It is with excitement that I see we have a new color equalizer module in V4.7. I look forward to testing it out. What do we know about the advantages of this module over the color zones module?
The advantage is that it works in the scene referred part of the pipeline and thus is less prone to artifacts.
Does it replace color zones? For functionality, yes. But color zones will still be available if you prefer it.
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Doesn’t color zones still have a few features that color eq doesn’t?
Yes… but I’d still say mostly replaced.
I have removed my color-zone module and am very satisfied with the newcomer.
What features would these be?
I notice on images with fresh history its default position is scene-referred (before sigmoid/filmic), yet on edited images (with custom module order) its default position is after those modules. Not sure if this is a bug, or something about the custom order has upset its default position. That custom order was arranged before color eq was implemented.
Main one is that color zones allows you to select by hue, lightness, and chroma, whereas color equaliser is by hue only. Another one might be that color zones allows custom points, whereas color equalisers points are fixed.
Are you sure about this? There seems to be the same options of hue, saturation, brightness which would be equivalent to hue, lightness, and chroma in the color zones module.
I can probably live with that as the number of points is very generous.
I look forward to reading the manual when it is updated for this module.
See ‘select by’ drop down, which color eq doesn’t have.
Hue:
Lightness:
Chroma:
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Those images clarify what you mean. Is this something that would benefit the new module?
It still has some bugs to shake out but I am sure it will evolve with a few iterations…
I never use them. Some others like to use it in lightness mode to lift Chroma more in the shadows, but you can do things like that with colorbalance rgb.