The new B&W Color Pop Guided Edit works pretty well and is easy to use. You can select from preset color ranges - red, yellow, blue or green - or select colors within the image and refine the range. The last is a simple black and white conversion in which you can select four intensities, two lighter and two darker, plus a contrast control.ī&W Color Pop is similar to the selective color filter available on digital cameras in which you select a color while the rest of the image gets desaturated. The new Guided Edits are all for black and white effects: B&W Color Pop, B&W Selection and Black and White. So I'd expect a preset called Flash, and/or a way to control directional luminance (call it 'light source,' for example) rather than just generic brightness. For instance, one problem you run into frequently is that the light sources usually are coming from different directions, or one photo was shot with flash and the other wasn't.

The control sliders - Luminance, Contrast, Temperature and Saturation - not only don't match the parameters you want to adjust, but don't really strike me as the appropriate tools for the Quick editor in this program.

I admit to some disappointment with the last step, in which it tries to match the look of the two combined images.

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