From the course: Photoshop: Advanced Adjustment Layer and Blend Modes
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When to choose vibrancy over Hue/Saturation - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop: Advanced Adjustment Layer and Blend Modes
When to choose vibrancy over Hue/Saturation
- While saturation is a useful adjustment, sometimes I prefer the saturation command available in a different adjustment layer. The vibrance adjustment layer contains both vibrance and saturation. And they're both quite useful. Vibrance is a targeted saturation adjustment, which goes after the areas that need it most. And, while there's saturation here, it's saturation 2.0; it's a newer version and it doesn't suffer from some of the problems that the HSL adjustment layer does. Let me show ya. Now, we've been talking about the hue saturation adjustment layer and I like that as a targeted adjustment, but there is a cool effect that you should know about. Vibrance also has its own saturation adjustment and these behave quite differently. So if you enable hue saturation and crank saturation all the way up, you see that it produces some pretty artificial colors, where things really get posterized and flat. On the other hand, if I add a vibrance adjustment, you'll see it also has…
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Refining a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer with the On Image tool3m 21s
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Creating duotones with a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer2m 48s
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Recoloring artwork with a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer4m 38s
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When to choose vibrancy over Hue/Saturation2m 26s
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Using blending modes with Hue/Saturation4m 48s
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