I just took some outdoor group photos (not a small group, 80+ people) with strong sidelight (late afternoon sun). Everybody caucasian so similar facial tones. I just pulled a control line down through everyone, put the eye-dropper on a less-lit face side, put the mask in B&W. and fiddled with chroma and luma selection until I had the darker parts of faces - and I could make my adjustments (just a touch plus on exposure).
Isn’t that something that the control line has always been able to do?
Yes but to quote his thread title, he said, " Something I just realized the PL10 control line could do"
Mark
Indeed, the control line can do many things and I propose you play around with it to discover more of its potential. There are a lot of posts about the control line local adjustment. Please also look for those to even go further.
Probably. I’ve had PL since v1, and I’m pretty sure PL1 couldn’t do that; I think it only had a graduated line (but maybe not even that). I do know PL10 can and the CL might have been part of PL7 but I’m not sure, so I’m only talking about the version in front of me.
Yes, the Control Line has existed in this form since PL 7.
You can also combine it with other tools to expand or reduce the selection (use them as additional submasks).
- When using a combination of a control line, control point, and control brush (all located within the same parent mask), their chroma and luma settings are not ‘automatically synchronized’.
–> This can be useful for including areas with different colors and/or brightness values.