Color Mask & Tone Compression Improvements

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Suggestion

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Current Behaviour

Currently, the color mask only seems to affect the color transforms from the first panel (Spectrum).

Additionally, Tone Compression and Color Mask cancel each other out. In other words, when I set tone compression, and then isolate with a mask, the tone compression is masked out as well.

Expected Behaviour

It would be more useful if we could isolate all color transforms (Spectrum, Density, Luminance) with the color range mask.

Tone Compression and Color Mask should be mutually exclusive. Practically, this would enable us to remove the global color grade from skin tones, while compressing only skin colors.

a year ago

monokee

~The color mask ONLY affects the tools in the Spectrum Panel. Density and brightness adjustments are already localized via curves and further keying would easily introduce discontinuities in the gamut which should be avoided.
This is why the slider is labeled "Isolate Spectrum"
Here's the user guide: https://www.color.io/user-guide/color-masks-and-tone-compression~ See below for updates

a year ago (edited)

monokee

The Color Range Mask and tone compression have been updated for the next major version of Color.io:

The Color Range Mask now isolates ALL color adjustments (not just Spectrum).
Tone Compression has gotten a major overhaul to produce much more smooth and natural results.
Both sliders are now also mutually exclusive to better support the practical use case mentioned here and elsewhere.

a year ago (edited)

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