- Adjust the Vibrance and Saturation values. Choose
Image→Adjustments→Vibrance to bring up a dialog box with
just two sliders: Vibrance, which elevates low-saturation colors
more than high ones, and Saturation, which increases saturation
across the board without harming luminance levels. (In contrast,
Hue/Saturation’s Saturation option may lighten or darken an
image.) Raise the Vibrance value to 80 and Saturation to 30. - Click OK. Okay, so maybe the result in Figure 6-20 is a little
over the top, but it does bear witness to what you can do with
saturation. (It is a treehouse, after all.) The once natural-looking
wood now radiates a yellowish glow, which—if you ask me—
suits the eerie mood of the piece perfectly. But whatever you
think of my aesthetics, one thing’s for sure: The result is almost
unbelievably more colorful than the original.
Figure 6-20.PeaRl Of WISDOmNever once in this exercise do I ask you to change
the Hue/Saturation’s Lightness value. And for
good reason—it’s rarely useful. The Lightness
value changes the brightness of highlights,
shadows, and midtones by compressing the
luminosity range. Raising the value makes black
lighter while fixing white in place; lowering it
affects white without harming black. Levels,
Curves, and Shadows/Highlights produce much
better results.
OriginalColors Unleashed194 Lesson 6: Adjusting Color and Luminance