Saturation adjustment
Changing the intensity of colour in your images.
The techniques
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Colour Intensity
Sometimes the colour in an image is too strong or weak for the picture we want to create. The sunset picture here does not have the deep colours that I saw. This is almost certainly due to the auto white balance feature of the camera, which has attempted to produce a more 'neutral' feel.
Open the image Saturation.jpg
Rotate and Zoom out to view the whole picture.
We need a new adjustment layer for the colour
Raising the saturation brings the colours more up to how you might remember them.
You might wish to add a levels layer to further enhance the image.
The adjustment also allows you to specify a range of colours ('master' refers to the whole image)
This allows you to selectively alter just a range of colours (such as blues and oranges for the sky)
A simple adjustment to the colour saturation gives a much more faithful rendition. Since we have used a layer, we could also include a levels adjustment layer, and tweak both to get the image how we want.
The techniques
The sample images for these tutorials are available for download as a zipped folder.
Please note. The images in this tutorial section are for personal non commercial teaching use only. If you are a school or other public educational establishment, you may use them as long as you inform Northlight Images of the use. They may not be used in -any- other way without the express consent of Northlight Images - see our usage and copyright page for more information.
Feedback is always welcome! ---
Northlight Images also provides commercial photography training courses for businesses, including specialist Photography training for Estate Agents and for Product Photography.
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