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  • How can we get Photoshop’s selective color into Premiere?

    Posted by Duke Eastwood on July 25, 2026 at 7:06 pm

    Today I realized how much of an asset it would be to simply have selective color IN premiere; I google this and see half a dozen people who seem to think that the color curves in Premiere can do the same thing… if you don’t realize they can’t just take my word for it, THEY CAN’T! If you don’t understand that they are radically different you’re not experienced enough of an editor to comment, if you don’t think they are different why do you think Resolve (as bad as it is) is the colorists choice for color grading. Photoshops selective color is unequivocally better at being able to target the whites and the blacks than ANYTHING in Premiere… so WHY isn’t it in Premiere? It’s insane to me; where are the third part plugins that do this SIMPLE function? Does anyone have any idea how to carry over something like this effect into a plugin that will work in Premiere?

    Daniel Fletcher replied 2 days, 15 hours ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Daniel Fletcher

    August 17, 2026 at 5:35 pm

    you can get close to what you are looking for with a secondary color adjustment in the lumetri panel by creating an additional lumetri effect and making and refining then adjusting an HSL selection. you can stack lumetri effects on a clip. Its called “The HSL Secondary tool” it functions a bit differently than to tools in Photoshop obviously but has similar “masking/selection” capabilities, the trouble you’ll run into when compared to working with stills is that the resolution and color info of video limits some of the sharply refined selections you may be used to.

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