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Saturation Adjuster

Adjust colour intensity, with vibrance for skin-safe boosts.

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Quick Tool Overview

The Saturation Adjuster includes vibrance, which is the control that stops boosted photographs producing orange faces. Vibrance raises muted colours hard and already-saturated ones barely at all, and protects the hue range skin occupies. Hue rotation is there too, for warming or cooling a whole image at once.

What it does
Adjusts colour intensity and hue
You give it
A flat or over-saturated photo
You get back
A version with the colour rebalanced
Best for
Landscapes, product shots and portraits
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About the Saturation Adjuster

Saturation raises every colour equally, which is why a boosted photograph so often ends up with orange faces: skin is already the most saturated thing in most portraits.

Vibrance is the control that solves it. It raises muted colours a lot and already-saturated ones barely at all, and protects the hue range skin occupies, so a landscape gets its punch without the people in it turning to plastic. Both are here, along with a hue rotation for shifting the whole palette, and the histogram-free live preview makes the difference between them obvious within a couple of seconds of dragging.

Key features of the Saturation Adjuster

Vibrance as well as saturation

Lifts the muted colours and leaves the strong ones alone, which is why landscapes gain punch without faces turning orange.

Skin tone protection

The hue range skin occupies is deliberately held back, so portraits survive a boost that would otherwise ruin them.

Hue rotation

Shift the whole palette around the wheel — small amounts warm or cool an image, large amounts go deliberately unnatural.

Full desaturation too

Drag to zero for a quick monochrome, with the dedicated converter linked for a considered conversion.

Instant preview

The difference between saturation and vibrance is obvious within seconds of dragging both.

How to use the Saturation Adjuster

  1. 1

    Load the photo

    Landscapes and product shots are the usual candidates.

  2. 2

    Reach for vibrance first

    It lifts the flat colours and leaves the already-strong ones and skin alone.

  3. 3

    Use saturation sparingly

    Small amounts. Watch faces and red objects, which clip first.

  4. 4

    Try a hue shift

    Rotating the hue slightly can warm or cool a whole image at once.

Frequently asked questions

Saturation raises every colour by the same amount. Vibrance raises muted colours much more than saturated ones and protects skin tones, so it is the safer control on anything with people in it.

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