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Adjusting vibrance in panoramic photos

Adjusting vibrance in panoramic photos

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Adjusting vibrance in panoramic photos

- An adjustment I love making is vibrance. Now some people are a school of thought that they like their images to not look overly saturated, but when it comes to vibrance this is selective saturation and it tends to be really easy to use to make things like the sky pop, lets see how it works. Lets talk about saturation versus vibrance. The traditional HSL adjustment has a simple saturation slider, however its very easy to overdo things and you see the colors become posterized or crushed. Instead of this adjustment, use the vibrance adjustment and it has its own saturation slider that applies to all colors but is much more gentle. You notice that even maximizing it, while it looks artificial, hasn't produced in that crushed color effect. Now what I'm going to do actually is tone down the global saturation, making this look a little bleaker but then use the vibrance slider to fill things in. What I like about this is you'll notice that vibrance targets the colors that need the most…

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