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Hue, Saturation, and "Vibrance"

Hue, Saturation, and "Vibrance" - Photoshop Tutorial

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Hue, Saturation, and "Vibrance"

- If you read the name of this movie before it started playing, you'll see that it includes three words. The first is hue, which is the essential color, be it red, cyan, what have you. The second is saturation which is how colorful that color is. And the third is vibrance, which appears in quotes in my title because outside of Photoshop, it's not actually a word. So let's break it down with the help of our helpful color wheel. Hue is expressed by the way perimeter of the wheel, the outside edge. So red, orange, yellow, and so forth. Saturation goes from the middle, the various shades of gray to super vivid colors around the outside edge. And so, all very well and good, but what is vibrance? Again, not actually a word, there's vibrant, which is pulsating with vim and vigor, much like me. There's vibrancy, which is the state of being vibrant, much like me. But vibrance, that rhymes with prance or chance or trance,…

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