ACR 13 Changes

[JimFox]

So it looks like Split Toning has been changed to be called Color Grading with a completely new interface?

Change is usually not fun and we usually resist it, but I have to say that Color Grading completely ruins Split Toning. I found the old way very easy to use and very intuitive.

Now if Split Toning still exists but has been moved to another menu tab, and anyone has seen it, I would be forever grateful to find it.

I have tried to Google it, but the update must be too new to have any search results.

 

[Jameel Hyder]

Indeed color grading is the new way and replaces split toning. See more here

https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2020/10/20/introducing-color-grading.html#gs.j82pdp

Here is an excerpt from the blog.

You’ve probably noticed that Split Toning is gone; it’s been replaced by Color Grading. But don’t worry: Color Grading is 100% compatible with the old Split Toning. Color Grading is an extension of Split Toning — it can do everything Split Toning did, plus much more. Your existing images with Split Toning settings will look exactly the same as they did before, your old Split Toning presets will also still look the same when you apply them, and you can still get the same results if you had a familiar starting point when doing Split Toning manually. We’ll explore the details in the “Split Tone Compatibility” section below.

 

[AlanLichty]

There is a short tutorial for this in Lightroom Classic that might help with this:

Adobe tutorial

I am just looking now as well at it since ACR and Lightroom track each other for upgrades/updates.

 

[JimFox]

Hmmm, Split Toning had a Saturation Slider this new Color Grading has a Luminosity slider (i think). So not sure how it could be the same. I will read the links, thanks for finding it.

I will say from playing with it earlier, it sure didn’t seem to have the same results for me.

 

[AlanLichty]

I played around with it a bit on some shots I took this morning but would prefer to be at home with a bigger screen to really be able to sense what I am doing with it.

Saturation is how far you yank the pin out towards the outer edge of the circle. If you watch the small print just above the circle when you move the pin it shows you the HSL values for each movement. L does not change since you control it from the slider below. Movoing the pin to the outer edge shows saturation at 100% with hue at whatever place around the circle you are.

 

[JimFox]

I played around with it a bit on some shots I took this morning but would prefer to be at home with a bigger screen to really be able to sense what I am doing with it.

Saturation is how far you yank the pin out towards the outer edge of the circle. If you watch the small print just above the circle when you move the pin it shows you the HSL values for each movement. L does not change since you control it from the slider below. Movoing the pin to the outer edge shows saturation at 100% with hue at whatever place around the circle you are.

Interesting. I guess I just need to get used to it. I am guessing this is going to be more powerful, but I really liked the simplicity of just having 2 sliders from before.

 

[Jeffrey]

Maybe someone can give me a good example of what this control does?

 

[JimFox]

Maybe someone can give me a good example of what this control does?

Unless someone beats me to it, so will try later.

I have used it as a way to help nudge faint sunset or sunrise colors. Or I have used it when the highlights in the sky get washed out as you can then add some color to the highlights. The 3rd way I have used it is to warm up an image a bit where it was too cool. You can warm up an image with the White Balance adjustment, amd I do that too, but Splt Toning was a more subtle way of warming up.

I would be curious if others had other uses for it.