it would be possible to create a script that did it quickly.

But again, I'm just speculating here.

[dwalby2]

the previous post was close, but maybe not quite the full answer to your question.

1. selections/ select all
2. selections/ modify/ select color range
3. then use the eyedropper to select a color, adjust the controls for the tolerance/softness, choose 'subtract color range', click OK
4. selections/invert

you now have the selection of the color range from step 3. unfortunately though you don't see your selection in step 3 because everything is selected and for whatever reason it doesn't actually remove the selection you chose to 'subtract' in the display during step 3. so its a little difficult to dial in exactly. After inverting it is clearly visible where your selection is, and you can then promote that to a layer if desired.

[vciro]

Dear LeviFiction and dwalby2,

Fantastic! Many thanks for your help. This will do it.

Vinny