Well unfortunately no, that's not what I get. If I now change the Exposure to -2eV, what I would expect to see is the same as in the previous test. As noted above, that applies a mask to the layer using the Channel Selection. If I open the test image again in Edit, and this time use the Select>Channel Selection, set it to RGB Red, click on Set as selection, then apply an Exposure Adjustment layer. If I open that image in Ultimate 2022 Edit, and from the left Filter column select Exposure, set the 'Apply to channel' to Red and reduce the exposure slider setting to -67 (-2.01eV), then as expected I see that the drop in exposure effects the left square most, because it has the greatest Red content, and the other two squares progressively less because of their lower Red content. The test image was saved as a 48bit TIFF with embedded sRGB-IEC61966-2.1 color profile. As you can see, I marked each square with the RGB values. These are colors which contain a mix of the three primary colors Red, Green and Blue. I created 3 colored squares on a transparent background as per the screen shot below. I think that resolves the issue I mentioned about the video.

Note that the selection disappears as noted, BUT a mask was applied to the Adjustment Layer.Yes, thank you, I had completely overlooked that if a selection is active when adding an adjustment layer, the selection will be added to the mask. Perhaps someone can show me a workable real world example of the benefits of this tool. A check of the Select menu shows Deselect is now also greyed out, which sort of confirms the 'red channel selection' is no longer actually active, and that suggests the clarity adjustment would then apply to all channels in the selected layer. More over, when I try to duplicate his steps, as soon as I select the clarity adjustment from the tools in the layer panel, the active selection overlay disappears. Copying the green channel into the red channel was part of an old but very effective Photoshop 'red eye removal' technique, and one I still use in Affinity Photo.ĪCDSee's Adam very briefly touched on it in his video, using it in conjunction with a Clarity Adjustment, but didn't explain why one would want to apply clarity to only the red channel, and the video didn't really show the effect of the change. I had hoped that the new Channel Select feature in Ultimate 2022 would at last mean I didn't have to switch to Affinity photo as an external editor each time I wanted to be able to do any color channel manipulation, but now having spent some time.with the new feature I am actually at somewhat of a loss to find a real world application for it.įor instance I have not found a way using it to copy one color channel into another.

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