- In this movie, I'll show you how to adjust
the saturation of an image using an
adjustment layer known as vibrance.
So where this image is concerned,
I need to increase the saturation of the colors,
and you can do so either by dropping down to
the black and white circle at the bottom of the layers panel
and choosing the Vibrance command,
or if you want to name the layer as you create it,
go ahead and bring up the adjustments panel here
and press the alt key or the option key on the Mac
and click on this last icon in the top row,
the one that looks like a V.
And that will bring up the new layer dialogue box
at which point you can name the layer anything you want,
I'm calling mine saturate, and then go ahead and click OK.
Now notice that we have two sliders right here,
I'm going to go ahead and move this fish over
a little bit so we can keep track of him.
The saturation slider allows you to increase
the saturation of all the colors inside the image
and as a result, we're making the
image look quite garish indeed.
Or you can reduce the saturation
of all the colors, and if you take that saturation value
all the way down to -100, you're going to end up
with a grayscale image, as we're seeing here.
Alright, I'm going to go ahead and set the saturation
value to zero so we can see vibrance.
Now what vibrance does, is it saturates colors
according to their needs, so if we're working with
low saturate colors in the first place,
then cranking up vibrance will increase the
saturation of those low saturation colors.
So anything that starts low saturation
will become more saturated.
Compare that to what happens if
I go ahead and zero out this value
and I crank up the saturation value for a moment
and then I take the vibrance value down,
I am now reducing the vibrance of the most saturated colors.
And notice that just leaves the
least saturated colors in place.
So let me go ahead and take saturation
down to zero, and I'll leave vibrance at -100 for a moment
and I want you to notice this detail right there.
See, this little yellow detail.
Notice when I increase the vibrance value
all the way to +100, it remains unchanged
and that's because it is the least
saturated color inside this image.
So where this image is concerned,
I ultimately decided to crank the vibrance value
all the way up to +100 because in real life
this is a very colorful fish, and I took
the saturation value up to +30.
And so while the colors are looking
pretty darn garish, they're actually very accurate as well.
And now I'll go ahead and hide the Properties panel,
and I'll press ctrl + 0 or cmd + 0 on the Mac
in order to center the image on-screen.
Alright, now if you want even more saturation,
then here's another trick you might try.
Go up to the Edit menu and choose Assign Profile.
And what Photoshop is going to do
is grouch at you about how this is going to
change the appearance of the image.
That's what we want, so go ahead and click OK, and then
go ahead and select this Profile radial button right there,
and the profile we're looking for is Adobe RGB (1998).
And now notice, if I turn the Preview checkbox off,
this is the way the image looked
before we assigned the profile,
and this is the way it looks now.
So we're adding just a little bit of a panache
of saturation there, at which point I'll go ahead
and click OK in order to accept that change.
Alright, now let's say we want to correct an image
that has a little bit too much saturation.
I'll go ahead and switch over to this image right here.
And notice that this woman's face
looks just too darn orange.
So what I'm going to do is bring up
my adjustments panel once again,
and then I'll alt + click or option + click
on the vibrance icon, and I'll just
call this layer skintones, let's say, and click OK.
And now notice that I could increase the vibrance
if I wanted to, to make her face even more orange,
but what I want to do is take that vibrance value down
and notice, if I take it all the way down to -100,
we still have some colors left over,
these low saturation colors in the background.
But we've removed just about all
the saturation from the model's face.
Now that's a cool effect but it's not really what I want,
so I'm going to go ahead and take that vibrance value
up to let's say, -20, in order to produce
this more subtle effect right here.
And then I'll hide the Properties
panel to get it off screen.
And just so we can see what we've done,
I'll turn that vibrance layer off for a moment,
this is the original version of the photograph
and then if I turn it back on,
this is the image as it appears with more natural skintones.
And that's how you use the vibrance adjustments layer.
Either to slightly desaturate an image, or to
crank the saturation values through the roof right here,
and I'll just demonstrate what a difference it makes.
This is the original version of that photograph,
and this is how it appears now
thanks to our ability to magnify saturation values
using a vibrance adjustment layer, here, inside Photoshop.