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<blockquote data-quote="Slipperman" data-source="post: 188235" data-attributes="member: 14707">if anybody here is a D5100 owner and has used the selective color retouch option you'll know that you have the option to select up to 3 colors that you don't want included in the conversion to greyscale. pretty easy and it seems all colors close to the selected ones also get excluded. does anybody know if this algorithm/method is used in the same way in any of the popular editing programs like Lightroom, Photoshop, Gimp, etc. the only tutorials i could find for Gimp only allow you to select a single color and you have to use layers and brushes which is kind of limiting not to mention time consuming. i was thinking there might be some kind of masking function that takes up to 3 colors and excludes those during the conversion to greyscale. seems like there would be.also, i just downloaded Lightroom 5 (demo) to see what it does but it doesn't seem to do much. of course i could be missing a few menu items/functions but in any case would you say that one would need maybe 2 or 3 different software programs to do everything they want or is one program usually just fine? ie: what do you own and what do you use it for?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Slipperman, post: 188235, member: 14707"] if anybody here is a D5100 owner and has used the selective color retouch option you'll know that you have the option to select up to 3 colors that you don't want included in the conversion to greyscale. pretty easy and it seems all colors close to the selected ones also get excluded. does anybody know if this algorithm/method is used in the same way in any of the popular editing programs like Lightroom, Photoshop, Gimp, etc. the only tutorials i could find for Gimp only allow you to select a single color and you have to use layers and brushes which is kind of limiting not to mention time consuming. i was thinking there might be some kind of masking function that takes up to 3 colors and excludes those during the conversion to greyscale. seems like there would be. also, i just downloaded Lightroom 5 (demo) to see what it does but it doesn't seem to do much. of course i could be missing a few menu items/functions but in any case would you say that one would need maybe 2 or 3 different software programs to do everything they want or is one program usually just fine? ie: what do you own and what do you use it for? [/QUOTE]

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