The Best Technique to Enhance Saturation

Step 12

Make sure that you have the layer mask for the layer group selected. Click on the layer mask with the black thumbnail in the Layers palette to select it. Then, select the brush tool from the toolbar and set the hardness to 0%. This will adjust the brush so that it has a very soft edge.

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Remember in the previous step when we asked you to decide which areas look better with the Hue/Saturation technique? Paint those areas with the brush tool. You can quickly increase or decrease the brush size by pressing the “[" or "]” keys on your keyboard.

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Final Results

Here are the final results comparing the original image and three different saturation increasing techniques. The Photoshop technique used in this Photoshop tutorial uses both the Hue/Saturation and LAB Color techniques. It also uses an adaptive saturation technique to restore details that can be hidden if the saturation is too high.

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Written by admin on February 29th, 2008 with 13 comments.
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Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Arun
#1. March 2nd, 2008, at 12:36 AM.

Thank you; very detailed, clear, precise and useful tutorial!

Please do more!

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#2. March 2nd, 2008, at 7:28 AM.

Sweet tutorial, thanks for the submission on tutorial-effect.net

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#3. March 2nd, 2008, at 9:03 AM.

Thats cool tut, keep it up!
Definitely come back !

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#4. March 3rd, 2008, at 4:59 PM.

nice model =)

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#5. March 4th, 2008, at 12:04 AM.

Very smart tutorial! You are talented. Thanks!
DanC.

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#6. March 12th, 2008, at 10:53 AM.

Good tutorial. Thx.

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#7. March 13th, 2008, at 3:22 PM.

very useful tutorial! I learned a lot from this. Thanks!

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#8. March 23rd, 2008, at 1:19 PM.

ok, but it’s just me, but i like the original.
sorry, but there is too much over-processing of everything these days!

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#9. April 4th, 2008, at 9:48 AM.

extremely useful tutorial, thanks m8;-)

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#10. July 21st, 2008, at 5:05 PM.

hi

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#11. October 10th, 2008, at 12:14 PM.

Wow!! This is a nice and very fast effect. Thank you very much!

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#12. October 28th, 2008, at 4:59 PM.

Well said.

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Natalya
#13. December 19th, 2008, at 10:57 PM.

It’s the second time I’m trying this tutorial, and it just does NOT work! After I do “reveal all” (and I need to go to layer mask, rather than “adjustment later”, to find it) and change the blending mode to “difference”, my layer just goes black. I am not a novice at photoshop, I can follow directions, and it’s not like I can’t find something, it’s just that when I do it step-by-step, one step does not work! I’m guessing it might have something to do with the fact that I appear to have a different version of Photoshop, but shouldn’t blending mode “difference” do the same thing in all versions? Very strange. If anyone can enlighten me, obviously, I’m the only one with that problem?
Also, it would have been nice if you actually used a picture that did need a saturation boost. As it is, the tutorial does not give you the feel for what you can do at all - I don’t need orange skin, thank you very much. Couldn’t you desaturate an image and then saturate it to show how it would become better? It’s like if I was trying to show color corrected by using an image with the perfect color balance, and ended up with a red or blue cast… True, the steps might all be there (even though I’m not so sure), but if I cannot judge what results you’re getting, it’s hard to know if I’m getting the results I’m supposed to get!

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