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Lightroom Mobile
The video shows how Lightroom Mobile's Mix (HSL) panel gives full creative control over individual colors in a photo — not just enhancing existing colors but changing them into entirely different colors — via Hue, Saturation, and Luminance sliders, a targeted eyedropper-style selection tool, and non-destructive Versions to save and compare multiple edits.
Tapping 'Mix' inside the Color tab unlocks per-color editing, with separate color icons (red, blue, purple, magenta, green, etc.) each offering Hue, Saturation, and Luminance sliders.
On the red flowerpot, luminance is raised to brighten it, saturation raised to about 60, and hue dragged left toward magenta (about 30) to make it 'pop out.'
On the blue flowerpot, luminance is dragged to 100 and saturation to about 60 to make it stand out.
For the purple flowerpot, clicking the 'purple' color band barely changes anything because it isn't targeting the right underlying color; switching to the 'magenta' band and raising its luminance to 100 and saturation to about 60 is what actually affects that pot.
Adjusting one color can visibly affect other areas of the photo that share a similar color tone; the presenter says a later video will show how to fix this.
The 'Versions' panel (swipe to it at the bottom) lets you stamp the current edit into a named or unnamed snapshot via 'Create Version,' switch between versions by tapping 'Apply,' and always get back to the untouched original.
Versions persist even after closing Lightroom Mobile or restarting the phone.
A separate icon in the top-middle of the Mix panel is a target adjustment (eyedropper-style) tool: tapping it grays out the color list and lets you tap-and-drag directly on the photo to select the underlying color(s) at that point.
Most colors in a photo aren't a single pure color — e.g. yellow can carry an orange or green cast — so the target tool can intelligently grab more than one color channel at once for fine-tuned adjustment.
Dragging up on a yellow wall while using the target tool converts it to green by shifting the underlying yellow's hue.
Using the target tool on the resulting green wall fails to isolate it cleanly because the tool also detects a yellowish hue within it and adjusts the separate yellow wall too; the presenter undoes this.
Switching instead to directly clicking the single 'green' color swatch isolates adjustments to just that color band, avoiding the cross-contamination the target tool caused.
Dragging that isolated green hue slider all the way left converts the green wall to yellow, then luminance is raised to about 50 to match the desired brightness.
Two named versions ('Green Wall' and 'Yellow Wall') are saved alongside the original and the earlier vibrant edit, giving four selectable versions of the same photo.
Mix panel (HSL tool) — The tab inside Lightroom Mobile's Color panel that unlocks per-color Hue, Saturation, and Luminance adjustments targeted at specific colors in a photo. Apply: Open the Color tab and tap 'Mix' to reveal individual color-channel icons (red, blue, purple, magenta, green, etc.), then select a channel to adjust just that color.
Hue slider — One of the three Mix controls that shifts a selected color's position along the color wheel toward an adjacent color. Apply: With a color channel selected, drag the hue slider left or right — e.g. dragging red toward magenta, or dragging a selected yellow all the way up to turn a wall green.
Saturation slider — The Mix control that increases or decreases how intense/vivid a selected color appears. Apply: Drag the saturation slider right (e.g. to around 60) on a selected color, such as a red or blue flowerpot, to make it more vivid without affecting other colors.
Luminance slider — The Mix control that adjusts the brightness of a selected color specifically. Apply: Drag the luminance slider right (e.g. to 100) on a selected color, such as a blue flowerpot, to brighten just that color and make it stand out.
Target adjustment tool (eyedropper icon) — The icon at the top-middle of the Mix panel that lets you tap-and-drag directly on the photo to select whichever underlying color(s) are present at that point, including secondary hues. Apply: Tap the icon (colors gray out), then tap-and-hold on a spot in the photo — e.g. a yellow wall with an orange or green cast — and drag up or down to adjust the hue/saturation/luminance of all detected underlying colors at once.
Direct color-swatch selection — The alternative to the target tool: tapping one specific named color icon in the Mix panel to isolate adjustments to only that narrow color band. Apply: Use this when the target tool grabs unwanted adjacent hues (e.g. it also shifted a separate yellow wall while trying to isolate a green one) — click the single color swatch (e.g. 'green') directly instead, then adjust its hue/saturation/luminance without affecting other tones.
Versions — A Lightroom Mobile feature that stamps the current full set of edit settings into a named or unnamed, non-destructive snapshot that can always be revisited, alongside the untouched original. Apply: Swipe the bottom toolbar to 'Versions,' tap 'Create Version,' optionally name it (e.g. 'Green Wall,' 'Yellow Wall'), tap 'Create,' then tap any saved version and 'Apply' to jump between them — they're retained even after closing the app or restarting the phone.
The target/eyedropper tool and direct color-swatch selection are complementary, not interchangeable: the target tool is useful precisely because it can grab multiple underlying hues from one tap-drag (helpful for colors with mixed casts), but that same behavior becomes a liability when you want to isolate a single color band, in which case clicking the specific swatch is the more precise method.
Color adjustments in the Mix panel aren't strictly confined to the clicked region of a photo — they apply to 'all the colors that have a similar color tone in the entirety of the photo,' so a fix aimed at one object can spill into unrelated areas sharing that tone.
Versions function less like simple undo/redo and more like lightweight non-destructive branches: each one freezes the full edit state, always with a guaranteed path back to the pristine original, letting a single photo be developed into several distinct creative directions in parallel.
Fully desaturated or muted colors in a photo may not respond to adjustments on the color band you'd intuitively expect (e.g. adjusting 'purple' barely moved the purple-looking pot); the actual controlling channel can be a neighboring one (magenta), which the presenter discovers only by testing.
«I want to show you how I take absolute creative control with the use of color inside of Lightroom Mobile.»
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«Now, if I click on Mix, what that does is unlock the creative potential to target the specific colors inside of our photos.»
— 00:47
«Most colors in your photo isn't just one specific color.»
— 04:48
«This is what I mean by taking absolute creative control with the colors in our photo.»
— 05:33
«It doesn't work for us. We want to make a targeted selection just of that green wall.»
— 06:41
«That's the power of harnessing Lightroom to take creative control of the colors in our photos to create something completely unique.»
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Reception
Largely positive reception with viewers appreciating the tutorial content, offset by concerns about video pacing and Adobe's subscription model.
A dense, hands-on walkthrough of Lightroom Mobile's Mix (HSL) panel that runs through several real edits and two distinct color-selection methods in quick succession, making it most useful to viewers already comfortable navigating the app rather than complete beginners.
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