Photoshop Saturation Settings Tutorial

Video Transcript

"Adobe Photoshop is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated and I am in no way affiliated with Adobe. Alright, for this image I'm going to show you guys how saturation works. Well, saturation is usually the third thing I do when I start working on an image. As you can see the shortcut for saturation is command U or control U on a PC. So, here's my saturation toolbox. Saturation basically gives you the ability to add color as you can see to your image. So, I have an image here that was not too dark, not too bright to begin with as far as saturation goes. But, I really want to boost the saturation just to make it pop out just a little bit. So, that's pretty much where I like it. And the reason why it's so high is because I actually brought down the saturation just for this tutorial. Usually I just bring my saturation up maybe plus ten, not too much more. I try not to go too crazy on my saturation. You can actually change certain areas of your saturation. Say the red is too much. You can actually click on your red, hit this plus sign where I just hit right there. You can here and sample a red out of this. As you can see I'm using the picker. Picking the red and then I can bring down the saturation just on the house itself. As you can see just the house and whatever isn't red turned black and white. So, this is kind of one way people kind of get that inverse color effect on some pictures. And say for instance I thought my green is way too saturated. I can click on that. I would change this to green and I could bring down my saturation on just my greens. Although, I'm sorry, I had to pick my green first. Now I click this little dabber and I click on the green. Now bring down my saturation and just my greens are going to go away as you can see right there. It's kind of like that inverse look that people love, but it's also a way to tone down certain areas that are a little oversaturated. So, basically this is the way you use saturation and you can also mess with the lightness here, but I never do that, or the hue if you want to change the hue, which I never really do that too much either. But, like say for instance, since the grass is picked at the moment. I could change just the color of the grass as you can see here. And the house and everything that is brown is not going to change which is kind of a cool thing. You know, you could do something like this where you actually touch on the blues. You hit blue, you click the plus picker. You go up here and sample the blue in the sky. Now what you want to do is change the hue of the sky. You can get yourself a nice purple sky or you can go a crazy looking red sky. You can play around with Photoshop and so what you like and mess around with stuff, but this is saturation the way I explained it and its fun to use and obviously it's awesome. So, here's my original right here, back to the original. And this is what I like to do and you guys can enjoy it and just don't go too crazy with saturation because it does bring a lot of noise if you go too wild. And it definitely will not print right. And that is it for saturation. Thanks."