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The color selected by a color point is the average color over the area it covers, so by
using a smaller point size you can control this color more accurately.

Enhancing different colors
As described above, when you are trying to select a color in your photo you can click as
many times as you want to keep extending the selection. Each point appears in red to
show it is selected and is part of the same color selection. But what if you want to start
selecting a different part of your photo so you can apply different enhance settings to
that? For example, after adjusting the sky you may want to start work on another part of
the picture.

To start a new color selection, you first need to deselect the first color selection you’ve
been working on. Do this by right-clicking on one of the red color points and choosing
"DESELECT" from the context menu, or just press the Escape key. Now you see the color
selection points you’ve already added are shown in black instead of red. This shows you
they are no longer selected.

Now you can start clicking again on a different part of your photo and new red points
appear. This is a new color selection and you can extend and adjust it just as you did for
the first, then start enhancing it.

So now you have two separate color selections. To modify or extend either of them, just
click on one of the points. All the points in that color selection turn red to show that color
selection is selected. Clicking on the photo will add more points to that current color