Adobe’s Target Adjustment tool has a serious problem because no one agrees on its name. It is present in several windows, but in each one it has a different name. Maybe this is the reason why no one really knows it and does not make it one of the most used tools in Photoshop and Lightroom.
I do not know if it is due to a translation problem or because of the bad relationship between the different Adobe teams, but it is very strange that the name of this useful tool that we find in Adobe photographic programs never coincides:
- In Camera RAW it is called Tool Point curve target fit or from Tone, depending on the panel in which we are.
- In Lightroom it is known by the attractive name of Adjust Point Curve by dragging on photo or Adjust hue, saturation, luminance by dragging in photo.
- In Photoshop, in the window Curves, it is Click and drag on the image to modify the curve.
- Also in Photoshop we can find it in the layer Hue / Saturation and it’s called Click and drag the image to change the saturation. Press Ctrl and click to modify the pitch.
I’m sure I forget more places where this handy tool changes the name (now I remember that in the Black and White adjustment layer also appears). What I do not understand is that his name is not unified. Ribbon it’s the same everywhere, Curves, Levels…
The function is always the same, adapted to each of the windows in which it is, so the best thing to do is see what it is for and agree on a name among all so that we know what we mean.
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The Adobe Target Adjustment tool
I think that from the title you can see what is the name that I would like to be popularized among Spanish speakers, but I don’t think it will happen. Besides, it would not be entirely correct … if at all Setting at the destination, but it sounds like a tablecloth movie.
And what does it do? Simply Fine-tune any tool it is associated with by simply clicking and dragging over a specific area of the photo.
It is very practical in all the adjustment layers and functions in which we can find it. For example, in Curves it is becoming my favorite:
- We activate the tool in the window Curves.
- We click on the tool Target setting.
- We click on the image in the area that we want to lighten or darken and slide the mouse in one direction or another. Also in the Curve You can see exactly how bright it is in that area, which allows us to be extremely precise.
And so we can act with this tool in any window that we find it. It is a direct adjustment with another added problem … If you have started looking for it, you will realize that there are two versions to represent it:
- A hand pointing at an arrow with two meanings.
- A point with a concentric circle.
I do not know what is the reason for so much confusion, but I am sure that if they agree in the Adobe offices this tool would gain integers and would be much more recognized in the universe of Adobe development.