As with the Color Balance command, Hue/Saturation
can be applied from the Image Adjustment menu or in
an adjustment layer. To shake things up, we’ll use the
menu version in the following exercise.
- Open an image. Open the file titled The
treehouse.tif in the Lesson 06 folder in-
side Lesson Files-PsCS5 1on1. Pictured
in Figure 6-16, I captured this image of a neigh-
bor’s thrillingly dangerous looking treehouse while
tramping with my boys through a dry streambed
near our home. I was nearly out of light, which is
partly why the photograph possesses little in the
way of apparent color. Luckily, I was armed with
a reasonably good camera—a Nikon D80—so al-
though the color is in short supply, it is there, just
waiting for us to draw it out. - Choose the Hue/Saturation command. Choose
Image→Adjustments→Hue/Saturation or press
the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+U (�-U) to display the
Hue/Saturation dialog box, shown in Figure 6-17. - Raise the Saturation value. Press the Tab key two
times to advance to the Saturation value. Then
increase the value to +90 percent. This radical ad-
justment increases the intensity of colors through-
out the photograph and turns what had formerly
been a nearly grayscale image into a vibrant and
colorful one. - Lower the Hue value. The sky looks pretty good,
but the wood of the trees and treehouse is too red.
My sense is that they would look better if they
were a bit more yellow. According to the color
wheel (see “The Visible-Color Spectrum Wheel,”
page 185), shifting the hues from red to yellow is a
counterclockwise rotation, which requires a posi-
tive adjustment. Press Shift+Tab to select the Hue
value. Then press Shift+� to increase the value
to +10 degrees, which removes the red tint, as in
Figure 6-18 on the next page.
Figure 6-16.Figure 6-17.Tint and Color 189