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Adjusting saturation of an image

Adjusting saturation of an image - Photos for OS X Tutorial

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Adjusting saturation of an image

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- Let's move to talking about color, particularly in this case, saturation. We're going to switch albums and go back to the island of Curacao for some rich, Caribbean color. Let's switch to the album here Curacao, and I'm going to scroll down to this vibrant yellow, and we'll double click to open. I'll click the edit button and look at the image. I see that the overall exposure's pretty good, but let's click the auto button on the light there, and you see that it remapped the contrast nicely by pulling the blacks down a bit. Now we've got the overall slider for color. If you don't see the sliders below, this one slider's quite useful, allowing you to remove color or richen the color, but you see as you go through, it's not linear. It brings out different variations or options with this simple slider. If you expose the options here as you drag, you'll see how it changes the difference here between saturation and color…

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