Lightroom: luminosity only tone curve

Hi,
there's one thing I miss in LR, that is the option to let a tone curve affect the luminosity only, so that I can add contrast without adding saturation. Quite often I find the result of a correction to be oversaturated. In PS that's done easily by changing the blending mode. Would be nice to have that in LR too.
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Henrik

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lee_jay_fingersh

946 Messages

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13.8K Points

9 years ago

The LR tone curve is largely Luminosity only already (not precisely, but close).

henrik_zawischa

112 Messages

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1.6K Points

9 years ago

How come the colours get perceivably more intense than when I do the same with a curve in PS set to luminosity blending? How much is "largely"?

dnicolaescu

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677 Messages

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8.7K Points

9 years ago

I think, the curves are luminosity+some saturation. Almost no hue shift.

It's actually quite easy to emulate a luminance-only curve by dropping both saturation and vibrance a bit. Looks quite close to me.

henrik_zawischa

112 Messages

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1.6K Points

9 years ago

Yeah, that's what I usually do as well. Thought it would be nice to have some enhanced contol of this, but I admit it's probably not the most needed top-of-the list feature.

christiaan_botha_7852097

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182 Points

5 years ago

Please add it, would greatly increase flexibility in skin tone editing :)

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