After contacting support about this problem, William suggested I post it here as a request.
I have a couple of scans of old photos (jpgs) taken at different times and different locations/backgrounds and one of them is faded and has a magenta colour cast. Since they both show the same prize winning horse, I would like to give it a consistant look. The different backgrounds mean that Match Look does not work very well on the overall images but since I have the horse in each image, masked and on its own layer, I was wondering if it is possible to get Match Look just to work on the selected layers.
I understand this is not the case at present but having Match Look match specified Layers would be useful.
This is something you can already do, even if it's a bit convoluted. Let me give you the step by step:
The first thing I would do is create a mask for the horse, no need to apply adjustments to it
Then I would use Match Look, making sure to apply it on a separate layer
Then if you right click on your match look layer, you will have the option to "Copy mask from", in which you can choose your horse mask
That's it! Now you have a layer with the adjustments from match look but the mask for the horse. You can delete your original horse mask because it doesn't contain any adjustments.
You can repeat that process for any part of the image you want to mask
Hi Michael,
This is something you can already do, even if it's a bit convoluted. Let me give you the step by step:
The first thing I would do is create a mask for the horse, no need to apply adjustments to it
Then I would use Match Look, making sure to apply it on a separate layer
Then if you right click on your match look layer, you will have the option to "Copy mask from", in which you can choose your horse mask
That's it! Now you have a layer with the adjustments from match look but the mask for the horse. You can delete your original horse mask because it doesn't contain any adjustments.
You can repeat that process for any part of the image you want to mask
Let me know if it helps!