[Digikam-users] Can't reduce saturation of only 'Red'.

[Gilles Caulier]

Open a new file in bugzilla about this wish...

Gilles Caulier

2010/9/7 jag59 <jldeshpande at gmail.com>:
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> jag59 wrote:
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>> In editor, with Color> Hue/Saturation/Lightness>Channel Red (in the
>> drop-down list), I can not reduce saturation of only 'Red' channel.This
>> reduces saturation of all channels in spite of selecting either Luminosity
>> or Red or Green or Blue in the drop-down list.
>> My Nikon D40 gives much saturated (red) skin in portrait mode.Is there any
>> way to achieve this?
>> Reducing level of red is not useful as we need to reduce only saturated
>> reds, not all reds in the image.
>> Reducing 'Temperature' in 'White Balance' overexposes the image,but seems
>> this is the only solution presently.
>> In many tools,selecting one among Luminosity,Red,Green or Blue from the
>> drop-down menu does not make any difference besides showing graph for that
>> color.
>>
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> At last I found  the solution,though not direct but can say a workaround.
> In Color>Hue/Saturation/Lightness......reduce saturation to @ (-)40  and
> then increase vibrance to 70.This attends the over saturated skin tones
> without affecting other colors.
> This  gives almost same results which I get in GIMP by selecting 'red
> instead of default master' in the 'hue-saturation tool' and reducing it's
> saturation.
>
> Hope in future version the sliders in H/S/L tool will work only on selected
> channel.
>
> Regards.
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