This one is a doosey!!

OK, there are times when you want to pep up an image with a boost of color, but Saturation does all the colors, or else you have to diddle around with 30% or this color, and 24% of that color, and 35% of another color... and it's tedious.
That's what most editors do... turn up the color knob!!

Qimage Ultimate does it better... albeit as close to perfect as can be.

It's Called: Smart Color Boost.

Basically, Mike has added a new button in the  SEL COLOR tab.
It is Smart Color Boost.

It's smart, very smart!  It checks your image and Smart Color Boost allows color boost to the various colors, but never allowing any color to over boost and CLIP. (blow out)
It also shows you a box with Check Marks,,,,  If you do not want a certain color boosted, just uncheck the colors boxes and Click OK.

By way of example, Many of my shots have blue sky and blue water.... (Can't help it! Sarasota Florida)  
So in my case, I don't want my sky or water to get lighter. I uncheck the "B" for Blue, and the "C" for Cyan.
Then I click OK.
Notice that the sky is the same in both images.

It is automated to let us finally make use of Sel Color.

Remember, I told everyone that there were only two people in the world who could work SEL COLOR with comfort. Einstein Died, and the other person is Mike.
Now we all can enjoy it.
You can still tweak numbers if you wish...
See the attached snaps.
You can see what Smart Color Boost did, with just a click or two. Have fun!!

Remember three factoids.... even though this feature's changes are saved as a filter, each image is scanned individually so it isn't a good idea to use APPLY TO ALL in the queue.
Factoid two... This is a beautiful feature which allows us to pop some life into an image that can use some vitamins, with attention to the image quality.
You don't have to use it on EVERY image. It is a tool! Like Levels, or Curves...
Factoid three!
Use this feature before you might want to use Levels or curves...  
 

Fred

I was hoping a few more people would have tried and commented on this new feature  
I've spent  some time trying it out on different images and it is certainly a very useful feature.
It's not appropriate for every image, as always it's a matter of personal taste. Sometimes the effect is quite subtle, on others it is more dramatic. It seems to be good where there are dark areas in an image that need a boost.
See 2 examples of before (on right) & after (on left) attached below.
Small adjustments were made to some of the row values in the Select Colour matrix - it would be nice if Mike gave us a quicker way of changing those values - and some contrast increase was made with a curve.
EDIT. I've now added screen shots of the Sel Col tables.
Note the changes to blue and cyan for the country pub scene to darken and add contrast to the sky and a reduction in the yellow row for the statue. Powerful tool this Sel Col! 

Terry

Hi Jeff,
That is correct, Fred did mention that in an earlier post.
Have fun 
Terry

Hi Tony,
Following any raw refine operations and if it seems that the image needs further enhancement in the editor, the the first step to would be to check out SCB.
However, remember that not every image will benefit from SCB.
Any existing edits for levels, contrast, brightness, curves and saturation must be removed first.

It's a quick operation to check out SCB on any image but some points to note:
Un-tick blue and cyan when there is a blue or even grey sky so that is not lightened.
If a particular colour is affecting the amount of SCB applied, ie. it's already very bright, then click the SCB button again and un-tick that colour; note that all colours will be reset with a tick.
You can set a colour row back to 1.0 by clicking the colour letter, R, G,... etc. but that is not the same as starting again and un-ticking in the SCB dialogue.
It's worth spending a little time experimenting with a few images.
Following any SCB changes, carry on as normal with other adjustments in the editor.
Terry

Jeff,
Been there, done that! 
Terry

Here are the other two snaps.

Tony,
I also said "It's not appropriate for every image, as always it's a matter of personal taste. Sometimes the effect is quite subtle, on others it is more dramatic."
No you cannot do that because all you are doing is copying the same Select Colour table to every image. SCB is more sophisticated that you think - it examines and processes each image individually so each image must be considered on it's own merits.
It may be possible with very similar shots taken in the same lighting conditions and of the same subject, that is all.
I think  revision of work flow is required here, putting on my process optimisation hat   (ex Pro Engineer and all that), I would say you need to make use of the QU rating feature and reduce the number of image you show to clients. Pick the ones that are good technically and you know the client is likely to want, process those properly and then shown him relatively few samples. I'm sure a client would not want to look at 100's of images or would get confused. Or, merely use camera jpeg's and let the camera do the processing for you.
 Terry

Let me try again.

"As Terry knows I have been concerned that too many of my shots needed manual Fill in the Raw Refinement mode. Interestingly the sequence with the SCB at 2.15 hardly contained any that needed extra RAW fill. It would be lovely to know why.

Terry said one should use SCB before making any changes to levels, saturation, etc. I had not realised that. I always add some DFS and Contrast 10+ to every shot and I did this before I ran the SCB. Is this why Wednesday I get 1.15 and Thursday I get 2.45 and then 2.15?

I am trying to learn how this SCB works.

Tony