The “Saturation change”

Another way to adjust the “Saturation” and “Hue”, is by means of the knob “Saturation Change”. Well that knob is not called that actually, but because it has no name, I have given this to it.
This button is new since Photoshop CS4 and we find it in the dialog “Hue / Saturation”.

To use, select it first in the dialog, and then click and drag it to the color in the photo for which you want to increase or decrease the saturation.

You use the same button to adjust the hue of a color in the picture.

But you need to hold the Ctrl key on your keyboard pressed.

The option “Vibrance”

Also new since Photoshop CS4 is the “Vibrance”.

With this option, we adjust the saturation so that we crop the colors as little as possible, as the colors can be completely saturated. With this adjustment, the saturation of less saturated colors are more elevated than that of colors that are already saturated.

Vibrance also prevents skin tones to become saturated.

To apply this option, click the “Image” in the menu bar, choose “Adjustments” in the drop-down menu, and click “Vibrance …”

Or when you’re working with adjustment layers, you will find this button in the “Adjustments” panel, first button in the second row.

If you want to apply more adjustment to the less saturated colors and want to avoid trimming colors that reached total saturation, you can just drag the “Vibrance” slider to the right.

If you want to apply the same amount of saturation on all colors, regardless of their current saturation, you can just drag the Saturation slider.

If you want to decrease the saturation, you can just drag the “Vibrance” slider or the “Saturation” slider to the left.

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