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Use the Saturation slider to make colors more vivid or more muted. A good use of this adjustment would be to add
a color punch to a landscape by adding saturation to all the colors, or to tone down a distracting color, like a vivid
red sweater in a portrait.
Before and after adjusting color saturation
Use the Lightness slider in conjunction with the other adjustments to lighten or darken a portion of an image. Take
care not to use it on an entire image—this adjustment reduces the overall tonal range.
To change color saturation or hue
Do one of the following in the Editor:
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Choose Enhance > Adjust Color > Adjust Hue/Saturation.
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Choose Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Hue/Saturation, or open an existing Hue/Saturation adjustment layer.
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The two color bars in the dialog box represent the colors in their order on the color wheel. The upper bar shows the
color before the adjustment; the lower bar shows how the adjustment affects all hues at full saturation.
In the Edit pop-up menu, choose which colors to adjust:
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Choose Master to adjust all colors at once.
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Choose one of the other preset color ranges listed for the color you want to adjust. An adjustment slider appears
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between the color bars, which you can use to edit any range of hues.(See "To modify the range of Hue/Saturation
sliders" on page 138.)
For Hue, enter a value or drag the slider until the colors appear as you want.
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The values displayed in the text box reflect the number of degrees of rotation around the wheel from the pixel's
original color. A positive value indicates clockwise rotation, a negative value counterclockwise rotation. Values range
from -180 to +180.
For Saturation, enter a value or drag the slider to the right to increase the saturation or to the left to decrease it.
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Values range from -100 to +100.
For Lightness, enter a value or drag the slider to the right to increase the lightness or to the left to decrease it.
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Values range from -100 to +100. Use care when using this slider on an entire image. It will reduce the tonal range of
the overall image.
Click OK.
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