HSL Adjustment targeting?

[Fixx]

Is there a way to target HSL adjustment more finely? Now it seems to target only primary colours and I cannot find a way to adjust target colour. In Photoshop you can alter the target area easily by moving target handles and even adjust the falloff by splitting them.

 

[HVDB Photography]

Not (yet) I'm afraid.

Positioning the cursor in the shift value box, one can increase/decrease by 0.1 pressing CTRL + scrolling with the mouse wheel or type in the value manually. But that you already figured out I think.

One can play around with the Blend Ranges (the gear in the bottom right corner)
That's about it at this stage.
 

[Fixx]

Doh... I was looking for a simple way to remove skin blotches. Did Photoshop this time (and got quite unnatural result anyway :-D.

[HVDB Photography]

10 hours ago, Fixx said:

Doh... I was looking for a simple way to remove skin blotches. Did Photoshop this time (and got quite unnatural result anyway :-D.

 

Why not using the Blemish Removal Tool or the Inpainting Brush Tool then ?

 

[Fixx]

I think those target smaller areas. I want just to diminish reddish skin areas and make then look like normal skin, not like irritated skin disease.

[HVDB Photography]

13 hours ago, Fixx said:

I think those target smaller areas. I want just to diminish reddish skin areas and make then look like normal skin, not like irritated skin disease.

 

It depends on the image but  the Selective colour adjustment could be an option !

 

 

[R C-R]

18 hours ago, Fixx said:

I want just to diminish reddish skin areas and make then look like normal skin, not like irritated skin disease.

If you have not already seen it, the Nature Portrait (Affinity Photo) video tutorial (on YouTube or Vimeo) may give you some ideas about how to do this while maintaining natural looking results. Obviously, this would take a lot more work than the techniques that targets large areas but those techniques are typically the ones that produce unnatural looking skin textures, as if someone had applied a thick, concealing layer of pancake makeup to the subject. 

[Fixx]

8 hours ago, HVDB Fotografie said:

It depends on the image but  the Selective colour adjustment could be an option !

 

It looks about the same as HSL adjustment. Same targeting, adjustment just modifies colour components instead of hue&saturation&darkness. 

[Fixx]

4 hours ago, R C-R said:

If you have not already seen it, the Nature Portrait (Affinity Photo) video tutorial (on YouTube or Vimeo) may give you some ideas about how to do this while maintaining natural looking results. Obviously, this would take a lot more work than the techniques that targets large areas but those techniques are typically the ones that produce unnatural looking skin textures, as if someone had applied a thick, concealing layer of pancake makeup to the subject. 

I guess I should look that video, but generally I am not aiming to do beautification techniques, just diminish reddish tones in the skin.

[IanSG]

38 minutes ago, Fixx said:

I guess I should look that video, but generally I am not aiming to do beautification techniques, just diminish reddish tones in the skin.

One of the points made in that video is that tonal adjustments should be made to the low frequency part of the image.  This video is worth watching as well.